Writing
Essays, analyses and puzzles: one argued claim, a sourced verdict, or an open question worked in public.
2026
- Designing Out SNAP Fraud
- Five layers to tune before you fork your agent
- Dispatch #1: UI kit workflow: bốn bước từ setup đến implement
- Dispatch #2: handoff pattern: từ ảnh chụp app đến Figma và video demo
- Hide the MacBook notch: the 32-point fix for the macOS 27 menu bar
- What the Engelberg report got right about us
- Claude Code 2.1.259 turned our Read() deny rules into a Bash tripwire
- The debug loop: make the agent measure the browser before it touches the CSS
- DeepSeek Harness, dissected
- What stays valuable when anyone can build anything
- The tells
2025
- CAP breakdown
- Stagehand breakdown
- Context7 breakdown
- E2b breakdown
- Dify breakdown
- Maybe finance breakdown
- Umami breakdown
- Mem0 & Mem0-Graph breakdown
- Cline breakdown
- Ax framework breakdown
- Crawl4AI breakdown
- Zen MCP breakdown
- Better engineering
- Communication overhead in the agentic era
- Speed beats perfectionism in AI adaptation
- On agentic AI
- Engineers in the AI landscape: architects, tinkerers, planners, and the vibers
- Most engineers can't actually engineer
- What makes a strong engineer in the AI era
- Composing the future: an iron-clad analysis of AI agent architecture frameworks
- Strategic thinking behind our hiring
- Skillmaxing
- Vetting proven talents
- Scale smart: Grow big but stay research-first
- Client-side and agency-side
- Inefficiency arbitrage
- Consulting model
- Technology cycles
- Append-only concept embedding log
- Build a brain that never forgets
- Data flow in Brainery
- Database design and philosophy
- MCP authorization over SSE
- Building use-cases
- Promoting raw data to insight
- Access the brainery
- Architecture
- Market players
- Glue work
- Stating the obvious
- The convergence
- Building trust as an engineer
2024
- Salesforce use cases
- Yelp use cases
- #1 Coffee craftsmanship lessons for software engineering
- #2 Film production lessons for software engineering
- Design file-sharing system - part 2: permission & password
- Design file-sharing system - part 1: directory structure
- Pricing model: Bill by hours
- Vietnam tech ecosystem 2024 report
- Your last work is what counts