Jake Gold

Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices . They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers wanted to deploy on their own schedule, with clear ownership of their code, instead of waiting in one giant merge queue. For decades a smal

US residential proxies are the bane of the internet. They're the major source of social media manipulation and spam. A residential proxy runs someone else's traffic through a real home internet connection, so it looks like a normal person on Comcast or AT

For over 20 years, the meditative focus of programming has been one of the best parts of my job. Every week I'd spend countless hours in a flow state , which quiets the default mode network . The DMN is responsible for daydreaming/reflection but al...

The best coding model in the world is about to leave the Claude subscription, which rightly makes people nervous about affordable access to frontier models. Anthropic redeployed Claude Fable 5 on July 1, 2026. It stays in the flat Pro and Max subscription

There is a common Silicon Valley saying that "being early is the same as being wrong", which can be true but is usually misleading. For most products that invent a new category, "too early" is just a polite way to say users don't want the new category and

Qwen 3.6 27B (currently a popular model to run locally) ships on Hugging Face as 15 safetensors files totaling 56GB of BF16 floating point numbers, or as smaller quantized GGUF conversions. You download the weights, load them into an inference engine like

With all the obvious caveats about historical accuracy, one of my favorite uses for AI image generation is recreating historical scenes I've read about and imagined in my head again and again. Here are two, generated with Google's Nano Banana Pro ( gemini

Coding agents work by sending your prompt and files to a model's API over HTTP and receiving generated code and tool calls in return, including Bash scripts that execute on your machine. Coding agents give the model and API provider arbitrary code executi

The Claude and Codex TUI coding agents both render a status line at the bottom of the interface. Configuring Claude's status line works like configuring a shell prompt. The status line for Codex can only be configured to use a fixed set of built-in fields