Valand: Jobs, Salaries & Tech Stack (2026)

Overview

I am Alan — software/system engineer | cyberneticist | philosopher | part-time musician | netrunner. You can reach me at [email protected] or LinkedIn Done/doing some stuff and time at AccelByte, Actyx, UXStream, and Agoda, which inspires these logs and public works.

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Logos Not Found

Essence, reasoning, and optimization are universally relevant for serious software, with or without AI

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AI Limit, Social Divide

Exploring what's underneath LLMs, risks in knowledge and agency gap in the society, and the potential way to a better future

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News valand.dev 7 months ago

Dreamware, Judgeware, Actware

Do you know what separates us from dead things? It is our fight against the dying of the universe.

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News valand.dev 7 months ago

Free Stuff From Dissolving and Restitching Bounds

Think long life, get long life

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Convergence in Software

The problem isn't complexity. It's how we branch and never thought how to come back together.

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News valand.dev 2 years ago

We Must Talk About: Locality

...as the right word unlocks a whole new dimension for our thoughts.

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OOP Isn't Obsessed Enough About Time Control

Dog is an animal. Car is a vehicle. Why doesn't OOP ever talk about time control?

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News valand.dev 2 years ago

Control, In Itself, For You

When you run a program in your computer, a small slice of space and time in your device is under the programmer's control.

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News valand.dev 3 years ago

Systemic TypeScript Read more

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News valand.dev 4 years ago

Toward Robust

What I strongly feel to be the essence of robust after years of gory struggle for robustifying software, countless philosophical discussions, and meditations.

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