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Articles & Tutorials
Write your Own Virtual Machine (35 minute read)
This literate tutorial builds an LC-3 virtual machine in about 250 lines of C, covering registers, memory, opcodes, traps, loading programs, and platform-specific input. It uses the compact 16-opcode architecture to make CPU execution and low-level language mechanics approachable.
Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search: A Developer Diary and Field Notes (18 minute read)
This field report breaks down the first stages of a production semantic code search pipeline, covering structure-aware chunking, chunk evaluation, and vectorization for large repositories. It explains why the system keeps all 4,096 embedding dimensions at one-bit precision for a 32-fold storage reduction, when 16-bit vectors are still needed, and how the design avoids storing source code on the server.
Why don't more developers βuse the platformβ? (9 minute read)
The case for using browser and platform primitives is strong, but history, familiar frameworks, uneven documentation, and the joy of building from scratch explain why developers keep reinventing them. AI coding could either favor smaller, platform-aware solutions or multiply custom code when agents accept the first workable draft.
Agents Don't Need Memory. They Need Documentation. (5 minute read)
Vector-search memory systems can surface similar snippets without proving that they are current, complete, or relevant. A structured Markdown workspace of specs, decisions, research, and instructions offers agents auditable context that can be consulted before work and updated afterward.
The 3 views an AI agent needs for full context (Sponsor)
Context isn't just a matter of what your company has. It's also a matter of how they relate to one another, and why they were built that way (and not another). In
this webinar, Uvi breaks down and shows you what it takes to make an agent context-aware.
Save your spotMailflare (GitHub Repo)
Mailflare is a self-hosted email and calendar workspace for custom domains that runs on Cloudflare or in Docker. It supports personal and shared mailboxes, routing rules, booking pages, AI-assisted search and drafting, MCP access, and delivery through services including Cloudflare Email Routing, Resend, and Amazon SES.
Vela (GitHub Repo)
Vela is a fast, extensible financial charting library with a headless core, native WebGL2 renderer, complete workspace, and plugin SDK. It includes more than 70 built-in studies, pluggable data providers and scripting engines, and extension points for custom chart types and renderer layers.
e2e (GitHub Repo)
e2e is an agent-driven end-to-end testing framework for web and mobile apps that combines natural-language actions with locators and assertions. Successful agent steps are recorded and replayed without model calls until the app changes, with support for Playwright browsers and mobile simulators.
What Meta Got Right With Muse (6 minute read)
Muse packages familiar agent capabilities behind a single consumer-friendly metaphor, hiding model choices, tool plumbing, and workflow modes behind one main chat. The argument is that Meta's ad business can subsidize generous usage while the product's approachable personality and branding make agentic AI easier for mainstream users to understand and adopt.
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken (6 minute read)
A former OpenAI safety report lead argues that frontier labs are moving too quickly for the risks they now face and need a deeper change in culture, not just more rules. The essay calls for redundancy and operational rigor borrowed from aviation and nuclear power, plus stronger safety science before more capable systems are built.
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