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This week, whilst troubleshooting video encoding discrepancies for a film, I was reminded of the immense wizard power of debugging: the art of systematically bisecting your way to the root cause of a problem, then devising the cleanest fix. This is an art that cannot be taught and which few professions lead you to learn. Even among those that do, such as computer programming, only the most diligent practitioners come to master it, because it is at once unnatural and primordial. We can be sure that many humans will never in their lives enact this discipline, but also that it is fundamental to our success as a species. ...

A sorcerer’s guide to wielding chaotic and powerful magicks.

Embracing the exponentials and vibecoding an entire 3D game in a few days with Aider, o3-mini, and Claude 3.7 sonnet.

Notes on the interconnection of generative AI’s two leading paradims.

The development stories and roadmap for Orbital, my physics-based 3D simulator for realistic orbital maneuvers that runs in your browser with WebGL and Three.js.

A byte-sized guide to developing your taste and agency at the world’s best programming retreat.

How I spent my 12 weeks at the Recurse Center annihilating my skill issues, shipping projects, and having fun.

How I learned Svelte and outsmarted Vercel to make a delightful frontend to OpenAI’s DALL-E … just for my mom.

Enter richify.py: a real-time Markdown rendering tool that supports streaming input. Built with Rich and shipped effortlessly with uv.

Links to the projects, games, blog posts, and tools I shipped in my 12 weeks at RC.