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Four Lenses on Explanation→An eval can show that an AI agent failed. Four practical lenses can help explain why it failed, what the score missed, and what to fix next.2026 · 09 · 025 minaiagentsevalsexplanationagentic engineering Being instrumentalistic→If an oracle can give us every correct answer, is there still a reason to understand anything? AI makes an old question about knowledge feel newly personal.2026 · 08 · 315 minphilosophyaiknowledgelearningreflection The Outlet→What I have learned from training hard, writing freely, and choosing where my restlessness goes.2026 · 08 · 213 minreflectionmental healthwritingfitnessdeep work The Two Kinds of Silence→Awkward silence makes us fill the void. Mindful silence lets us stay with it. Both can happen alone or with another person.2026 · 08 · 122 minsilenceattentionpresencereflectionphilosophy Drifting→A missed goal is not always a failure. Sometimes the more useful question is what displaced it — and whether that trade was worth making.2026 · 08 · 105 mingoalsreflectionattentionworklife Agent Loop Engineering with Claude Code & Codex→AI made writing code fast. The harder problem now is everything around it — deciding what to build, keeping agents on track, reviewing the result, and earning enough confidence to ship.2026 · 08 · 046 minaiagentsclaude codecodexagentic engineeringdeveloper tools Take a Step Back→Flow gets all the press. But your brain has a second mode, and the hardest problems I've solved were never solved inside the tunnel — they were solved the moment I climbed out of it.2026 · 07 · 316 minfocusflowproblem-solvingaiengineeringlearningphilosophy Make Claude Speak→I stare at Claude Code ten hours a day. First I stopped typing to it. Now I've stopped reading it too — voicemode makes Claude talk back, fully local, and this is the short version of how.2026 · 07 · 302 minclaude codevoicedeveloper toolsaiworkflow Writing — Why I Stopped, and Why I Started Again→I stopped writing because I believed an idea had to be fully mine before I had the right to publish it. Two books, one borrowed word, and a simple bit of arithmetic later, I started again.2026 · 07 · 277 minwritingcreativityoriginalitylearningbooksphilosophy What and Why of explain-it→An agent skill that turns a review, a PR, or a subsystem into a small static HTML explainer site — a primer that builds the mental model first, then one page per topic with runtime stories, trimmed diffs, and quantified stakes.2026 · 07 · 253 minagent skillsclaude codecode reviewdeveloper toolsai Are You Living to Die, or Dying to Live?→Two ways to spend a life that look almost identical from the outside. One is a slow accidental death dressed up as living. The other is a series of small deliberate deaths that add up to a life.2026 · 07 · 247 minphilosophydeathattentionconsumptionidentity The Making of Tars 3.0→How we are rebuilding Tars from first principles — combining ten years of CX experience with a secure AI-native conversation engine, native live chat, multichannel infrastructure, and evaluations.2026 · 07 · 2112 mintarsaiconversational aicustomer experienceengineeringsecurity How I Avoid Brain Rot→I watched a video on doomscrolling and realized my daily system already has some defenses built in. Five habits — no notifications, no social apps, empty home screens, intentional friction, and protected focus.2026 · 07 · 174 minfocusattentionbrain rotminimalismhabits The Simple Science of Muscle Building→Two years of lifting, distilled into a simple map — every major muscle, its parts, and the two or three exercises that actually train each part. Written for beginners who feel lost in the gym.2026 · 07 · 179 minfitnessmuscle buildinggymbeginners Principles of Agentic Engineering→Everything I've learned about building AI agents in the past few years, distilled into nine principles — the loop, tools, context, memory, sub-agents, evals, observability, and guardrails.2026 · 07 · 1611 minaiagentsagentic engineeringllmsoftware engineering Why manual reviews are still relevant in the age of AI→We are generating more code than ever and reviewing less of it than ever. In this article, I share why offloading code reviews entirely to AI is a trap, what it silently costs us, and the workflow I believe in.2026 · 07 · 156 minaicode reviewsoftware engineeringdeveloper productivity Use Browser like a PRO !→Well, I like to keep things in Marie Kondo's way! Especially in the digital world, the more stuff is organized the more you have peace of mind. That's the primary reason I use Window Manager. I know e2023 · 01 · 082 minbrowsersproductivitylinuxdeveloperbrave Test Driven Development with React & Typescript using Vite→Recently I've been reading a book "Learning Test Driven Development" by Saleem Siddiqui. After reading a couple of chapters I wanted to try out TDD in practice. In this blog, we'll explore what is TDD2023 · 01 · 072 minreactvitetestingtypescripttesting library Deep Dive into HTML ( for beginners )→HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the foundation of the modern web. It allows us to create and structure content on the internet, giving meaning and structure to text, images, and other elements2023 · 01 · 054 minhtml5web developmentbeginner developerswebdev Building Typesafe components in React using Typescript→Building typesafe components in React is important for maintaining a healthy codebase and ensuring that your application is free of runtime errors. In this article, we will explore how to use the Type2023 · 01 · 033 mintypescriptreactweb development Installing Awesome WM on top of Minimal Ubuntu→After lot of distro hopping and using various DEs (desktop environments), I finally wanted to experience minimal and stable OS with some powerful and customizable window manager. I could have used min2022 · 07 · 234 minlinuxubuntudeveloper toolswindow managers Figma : From Developer's Lens→Being a developer, I love creating beautiful stuff for web. But that doesn't restrict me to explore other possible domain where I can create screens without even touching the code. I've been designing2022 · 07 · 223 minfrontend developmentfigmadesign 5 lessons about Tailwind CSS I learned recently→Recently at TARS, I've been tasked to work on Tars home page which is a NextJS project where I used tailwind to style components. Well to be honest, It's not the first time I used tailwindcss, infact2022 · 07 · 083 minweb developmentcsstailwind cssjavascriptreact 3 Security Myths, busted !→It's all exciting to build, deploy and ship web applications to millions of users but at the same time, one should be aware of the security flaws and holes in the application that could affect those s2022 · 06 · 263 minweb developmentsecuritywebsecurityjavascript Invalidate cache of Dependent Queries in React Query→One of my favourite library in React ecosystem is React-Query. If you don't know about it already, React-Query helps you to fetch, cache and manage server state in your react application. It is fully2022 · 06 · 182 minreactjavascriptfrontend developmentapis

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