Tag: #opinion
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 4 posts
In Emacs, everything looks like a service: reading the client-server lens onto the "Emacs is an OS" meme
A reflection on the essay "In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service" by Charles Choi. He flatly rejects the tired "Emacs is an operating system" comparison and offers a sharper picture: Emacs is a universal client, and
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #emacs#elisp#client-server#developer-tools#text-editorsGood tools are invisible: gingerBill on friction as a feature, and where "invisible" hides failure
A reflection on gingerBill's essay 'Good Tools Are Invisible,' which argues that a good tool disappears into the background and that reselling friction as a fun puzzle is a rationalization. I agree with his feeling-versu
2026-07-11 · 7 min read #tools#developer-experience#kubernetes#build-systems#editorsTools and Trends to Avoid in 2026 — A Curated Anti-Recommendation Deep Dive
A 2026 opinion piece on developer tools and trends that have aged badly — and the better choice that fills each gap. Not pure negativity: every AVOID is paired with an INSTEAD. From CRA, Moment.js, Yarn 1, Gulp, and loda
2026-05-14 · 21 min read #anti-pattern#tools-to-avoid#developer-tools#curation#retired-toolsAI Coding Assistant Limitations 2026 — An Honest but Fair Take on What Doesn't Work
AI coding assistants are powerful. But the shape of that power is not uniform. Deep bug debugging, large-codebase architecture, subtle performance regressions, concurrency correctness, genuinely new tech, multi-repo chan
2026-05-14 · 21 min read #ai-coding#ai-limitations#honest-take#ai-engineering#claude-code