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The *arr Stack: How Self-Hosted Media Automation Actually Works
Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Seerr and friends: what each piece does, how they talk to each other, why hardlinks matter, and where the whole thing breaks.
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Thoughts, ideas, and things I'm learning.
32 posts
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Clear Signing: Teaching Wallets to Say What You're Signing
Why hardware wallets showed hashes for a decade, why decoding the ABI isn't enough, and how ERC-7730 descriptors, a public registry and auditor attestations are finally making transactions readable.
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Prediction Markets: What the Price Knows, and Who Decides What Happened
How prediction markets turn bets into probabilities, why the price is sometimes wrong, why the oracle is the real product, and how Trueo is trying to build the version Vitalik Buterin has been asking for.
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The Agentic Payments Stack: x402, MPP, AP2, ACP, and L402
Five protocols want to let AI agents pay for things. They turned out not to be competing — mostly. A map of who sits where, and which numbers you shouldn't trust.
11 min read
Multisig: What It Actually Protects You From
How multisig works on Bitcoin and Ethereum, why MPC isn't the same thing, and why the largest multisig theft in history didn't break a single signature.
13 min read
Where Randomness Actually Comes From
True RNG vs pseudorandom, how your machine actually collects entropy, why 100 dice rolls make a Bitcoin seed, and the three different things people mean when they say 'random'.
14 min read
Lightroom and Its Alternatives: The State of Photo Editing in 2026
Adobe owns the photo editing market. You don't have to let it own your wallet. A deep look at Capture One, DxO PhotoLab, Photomator, darktable, and the rest — who they're for, what they cost, and whether they can actually replace Lightroom.
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Photography in 2026: A No-Nonsense Guide to Cameras for Beginners
The camera market is confusing. Mirrorless won, DSLRs are dead, phones are scarily good, and film is back. Here's what actually matters if you're just getting started.
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The ERCs and EIPs That Shaped Ethereum
A chronological tour of the Ethereum standards that actually mattered — from ERC-20 to account abstraction — and why each one changed what you could build.
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Ghostty: The Terminal Emulator That Shouldn't Need to Exist
Mitchell Hashimoto built a terminal from scratch in Zig because every existing option forced a tradeoff between speed, features, and native feel. Here's why Ghostty matters.
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Reproducing i3 on Mac: From Aerospace to Flashspace
How I landed on a tiling + workspace setup on macOS that actually feels like i3. The journey from Aerospace to Flashspace, and why snappiness matters more than features.
8 min read
NestJS: The Framework Node.js Was Missing
NestJS brought structure, dependency injection, and real architecture to Node.js backends. Here's what it does, how it works, when to use it, and when it's overkill.
9 min read
BitTorrent: The Protocol That Refuses to Die
How BitTorrent actually works — peers, pieces, choking, DHT, magnet links — and why a 23-year-old protocol is still the best way to move large files across the internet.
9 min read
ERC-8004: Building a Trust Layer for AI Agents Onchain
ERC-8004 gives AI agents verifiable identity, reputation, and validation on Ethereum. Here's what the standard actually defines, why it matters, and where it's headed.
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Decentralized Social Networks: The Full Map
Mastodon, Bluesky, Farcaster, Nostr, Loops, Pixelfed, PeerTube — what they are, how they work, and what each one is actually betting on.
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MegaETH: The Case for a Real-Time Blockchain
MegaETH claims 100,000 TPS and sub-10ms block times on Ethereum. Here's what the architecture actually does, what it enables, and what it's betting on.
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Privacy in Crypto: Monero, Zcash, and What Ethereum Is Trying to Become
Every transaction on a public blockchain is permanently visible to anyone. Here's how Monero, Zcash, and Ethereum's RAILGUN are trying to fix that — and what they're each betting on.
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cmux: A Terminal Built for Agentic Workflows
Why a terminal designed around running multiple AI agents simultaneously is worth paying attention to.
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Memory, Context, and Sessions in Agentic Coding
AI coding agents don't have memory. They have context windows. Understanding the difference changes how you work with them.
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Dotfiles: Version Control Your Environment
Your shell config, editor settings, and tool preferences are code. Treat them like it.
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Git Worktrees for Parallel Agent Work
Running multiple AI agents in parallel means running multiple branches in parallel. Git worktrees are how you do that without thrashing your working directory.
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OpenCode vs Claude Code: Same Idea, Different Philosophy
Both run AI agents in your terminal. Both support Claude. The differences are in architecture, openness, and what you can configure.
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My RSS Setup in 2026
The reader, the feeds, and the workflow I actually use. Opinionated and practical.
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Rules, Commands, and Skills: The Three Layers of Agentic Coding
Most developers use AI coding assistants as fancy autocomplete. The ones getting 10x more out of them understand the difference between rules, commands, and skills — and use all three deliberately.
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Paragraph, Mirror, and the Onchain Publishing Landscape
A tour of web3 alternatives to Medium and Substack — what works, what died, and what the trade-offs actually are.
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Signal vs Telegram: The Encryption Gap Nobody Talks About
Telegram markets itself as secure. Signal actually is. A look at the architecture, cryptography, and trust models behind two very different messengers.
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Local-First Web Apps with Dexie and DexieCloud
Your app should work without the internet. Here's how to build local-first web apps using IndexedDB, Dexie.js, and DexieCloud for seamless sync.
6 min read
Matrix: The Protocol That Wants to Fix Messaging
Matrix is an open protocol for real-time, decentralized, encrypted communication. Here's why it matters and how to get started.
4 min read
Exploring the x402 Standard
A deep dive into the x402 standard — what it is, why it matters, and how it fits into the modern web ecosystem.
6 min read
What is RSS? A Guide to Taking Back Control of Your Content
RSS is the quiet rebel of the internet. Learn how this simple technology lets you follow websites without algorithms deciding what you see.
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Building Pomo: A Pomodoro Timer That Actually Helps You Focus
The story behind building a minimalist Pomodoro timer with concentration music and productivity tracking.
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Why I Build Things
Reflections on why building small projects keeps me sane and sharp as a developer.