Why I Love Visiting Photography Stores
There is something about photography stores that makes me want to walk in even when I have absolutely no intention of buying anything. I can pass dozens of shops without a second glance, but a camera…
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The Fascinating World of Photography
Photography is an unusual combination of technology, observation, creativity, and human curiosity. A camera is a machine designed to capture light, yet the photographs it produces can preserve…
Idempotency Keys: How One Header Stops a Retry From Charging a Customer Twice
A client sends a POST to create a payment. The server charges the card, writes the record, and starts sending the response. Then the connection drops. The client sees a timeout and has no way to tell…
Apple's US Link-Out Fee Is Zero Until a Judge Sets It, and Apple Is Asking for Up to 15%
If your iOS app sells anything digital in the US, you can send users to your own web checkout today and Apple takes nothing from that sale. That has been true since the contempt ruling in Epic v…
GENIUS Act Takes Effect by January 18 With Every Stablecoin Rule Still a Proposal
The GENIUS Act goes live on January 18, 2027, at the latest. The law sets its own effective date as the earlier of that day or 120 days after regulators finish the implementing rules. With three…
Iran's Tanker Strikes Hit a Wartime High on the Omani Side of Hormuz, Aimed at Ships on Its Non-Compliance List
The week of September 28 to October 5 was the worst for tankers in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on February 28. Tracking sources counted at least 12 attacks on oil, LPG and LNG carriers in…
20 Primitive Project Ideas: Tiny Go Engines That Do the Essential 10% of Redis, Kafka and Etcd
Given the direction of AltSql , BareProxy , Precomputing and the VPN primitives work, there is still a surprisingly large design space for projects that are smaller than platforms but more fundamental…
40 Projects Worth Building: SQLite for X, Tiny Infrastructure, MCP Tools and Edge Systems
The most promising territory for a small team isn’t another large framework. It’s the opposite: infrastructure software you can explain in one sentence, ship as one binary or embed as one library, run…
40 Radically Different Infrastructure Primitives, From Reach and Expect to Ignorance and Stop
This list deliberately leaves “tiny version of Redis, Kafka or SQLite” territory behind. That was the first list of 20 primitives . The more interesting search space is a primitive that introduces a…
Counterfactual Store vs. Markov Chains: From Branching State to Reach, an Engine for Possible Futures
The Counterfactual Store does resemble a Markov chain at the conceptual level. Both deal with states and the possible transitions between them. But a Markov chain is mainly a mathematical model for…