Thoughts while building

OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second

Sorry Wplace.live

Aug 9 • 

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May 2025

Investigating AI Manipulation in Viral Chinese Paraglider Video

Update: news sites have pulled the video now, confirming parts of it were AI generated.

May 30 • 

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December 2024

The curious case of the packageManager field in package.json

Today I Learned

Dec 29, 2024 • 

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2nd stage of the AI age: AI Labs Need Your Data

First stage of the "AI age" was getting inference costs down to "too cheap to meter".

Dec 19, 2024 • 

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TIL: Get file list from eslint, biome and ruff

Seeing which files are being processed by linter tools is surprisingly difficult.

Dec 18, 2024 • 

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TIL: Vercel AI SDK - the bloat king

I was looking for a simple universal JS lib that could handle OpenAI/Anthropic/Google responses without having to install each client lib.

Dec 11, 2024 • 

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November 2024

TIL: CSS-in-JS modules for SolidJS

I spent a day learning about CSS-in-JS solutions for SolidJS.

Nov 27, 2024 • 

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TIL: Auth provider updates

Today I learned: not yet a full post, just sharing what I learned

Nov 12, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Understanding Round Robin DNS

In which I try to understand how browsers and Cloudflare choose which server to use

Oct 26, 2024 • 

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First month of OpenFreeMap

2k GitHub Stars, 300 req/sec, 2 TB per day

Oct 24, 2024 • 

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September 2024

Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files?

MapHub's UI has remained largely consistent since I launched it eight years ago, with a prominent "Save" button visible in the top-right corner of the…

Sep 21, 2024 • 

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February 2023

Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and others

Looking at Auth providers from a software developer's perspective.

Feb 16, 2023 • 

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