HTTP Entity Tags
Cache validation and conditional updates with ETag, If-None-Match, and If-Match
Recent Notes
August 2026
Shame and Avoidance
How hiding from exposure can preserve the shame it briefly relieves
The WireGuard Protocol
Peers, cryptokey routing, handshakes, key rotation, and protocol boundaries
Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents
A framework for reasoning about an agent's memory, actions, and decision loop
The Phoenix Architecture
Regenerating disposable implementations from durable intent and evaluations
Cancellation Signals
Cooperative cancellation for asynchronous and long-running work
Cognitive Surrender and Tri-System Theory
How AI can support, displace, or bypass human deliberation
Inspecting Processes with ps
Process selection, custom output, state codes, and portability across Unix systems
MCP and Agent Skills
Connecting agents to capabilities and teaching them how to use those capabilities
Kierkegaard’s “Subjectivity Is Truth”
Inwardness as a way of existing, choosing, and remaining committed
Kierkegaard’s “Truth Which Is True for Me”
How understanding becomes a commitment that gives a life direction
Embeddings
Learned vector representations of meaning and similarity
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Grounding language-model answers in retrieved source material
Vectors
How vectors represent data and make similarity search possible
Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
The settlement that created compensation processes and the TRC
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Documenting the history and legacy of residential schools
Thurman Munson
The career, life, and legacy of the Yankees captain
Bobbin
Tangled's diskless, API-only AppView
July 2026
Raft
An understandable consensus algorithm for replicated state machines
remotion
code to video with React
RRB Vector
Relaxed Radix Balanced Vector
standard.site
open-social publishing
CRDT
A conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) is a data structure that can be replicated across multiple computers in a network.
PTY
A pty is a pseudoterminal, a software interface in Unix-like operating systems that emulates a physical hardware terminal. They're to gain access to the shell.
PageRank
PageRank is the first algorithm used by Google Search to rank the importance of web pages, named after web pages & Google Co-Founder Larry Page.