Mounting Remote Disks Over Plain HTTP: Contributing to fs-relay
A reflection on 20 years of Linux network mounts, why Muayyad Alsadi's fs-relay beats s3fs and NFS by 10x, and the upstream work on SQLite locking and v0.2.0.
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Demystifying Go's encoding/json/v2: Why It Took 6 Years to Fix JSON in Go
After fifteen years of silent UTF-8 corruption, duplicate-key ambiguity, and hidden quadratic unmarshaling, Go 1.27 ships encoding/json/v2 and jsontext. Here is how the new two-...
When the Hard Languages Stopped Being Hard
The hard languages used to gatekeep by friction. Agents are walking through that territory now, and the moat is thinning.
SynthID Goes Public: Inside synthid.com and the New Frontier of AI Watermarking
Google just launched synthid.com backed by OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Kakao. Here is what changed since my 2024 analysis, why Article 50 of the EU AI Act forced this coalition, how pos...
My MCP Stack: How I Run My Own Agent Tools
Autonomous coding agents need local discipline: honest token accounting, governed skill drawers, and repeatable quality gates. Here is how I run Thermal, Skill Cabinet Go, and a...
The Skill Bloat Dilemma: Why Your Coding Agent Can't Handle 400 Skills
Centralizing agent skills in global vaults creates a brutal trilemma: catastrophic prompt token bloat, silent alphabetical truncation past fifty tools, and the total blindspot o...
Why Your Coding Agents Burn Tokens in the Dark
We handed our terminals over to autonomous coding agents, only to discover our token bills were compounding in silence. Here is how I built Thermal to track 14 agent harnesses w...
Demystifying Agent Skills: Why They Work Until They Don't
Why do agent skills boost task completion on clean benchmarks yet collapse from 29.6% to 3.3% precision at scale? A concrete breakdown of the 8,135-trial Princeton and Stanford...
The Irony Loop and the Myth of Open AI: Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish V2
Reading Microsoft's modern stance on open weights feels surreal when you remember the 2001 WhiteHouse.gov Linux migration and the 2006 Novell deal. Here is why the modern 'open...
The Wail in the Alleyway: How We Traded Shared Terror for Silent Notifications
A memory of the 1991 Gulf War in a quiet Jabal Amman stair-alleyway, and how screens have atomized our collective response to regional crisis into solitary background noise.
Latency Is Political When You Live Far from the Center
Latency is usually described as a performance metric. From the edge of the network, it starts to feel more like a power relationship: a reminder of who gets to live close to the...
The Open Source AI Rebellion: Echoes of the Early Linux Days
From Amman, the current open-source AI wave feels uncannily familiar. The same builder energy, the same elite gatekeeping, and the same fight over who gets to shape the future o...
The Power of Jules: A New Era of Software Engineering
Working with Jules gave me a concrete look at what AI coding agents are actually good at: absorbing context, handling the tedious middle, and forcing human engineers to operate...
AI Proxies, LLMs, Arabic Language Performance, and OBSBOT Tiny2 for Podcasting
A grounded look at the AI experiments that have been occupying my evenings: private proxies, Arabic-language reality checks, and an early podcasting setup powered by equal parts...
Understanding Arabic Sentiment Analysis
Arabic sentiment analysis sounds straightforward until dialects, morphology, and limited datasets enter the picture. This piece breaks down why the problem remains both difficul...
Talking to Machines Like They Talk Back: The Enduring Legacy of the ELIZA Effect
Long before ChatGPT, ELIZA showed how quickly humans project empathy, intention, and understanding onto software. That instinct still shapes both the appeal and the risks of mod...
Decoding the AI Black Box: My Enlightening Dialogue with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
A late-night dialogue with Claude 3.5 Sonnet pushed me past the usual AI hype and into the harder questions: opacity, variability, auditability, and how to use these systems wit...
From Code to Canvas: An AI-Fueled Artistic Awakening
What began as technical curiosity turned into something more personal: AI art gave me a low-friction way back into visual creativity and changed how I think about who gets to ma...
SynthID: The AI Watermark That Could Save the Internet
Watermarking systems like SynthID will not solve authenticity on their own, but they may become one of the few practical tools we have for separating provenance from pure guessw...
Rekindling the Flame: My Journey Back to Blogging After Two Decades
After two decades away from regular blogging, I found myself returning to the medium that first taught me the value of owning my voice, my perspective, and my little corner of t...
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