Jake Gold

I’ve worked closely with hundreds of programmers over decades. There were always some people who were shockingly...

Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices. They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers...

US residential proxies are the bane of the internet. They’re the major source of social media manipulation and...

For over 20 years, the meditative focus of programming has been one of the best parts of my job. Every week I’d...

The best coding model in the world is about to leave the Claude subscription, which rightly makes people nervous about...

There is a common Silicon Valley saying that “being early is the same as being wrong”, which can be true but...

Qwen 3.6 27B (currently a popular model to run locally) ships on Hugging Face as 15 safetensors files totaling 56GB of...

With all the obvious caveats about historical accuracy, one of my favorite uses for AI image generation is recreating...

Coding agents work by sending your prompt and files to a model’s API over HTTP and receiving generated code and...

The Claude and Codex TUI coding agents both render a status line at the bottom of the interface. Configuring...

The default assumption should be that foreign state actors have already exfiltrated the weights of Claude Fable 5 and...

You add a DNS record. The app says it’s wrong. You check it, fix a typo, try again. Still wrong. You wait. You try...

SQLite is amazing Most developers already know SQLite is great. If you have not tried it, you are missing out. SQLite is...

In my previous post Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin, I did some quick performance testing of CGI...

In the early 2000s, we used to write a lot of CGI programs. This was the primary way to make websites dynamic at the...

What is Bluesky? Bluesky is three things. Bluesky the social app Available on Apple’s App Store, Google Play, and...

What is atproto? atproto is two things: A protocol for creating open social networks An open social network atproto, the...