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4 postsAI, Rockets, and Why Engineering Judgment Still Costs the Same
AI cheapens code generation, not engineering judgment. A rocket-engineering analogy — Apollo vs. the Soviet N1 — reframes how teams should review AI code.
Hazshield AI: I Killed the Database, the Alarms Survived
A Rust-based industrial gateway processed 10,000 sensor readings per second while its database was deliberately killed mid-test, ending with zero lost alarms and zero request errors.
Arcan: A User-Centric Overlay Operating System Design
Arcan is a single-user overlay operating system that grants autonomy over every device you own, independent of Linux or BSD kernels. This piece covers its core building block, SHMIF.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comA Periodic Table of System Design: 40+ Shared Principles
Georgia Tech researcher Joy Arulraj distills over 100 influential papers into a shared taxonomy of 40+ system design principles spanning databases, OS, and distributed systems.