Creator of commonplace, just a guy with a chronic bookmark issue and things to share (or so he thinks)
Everyone obsesses over speed, output, and frameworks. Roadmaps, sprints, OKRs, KPIs. Execution, execution, execution. I’m no exception: if I’m not moving, I start stressing. But moving for the sake of moving doesn’t create progress. Speed alone isn’t leverage... it can cause drift, or worse… a
Read moreI don’t really have a bookmarking system.I used to use Pocket. It was fine. Then it got discontinued.I tried Readwise after that. Decent enough, but for some reason it never fully clicked.So now my “setup” is Chrome bookmarks and sending links to myself on Telegram. Which, if I’m honest, isn’t a
Read moreEvery few months, someone declares RAG is dead.Usually right after a new model launches with a larger context window.128k.1M.“Why retrieve anything? Just dump everything into the prompt.”And people act like information retrieval is now obsolete.It isn’t.And the argument gets weaker the more you
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"The core philosophy of compound engineering is that each unit of engineering work should make subsequent units easier—not harder.Most codebases get harder to work with over time because each feature you add injects more complexity. After 10 years, teams spend more time fighting their system than
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Wanting to building is collapsing very fast
"Context Is the New WorkloadEvery AI system runs on context.Prompts, memory, retrieved documents, intermediate reasoning steps, tool outputs, and prior conversations all get bundled together into a single execution surface. That bundle is the real workload.Yet most systems still treat context as an
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As someone that was part of -bigger than it should be- frontend codebases, this is a very nice and tbh simple take on micro frontends. Cloudflare primitives are amazing.
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