The Unconventional Paths to Statehood
How churches, trading cities, companies, and communities acquired the power to govern—and what their histories reveal about trust and jurisdiction.
ZTHINK / NOTES & ESSAYS
Writing to think.
On technology, building things, and how people work together.
How to Make Beautiful Visualizations for Your Business Storytelling
What NYT, The Pudding, FT and 3Blue1Brown have in common, why a chart library can't make you look good, and how to design interactions that explain instead of merely demonstrate.
Speech-to-Text in 2026: Hosted APIs and Models You Can Run Yourself
Hosted APIs versus open models you can run yourself, compared on accuracy, price per audio-hour, diarization, and what self-hosting actually costs.
The Post-Heroku PaaS Landscape: A 2026 Guide for Your OPC (or Side Projects)
Heroku isn't dead, but it's no longer the default. A 2026 field guide to Railway, Fly.io, Render, Heroku, and self-hosting — with real pricing math for running 10 to 100 small side projects.
I Didn't Know Where My Keys Had Leaked, So I Started Building GuestSafe
After a compromised Mac and AI agents leaked secrets into session logs, I began building GuestSafe: a local, auditable alternative to .env.local.
The Pen Is a Virgin, the Printing Press a Whore
AI is feared as dangerous and mocked for producing junk. Five centuries ago, the printing press drew both complaints. History shows the argument is not new.
Local-First Secrets for AI Agents on macOS: A 2026 Field Survey
A field survey of local secret stores for AI agents on macOS—and the privilege boundary needed to keep an agent from erasing its own access trail.
A Proposal for Common Sense Reform of Section 230: Reciprocal Choice
Your decision, your responsibility. Not your responsibility, not your decision to make. A common-sense framework for rethinking platform liability by tying responsibility to the specific decisions platforms actually make.
MVP List — A Collaborated Weekend Planner Powered by GBrain and GStack
Two tired parents, a one-year-old, and a thousand bookmarked places we keep meaning to visit. Here is the small planning agent we built so that every Saturday no longer starts with the same question: 'so... where are we going today?'
Maintain Your Personal Distro — Part 2: The How (revised)
A technical deep-dive into why Carried Patch Queue (CPQ) is the gold standard for individuals maintaining their own software stacks in 2026 — and why the old ways of managing downstreams will eventually kill your project.
Maintain Your Personal Distro — Part 1: The Why
It is now possible for each person to maintain their own personal distro with AI: a fast-moving, opinionated downstream version of software that continuously rebases on upstream while preserving your own defaults, workflows, and carried patches.
Security Analysis of Claude Code v2.1.88 — Source Reconstructed from Source Maps
A deep-dive security review of Claude Code's internals, reconstructed from its published source maps. Covers permission sandboxing, shell execution, credential handling, remote killswitches, and 10 findings.
Design System Skills for AI Agentic Development: The 5 Most-Discussed Approaches on X
Figma is invisible to AI agents. Developers across X have spent the past two weeks converging on the same fix: make design principles explicit, structured, and agent-executable.
Address Poisoning is a Wallet Bug, Not a User's Fault
Address poisoning isn't a user problem — it's a wallet UI bug. How wallets enable this $68M attack and how to fix it.
Trust In Mail
A technical proposal for decentralized email anti-spam using trust propagation, group trust, and optional pay-to-email mechanisms.
Proposal - Orange Perk Exchange (Phase 1)
A proposal for Orange DAO to create a Perk Exchange page where founders can share and discover startup perks and credits.
Startup Notes: Reflections on Accounting
An entrepreneur's journey to understanding accounting: from the balance sheet to income statements, demystifying the core logic.
Overhead and Min Size
How 'overhead' shapes content length, music distribution, and business scale — from Broadway shows to blockchain micro-transactions.
Car of Thoughts
AI is to thinking what the car was to walking — a reflection on how tools from handwriting to AI have amplified human intellectual capacity.
Why International Flights Often Require Manual Check-In
Why international flights still require manual check-in, and a proposal for standardized APIs between airlines and customs for digital verification.
Blockchain and Tipping Culture
How blockchain could transform tipping from unreliable one-off transactions into a transparent, reputation-based system that rewards good service.
Why the Customer Call Experience Sucks
A constructive analysis of why calling customer service is so painful — from wrong numbers to complex menus to repeated identity verification.
读书笔记 欧利坚合众国
《The United States of Europe》读书笔记：从二战到2004年，欧盟的历史、关键人物和欧元诞生过程。
The Qualitative Leap of On-Chain Reputation
How on-chain reputation creates a qualitative leap over traditional systems through openness, decentralization, and fairness.
Recommendations
A curated list of books I highly recommend, from Bill Gates to Vitalik Buterin.
Group Delegatee: Multi-Brains for Multi-DAOs
Exploring the concept of group delegatees in DAO governance — how collectives using multi-sig wallets can serve as more resilient delegates.
A deep technical overview of Ethereum
A technical overview of Ethereum for internet engineers, covering its state machine model, execution layer, and consensus mechanism.
How I write
A living document on my writing workflow: Markdown, Obsidian, Jekyll on GitHub Pages, inspired by the Zettelkasten method.
What I use
A running list of tools and gear I use daily — blogging, IDE, full-stack development, headphones, and sport monitoring.
Why I write
My foundational article on why I write: self-expression, personal growth, connecting with readers, and the joy of creative exploration.
The Manifesto of Digital Trust
A vision statement of D3Serve: why digitizing trust — like the digitization of information before it — promises a leap in productivity, loss-less precision, lower cost, and automation.
What, Why and How for Communities
A framework for understanding communities: what defines them, why they matter for collaboration, and how to build them.
Open Contributor Community: a new generation of communities
Defining the Open Contributor Community model: everyone can contribute, trust is earned through contributions, and contributions are rewarded.
3min connect Slack and Discord with matterbridge
A quick guide to bridging Slack and Discord channels using matterbridge with Docker in just 3 minutes.
Hamilton's Education, A piece of history insights - 从哈密尔顿的教育经历的得到一点启发
从汉密尔顿因教会资格被拒而无法上学的经历，思考教会权力、社会保障与国家形态的关系。
Philosophy in Eningeering a Community of Contributors
A presentation on the philosophy behind building and engineering a thriving community of contributors.
5 steps to perform code reviews at Google
A practical guide to code reviews based on experience at Google, covering pre-screening, understanding, and evaluating change lists.
No matching articles. Try another search.
37 articles