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5 essays on code, systems, and the craft of building software.

Jul 18, 2026 ·4 min read

One Year With an Electric Car: What Nobody Tells You

The spec sheet sells you range and horsepower. After 18,000 kilometers, the things I actually notice are quieter, stranger, and more human than any number on the window sticker.

carsevtech

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Jul 10, 2026 ·3 min read

AI Is Quietly Eating the User Interface

For thirty years we learned to think like our software — menus, tabs, settings buried four screens deep. AI is inverting that bargain, and the button may not survive it.

techai

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Jun 29, 2026 ·3 min read

The Quiet Luxury of an Unscheduled Afternoon

We optimize our days like engineers tuning a system for throughput. But some of the best things in a life only show up in the slack — the empty hours we've been taught to feel guilty about.

lifereflections

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Jun 15, 2026 ·3 min read

In Defense of the Manual Transmission

The clutch pedal is disappearing, and the case against it is airtight — slower, harder, objectively worse. I want to defend it anyway, because not everything worth keeping is efficient.

carslife

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Jun 1, 2026 ·3 min read

I Turned Off Notifications for a Month

Not a digital detox. Not a dopamine cleanse. Just a small experiment in taking back the one thing every app is quietly competing for — the right to interrupt me.

techlife

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