Articles by vortex_ape
44

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf] (cmu.edu)

2

The Next Thing Will Not Be Big (glyph.im)

7

Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast (github.com/pwnfunction)

2

Self-driving SaaS: When software runs itself (linear.app)

1

When Will Quantum Computing Work? (tommccarthy.net)

1

Ship Broken Things (matmul.net)

1

Agentic Coding with Toad (willmcgugan.github.io)

31

Getting into Flow State with Agentic Coding (kau.sh)

1

Invisible Asymptotes (eugenewei.com)

1

The Urgency of Interpretability (darioamodei.com)

1

Catch Up: Lessons Senior Engineers Know about ORMs (ketanbhatt.com)

1

Sketch: Autonomous Software Apprentice (github.com/boldsoftware)

1

Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (github.com/abiosoft)

1

Airbnb Services and Experiences (airbnb.com)

27

How (memory) safe is Zig? (2021) (scattered-thoughts.net)

2

The future of AI interaction: Beyond just text (epicai.pro)

1

Instrumenting Your MCP Server (cra.mr)

2

Test LLM-powered apps in TypeScript (evalite.dev)

2

A conversation with Jony Ive [video] (youtube.com)

1

Poking Around Claude Code (leehanchung.github.io)

1

Digging into the Claude Code Source (daveschumaker.net)

1

Non-Obvious Problems (ryanhoover.me)

2

MCP Is Not Good, Yet (cra.mr)

2

Trust in the Age of AI (world.org)

3

Testing AI's GeoGuessr Genius (astralcodexten.com)

2

Some PEP talk, or: What is a pyproject.toml? (vinayak.io)

2

Do you need a Vector Search Database? (fin.ai)

1

Agency Is Eating the World (giansegato.com)

2

YC Interview Simulator (2012) (jamescun.github.io)

4

When engineers say "that'll take months " (ryansinger.co)

3

YC Interview Simulator (jamescun.github.io)

3

Become an AI-Augmented Engineer (maryrosecook.com)

6

Choose Boring Technology (mcfunley.com)

1

Globstar: Open-source static analysis toolkit (github.com/deepsourcecorp)

2

The Age of Abundance (tomblomfield.com)

2

Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key (twitter.com/vortex_ape)

2

Code for Altair Basic [pdf] (gatesnotes.com)

3

The Age of Abundance (tomblomfield.com)

1

Guido van Rossum has reinstated himself as Python's BDFL (twitter.com/honeypotio)

1

Building a Memex [video] (youtube.com)

4

Build and deploy Remote MCP servers to Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)

3

MCP and the emerging enterprise AI OS layer (dust.tt)

2

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? (jvns.ca)

1

Teaching LLMs to Write Like You: Fine-Tuning vs. Prompting (mattambrogi.com)

1

Every Emoji Kitchen combination in a giant zoomable image (x.st)

4

Show HN: I made a Sonic Pi MCP to create music with prompts (twitter.com/vortex_ape)

1

Show HN: I made a Sonic Pi MCP to make Claude my jamming buddy (twitter.com/vortex_ape)

1

Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key (twitter.com/vortex_ape)

1

Axiomatic Engineering (interwebalchemy.com)

1

OpenTimes: Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies (sno.ws)

1

Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key (github.com/vinayak-mehta)

1

The Internet Desk (rulethepla.net)

2

Become an AI-Augmented Engineer (maryrosecook.com)

1

Smile Like Zuck (smilelikezuck.com)

8

Show HN: Browser-Use MCP for Claude that works without an API key (twitter.com/vortex_ape)

3

Making a multiplayer action game in Haskell (gitlab.com/-)

1

Paris during the greatest tech boom in history [video] (youtube.com)

20

Building AI agents to query your databases (dust.tt)

3

What automated firms will look like (dwarkesh.com)

1

Show HN: Fleur, open-source app store for Claude (github.com/fleuristes)

1

Show HN: Fleur, open-source app store for Claude (github.com/fleuristes)

4

Show HN: Open-source app store for Claude (fleurmcp.com)

1

You don't need Python to build AI products (lawrencejones.dev)

1

Building Friend Catchers (ferrucc.io)

2

Extreme Server Side Rendering (scd31.com)

1

Nil Channels in Go (vishnubharathi.codes)

1

How to do sales with no experience (posthog.com)

1

Finding Lookalikes of YC Companies (alphalens.com)

1

A standard interface for TypeScript schema validation libraries (github.com/standard-schema)

1

React emoji picker component styled with Tailwind (github.com/ferrucc-io)

1

I Use AI as an Intern (pocoo.org)

4

JPEG compress your LLM weights (pepijndevos.nl)

1

Bright Lights in Dark Times (ntietz.com)

1

Building Personal Software with Claude (nelhage.com)

1

Croissant Maker: A short narrative cooking game (jamiepalatnik.itch.io)

1

Open-source tool to analyze Strava runs (runinsightai.com)

2

Zen is a privacy-focused browser that blocks trackers (github.com/zen-browser)

2

Reddit Is OpenAI's Moat (2023) (cyberdemon.org)

2

MIT Mystery Hunt 2025 (todaythings.substack.com)

1

Prototyping an Automatic Tattoo Gun (owentrueblood.com)

2

Dates in JavaScript (elijer.github.io)

1

iMessage-inspired website to chat with famous tech people (alanagoyal.com)

2

Chat with private and local large language models (github.com/mainframecomputer)

1

How to build a notebook-based data platform (vinayak.io)

1

How to build a notebook-based data platform (vinayak.io)

1

How to build a notebook-based data platform (vinayak.io)

1

Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done (archive.is)

4

How to navigate and exit the idea maze (michaelrbock.com)

120

VS Code Pets (github.com/tonybaloney)

1

Challenges to Funding Open Source (alexgaynor.net)

2

Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust (ntietz.com)

2

LLM Says Buttons (sygi.xyz)

3

Programmable Intimacy (antiantihuman.com)

45

Branchless UTF-8 Encoding (cceckman.com)

1

A personal digest for your reMarkable (ferrucc.io)

1

The Context Outside the Code (zed.dev)

179

Great things about Rust that aren't just performance (ntietz.com)

129

Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (eieio.games)

1

Quick Advice to New Rustaceans (ryanisaacg.com)

1

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? (jvns.ca)