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264 posts
2026
Two faces of AI progressOriginalOpenAI shipped persistent workspace agents; Anthropic locked away Mythos 5. Two faces of AI in one week, and two answers to what shipping means.AI
Sunday roundup: starting fresh, April 26OriginalDaily publishing starts here. The Sunday roundup for April 26: OpenAI workspace agents, Anthropic Mythos 5, and what was shipping inside Deepgram.Developer Experience
5 questions I ask before integrating a streaming APIOriginalConnection drops, backpressure, and wire formats. Five questions I ask every streaming API before building on it, learned from voice AI integrations.Developer Experience
Friday fun: generating test tones for voice AI pipelinesOriginalsox synth generates test audio files from scratch at any sample rate and duration. No microphone needed for speech API development.TIL
What 79 TIL posts taught me about developer contentOriginalWhat 79 TIL posts over six and a half years taught me about consistency, keeping the scope small, and writing developer content people actually finish.Developer Experience
Inside the Streaming Cascade Powering Voice AIOriginalReal-time voice agents chain three models over streaming connections. Here's how the cascade architecture works and where every millisecond goes.Voice AI
TIL: pv shows you what is flowing through your pipesOriginalpv (Pipe Viewer) sits between two commands in a pipeline and reports how fast data is moving. It is a progress bar for pipes.TIL
AI's Release Cadence Is Now a Developer ProblemOriginalThree frontier models in two weeks. The release cadence creates evaluation churn, integration instability, and fatigue for developers building on AI.AI
Sunday roundup: two posts, a fresh startOriginalTwo posts from the first weekend of daily writing: terminal STT streaming, WebSocket audio patterns and GPT-5.4-Cyber, in this Sunday roundup for April.Developer Experience
Five WebSocket patterns for real-time audio streamingOriginalStreaming audio WebSockets need reconnect logic, backpressure, heartbeats, and graceful shutdown. Five patterns covering the full connection lifecycle.Engineering