You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” and suddenly your 16-core server is...
My father Stan and I in our default states.lsof -ti:3000 | xargs kill -9 2>/dev/null; npm run devI’ve been wandering up to 60 for a while. During my extreme-extroversion...
December 2020Jessica and I have certain words that have special significance
when we're talking about startups. The highest compliment we can
pay to founders is to describe them as "earnest." This...
AI doesn’t fail because the model is bad, it fails because ownership is missing.
Once someone owns it, everything changes. Your resolution and automation rates climb, the system becomes self-improving,...
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments
Game Development, Around the WorldIn the previous post, I determined what kind of vegetation should grow where in my procedurally generated world....
Give First is now available to pre-order in Audiobook format (it will be officially released on 12/2/26).I’m the reader, so if you are an audiobook person, you’ll have to...
The Santa Maria di Missione chapel in Villafranca Piemonte, northern Italy, stands at the end of a long cornfield. Behind it, the mountains rise gently,...