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Stories from the trenches — startups, scale, and the occasional experiment.

Can You Extract an LLM's Reasoning Into a Tiny Probabilistic Program?

An experiment in distilling Claude's reasoning into probability tables and Markov chains — a zero-dependency Python program that runs ~1000× faster than an LLM call. The accuracy is humble; the methodology is the interesting part.

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AppSurfer Bids Adieu

After four years and four pivots, Google's Instant Apps solved the very problem we'd set out to solve. The story of building — and saying goodbye to — AppSurfer.

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EasyTags: Stop Hand-Writing Go Struct Tags

A tiny Go CLI that walks your structs and generates the json/xml/sql tags for you — CamelCase to snake_case, automatically. The best tools are the ones you forget you're using.

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YAAG: API Docs for Go Without Writing a Single Comment

Born at GopherGala 2015: middleware that turns real API calls into clean Bootstrap docs — no comments, no annotations. A weekend hack that somehow picked up ~286 stars.

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