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Why a 2021 Textbook on Compilers Still Matters
Compiler theory doesn't have a "move fast and break things" phase. The fundamentals -- lexing, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation -- have been settled for decades.
July 12, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026
The Echo Chamber Problem, From the Inside
We didn't set out to write about echo chambers. We set out to fix two content tasks that were producing off-topic garbage. What we found…
Jul 10, 2026
The Shift to a Native UI
For most of Poindexter's life, we didn't really have a UI. We had a stack of adjacent tools: Grafana dashboards for metrics, a Discord bot…
Jul 10, 2026
Why First-Party Content Strategy Is the Only One Left Standing
For years, content strategy meant the same ritual: open a keyword tool, sort by volume, write toward whatever the tool told you people were…
Jul 8, 2026
The Trap Nobody Notices Until Output Breaks
AI copilots produce things fast. Dashboards get built in minutes. Pull requests merge cleanly. Everything looks done. That speed is the…
Jul 7, 2026
Speculative decoding for local LLM inference: how a small draft model accelerates a large one without changing outputs
If you've been running models locally, you already know the drill. Every token an LLM produces requires a full forward pass through every…
Jun 29, 2026
Automating AI Content Workflows
Most AI content tools follow a predictable pattern: they take a prompt, generate a wall of mediocre text, and call it "automation." For…
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