I'm Emmanuel, a software engineer writing about software, tools, and the craft of building useful things on the web.
My days are spent thinking about product engineering, developer experience, AI-native workflows, and the small details that make software feel good.
I share notes here and occasional thoughts on Twitter.
2026
- Separating Signal from Noise in Coding Evaluations: OpenAI's Analysis 4 min read
- Agent Skills Review: AI-Powered Web Design and Prompting Workflows 5 min read
- Aluminum Foil: The Surprisingly Versatile Engineering Material 3 min read
- Organic Maps: Offline Navigation App Taking HN by Storm 4 min read
- CO2 Impairs Decision Making: Fix the Air in Your Office 3 min read
- Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data: What It Means for Builders 4 min read
- ZCode and GLM-5.2: A New Desktop Agent with Old Pricing Tricks 3 min read
- US Labor Share of Income Hits Post-War Low: What It Means 4 min read
- FluidVoice Review: Fastest macOS Offline Dictation App 5 min read
- IP Crawl Exposes Why We Can't Trust Unsecured Webcams 3 min read
- Max Planck Paper Retraction: A Stain on Academic Publishing 3 min read
- Half-Life 2 WebAssembly Port: Browser Gaming's New Frontier 3 min read
- Jerry's Map: The Power of Creative Constraints in Hand-Drawn Art 4 min read
- Zig Foundation Gets $400k Pledge: What It Means for Open-Source 3 min read
- Developers Don't Understand CORS: Why It Still Matters in 2026 5 min read