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I am writing a series of lessons on building an ASGI framework from scratch. The goal is to develop a deeper understand of how frameworks like FastAPI and Starlette work. A strong motivation for doing this is because -…

Barq is an experimental HTTP framework built entirely in pure Python, designed for free-threaded Python 3.13 (PEP 703). No async/await, no C extensions - just threads with true parallelism. The question I wanted to…

Hey HN, I built a small HTTP framework to experiment with free-threaded and wanted to share some observations. Barq is ~500 lines of pure Python, no C extensions, no Rust, no Cython. It uses only the standard library…

Purpose first. Everything else is optional. People who worry about AI taking their jobs often lack ambition, or worse, a sense of mission. Too many engineers tie their identity to a title or a role, mistaking employment…

I used Notion for several years for journaling, but I found the cognitive cost of switching into its DSL wasn’t worth it for me. Notion is built on blocks, things like databases built on top. Even when I exported my…

I recently came across an argument related to this, and it made me rethink my own definition. The way I define Fullstack is that it is not limited to frontend and backend work. It’s closer to the hardware-engineer…

I believe Cursor just rolled out its two major features: Debug and Design. I had an understanding of what I wanted from the IDEs, but I could not fully articulate it before the launch. Now that it’s here, it makes…

One of the key differences I an seeing between AI-native engineers and Anti-AI ones: the idea of "fully understanding" what you ship. Before LLMs, we did not fully understand the libraries we read, the kernels we…

I have been experimenting more deeply with agentic coding, and it’s made me rethink how I approach building software. One key difference I have noticed is the upfront cost. With agentic coding, I felt a higher upfront…

I kept running into the same problem as a developer: I forget commands I’ve already figured out. Docker cleanup sequences. Deployments with 15 flags. Test commands that finally worked. Every time, I ended up digging…

I have been noticing two types of engineers on teams I have worked with, and I'm trying to figure out if this is a real pattern or just confirmation bias. - Builders are focused on users and the domain problem. Code is…

I am exploring patterns for orchestrating multi-agent systems with LLMs and wondering how others are approaching this. Most examples today rely on in-prompt chaining — e.g., a single call where “Agent A does X, then…

Most dating and matchmaking apps still use the same model — profiles, photos, swipes, filters but human relationships and expectations have evolved a lot in the last decade. If you were to design a matchmaking platform…