I have taken a break from working intensely on tgo for the last four days. Prior to this, I worked for probably three weeks straight, every single day, including Sundays, just getting this engine going. I pushed it to a point where things were stable, and then, as happens with these massive architectural shifts, things
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If you look around the corporate landscape today, you’ll notice a disturbing trend: management is actively trying to strangle the productivity out of their teams. Don’t let the recent push for AI by management to “increase productivity” fool you. They don’t care about effectiveness, they care about following the trends. I’ve gone into contract after
Read MoreThis isn’t going to be a massively long post, but it is a critical one. There is a brutal lesson here about trying to move too fast, failing your own basic processes, and misunderstanding how AI actually manages state. If you’ve been following along, you know that getting argparse and lodash to compile natively into
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There isn’t a singular, highly compelling, life-or-death reason I started building tgo (a TypeScript-to-Go native compiler). It didn’t start because I ran into a wall that could only be solved by compiling TypeScript down to a Go binary. **It started because of a disappointment. ** A few weeks ago, I saw that Microsoft was releasing
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I have spent the better part of two weeks grinding on getting Lodash supported in the tgo compiler. It has been a relentless game of whack-a-mole, constantly dealing with dependencies of dependencies deep down in the JavaScript ecosystem. It’s a process of taking ten steps forward, two steps back, and breaking UUID implementations just to
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I want to talk about the philosophy of a tool. It is an extremely important concept, and in the day and age of AI, people desperately need to be reminded of what a tool actually is. This entire theory started for me about a year ago. I was running a bunch of AI experiments, having
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I want to talk about why philosophy is actually far more important than people think, especially when it comes to software engineering, systems design, and AI. When most people hear the word “philosophy,” they roll their eyes. They think of abstract, circular arguments that don’t matter in the real world. But true philosophy, good philosophy,
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I had a micro-heart attack it seems. I was in the middle of working through some deep implementation issues on tgo when I stumbled across a project called Goja. My stomach instantly dropped. I got this sudden, heavy sense of dread that someone had already built exactly what I’ve been pouring my life into for
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I’ve been making massive headway on tgo, my TypeScript to Go compiler library, but it is forcing me to confront some hard realities about how I manage systems, AI, and even people. The Cost of Scaling Complexity Since the last devlog, I’ve added full support for Node libraries—fs, path, process, and a few others. Right
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I have, over the years, come to appreciate process. And if I’m being completely honest, admitting that makes me a little sick to my stomach. It feels incredibly corporate. Every day, I worry that I am slowly mutating into some kind of corporate goon. But here I am, getting ready to extol the virtues of
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