https://pushdev.tech A notebook for thoughts that keep coming back. en-us https://pushdev.tech/posts/the-bug-that-didnt-fire https://pushdev.tech/posts/the-bug-that-didnt-fire Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two engineers ship the same mistake. One's system is live, so the gap in their understanding becomes visible. The other's isn't. Thomas Nagel called this circumstantial luck, and software engineering is full of it. https://pushdev.tech/posts/attention-as-craft https://pushdev.tech/posts/attention-as-craft Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT We talk about attention like it's a budget to spend. What if it's a skill — practiced, sharpened, and slowly lost when we stop using it? https://pushdev.tech/papers/agent-evaluation-field-note https://pushdev.tech/papers/agent-evaluation-field-note Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A rising benchmark score now tells you more about the benchmark than the agent. Notes from the other side of trusting one. https://pushdev.tech/posts/small-models https://pushdev.tech/posts/small-models Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT After six months running everything locally, here's what I learned about latency, privacy, and the surprising creativity of constrained systems. https://pushdev.tech/posts/weeknote-02 https://pushdev.tech/posts/weeknote-02 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three small things I shipped, two books I started, one walk I'll remember. https://pushdev.tech/posts/weeknote-01 https://pushdev.tech/posts/weeknote-01 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT What three days of single-tasking taught me, and what fell apart on the fourth. https://pushdev.tech/posts/letter-01 https://pushdev.tech/posts/letter-01 Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short letter to subscribers about the difference between done and abandoned. https://pushdev.tech/posts/writing-in-the-open https://pushdev.tech/posts/writing-in-the-open Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Publishing rough thoughts in public taught me something I didn't expect: that polish and clarity are different muscles. https://pushdev.tech/posts/slow-productivity https://pushdev.tech/posts/slow-productivity Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cal Newport, 2024. The diagnosis is sharper than the cure: a great name for why knowledge work feels broken, and a quiet silence about who actually gets to fix it. https://pushdev.tech/papers/scaling-laws-revisited https://pushdev.tech/papers/scaling-laws-revisited Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five empirical updates to the Chinchilla picture, with implications for how labs spend their next billion. https://pushdev.tech/posts/mythos-stephen-fry https://pushdev.tech/posts/mythos-stephen-fry Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stephen Fry, 2017. I came for the Greek myths and spent the whole book underlining words: the stories never ended, they just turned into our language. https://pushdev.tech/posts/orwell-1984 https://pushdev.tech/posts/orwell-1984 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT George Orwell, 1949. I expected a novel about being watched. What stayed was the ending: the Party won't kill you until you genuinely believe. https://pushdev.tech/posts/homo-deus https://pushdev.tech/posts/homo-deus Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT Yuval Noah Harari, 2016. I came for the Sapiens sequel and spent a week arguing with one chapter. Notes on free will, ownership, and who gets to rewrite your algorithm. https://pushdev.tech/posts/creativity-inc https://pushdev.tech/posts/creativity-inc Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Ed Catmull, 2014. A Pixar memoir that turns out to be about entropy: why a creative culture is never finished, only maintained against its own decay.