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Post-Quantum Crypto Is Here — What It Means on AWS

TL;DR: Post-quantum cryptography stopped being a research-paper topic. The reason to care today is ā€œharvest-now, decrypt-laterā€: an adversary records your encrypted traffic now and decrypts it once a …

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How My Setup Learns While You Sleep

TL;DR: The thing that makes an agent get better over time is a loop, and the loop is the same whether you buy it or build it: capture raw interaction, consolidate it on a schedule, and keep the lesson…

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Compression Is Intelligence

TL;DR: Information theory says prediction and compression are the same thing measured two ways. That gives the cleanest mental model I know for what a large language model does: it is a compressor of …

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Your Obsidian Vault Is a Knowledge Graph

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Tony Seale spent six months working almost entirely inside a markdown wiki wired to an LLM, and argued the most…

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Vector Search, From the Whiteboard to the Cloud

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: Vector search is easy to picture on a whiteboard: turn text into a list of numbers, then find the stored items …

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The Other Half of Two-Pizza

TL;DR: Werner Vogels’ ā€œA return to two-pizza cultureā€ describes how a coding agent let one scientist prototype Amazon Quick Desktop overnight, and how ownership culture carried it from there. Reading …

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Own Your Real Estate: Why I Stopped Renting My Audience

TL;DR: If you publish on platforms you don’t control, you don’t own your audience, you rent it, and the landlord can change the locks anytime. The fix is POSSE: publish the canonical copy on a site yo…

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Agent Memory Is a Spectrum, Not a Switch

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video: a narrated screencast of this post. TL;DR: ā€œMy agent keeps forgetting thingsā€ is usually not a model problem. It’s a memory-architecture problem. Agent me…

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Scrawl: Building a Tool for Humans and Agents

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video with a narrated walkthrough. TL;DR: I watched someone present across half a dozen apps, drawing on screen to make their points, and I wanted the same thing…

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I Rebuilt a Browser Fact-Checker on AWS, and AgentCore Web Search Was the Missing Piece

šŸŽ¬ Also available as a blog walkthrough video if you’d rather watch than read. TL;DR: I came across an open-source browser extension that fact-checks videos and live streams in real time, and I wanted …

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