Stories by d-k-blackthorn

What 17,000 career stories taught me about quitting and succeeding at one's job

Strength Tests from Around the World

Please remove all mannered prose

High-Throughput OLTP in Three Simple Steps

AI coding agent PR merge rates: Claude 84%, Codex 74%, Devin 43%, humans 85%

Seattle light rail became first floating passenger train

Squircle

Ten ways an AI breaks under pressure. How many you can catch?

AI is like farming. (and the purpose behind what I'm building)

Design with a Soul: How to make your Vibe-coded site not look like AI Slop

Branching Paths

Things I learned about how people use AI after 1800 people

8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE

Show HN: I built a free Open Graph image designer

Models Write Messier Code Than the Human Who Fixed the Same Bug

Data Centers of Track to Suck Up a Fifth of US Power Use by 2035

N8n-rustful-operator – a Kubernetes operator in Rust that runs n8n from CRDs

Substack Gateway – A REST and MCP Server for Substack

Meontology

The OpenAI Deployment Company to Acquire Northslope

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