I Launched a Website Builder That Costs Pennies Instead of $25/mo
4 min read
On fast fashion software, pay-per-generation pricing, and escaping SaaS rent
Buried Treasure
Technical writings and thoughts by Johannes Naylor
Blog Posts
Should you rewrite your machine learning pipelines in Zig?
6 min read
Writing audio ML preprocessing pipelines in Zig to get of magnitude speedups from native ffmpeg bindings?
Trading Bot Backtests are Lying to You
10 min read
Why most algorithmic trading backtests are theater / not all crashes are the same / how to do better
Cafés in Williamsburg BK
1 min read
A amateur analysis of the coffee shops in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Introducing Saint John™️
6 min read
The First Android Home Screen with a Built In LLM Agent
I'm leaving Udio
2 min read
Letting go of my $500k software job and building in the age of fast fashion software
Migrating Off Hashnode
2 min read
From Blogging Platforms to YouTube's Moat.
SELECT * FROM image.png
6 min read
Learn how png-db uses steganography and the flexible PNG file format to embed and retrieve JSON data within image files.
Protect Your Database from Cursor
2 min read
a database proxy to defend against AI
Der Sprachlernprozess
5 min read
Meine Reise zum Deutschlernen
Building a Simple AI DAW, Part 2: MCP and Agents
21 min read
A semi-technical deep-dive into building a robust AI audio agent. Learn how a rust-based streaming engine and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) agent
Query Google Sheets with SQL
2 min read
Turn Google Sheets into a Database with Go
i made csv-parser 1.3x faster (sometimes)
7 min read
Building a Rust-powered drop-in replacement that actually works
Observability in Audius’s Decentralized System
5 min read
I just paid off all my student loans
3 min read
Introducing Housefly: A Playground for Web Scraping
2 min read
Learn Web Scraping with Hands-On Challenges and Real Websites
Build a Simple Ai DAW
14 min read
Program an Ai Audio Manipulation Agent with Python & Langchain
null is worse than you think
6 min read
why javascript has null and undefined
Create a Wine Recommender Using NLP on AWS
10 min read
Use AWS SageMaker to create sentence-BERT embeddings and run realtime Nearest Neighbors inferences
Discover Hidden Secrets in Git Repos with Rust
11 min read
Why you can't just delete passwords from a git repo
How to Manipulate Images on a GPU
18 min read
Using C++ and NVIDIA's CUDA
Creating a Twitter Bot in Go
11 min read
My Switch Away From Python
10 min read