CalcMark

Audaciously deciding to write a new language til — — I really wanted a tiny little version of Jupyter notebooks but for personal calculations that can also have Markdown in them. So I started chatting with my buddy, Claude, who gave me an inflated sense …

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Shrinking output from Go WebAssembly til — — Cross-compiling Go code to WebAssembly (WASM) is really powerful. It also produces massive files to download. So how can we shrink this down?

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Compound engineering blog — — How I used compound engineering to build a real product as a solo developer. Not “look how many commits I made” but “look at the quality and speed of issue resolution.” The …

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Teaching agents to use CalcMark til — — I wrote an agent skill so Claude Code can use CalcMark for calculations. Then I asked Claude what was hard, and it taught me a few things about building tools for agents.

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Building a language in Go blog — — What I learned building CalcMark — a calculation language embedded in markdown — in Go. Lexers, parsers, type systems, and the tradeoffs that bit me.

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