https://siamand.cc/blog/ Rumination, internet postmortem en Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://siamand.cc/blog/when-99-percent-of-humans-become-irrelevant/ https://siamand.cc/blog/when-99-percent-of-humans-become-irrelevant/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 If machines can do the work, maintain themselves and build more machines, human labour loses its leverage. A note on what that does to the other 99%. ai robotics automation economics future labour https://siamand.cc/blog/stampdrill-plain-text-api-testing/ https://siamand.cc/blog/stampdrill-plain-text-api-testing/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Why Stampdrill keeps HTTP requests and API tests in plain .stamp files, why the language, runner and command line tool are open source, and what the free CLI does in a terminal and in CI. apitesting cli opensource developertools stampdrill testing https://siamand.cc/blog/whos-not-brave-will-regret/ https://siamand.cc/blog/whos-not-brave-will-regret/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 On a colleague leaving to travel during the AI upheaval, why there is no safe timing to wait for, and Nietzsche's herd tethered to the stake of the present moment. life work ai philosophy nietzsche personal https://siamand.cc/blog/ivan-ilyich-and-the-software-engineer/ https://siamand.cc/blog/ivan-ilyich-and-the-software-engineer/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Mapping The Death of Ivan Ilyich onto what software engineers are going through with AI, and why the people calling it a bubble are the ones living in one. ai software careers tolstoy denial future https://siamand.cc/blog/we-are-not-engineers-we-are-creators/ https://siamand.cc/blog/we-are-not-engineers-we-are-creators/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A job title was never the identity. And now that finishing things has become cheap, we can make things that will never be useful or make money, which is the part worth embracing. creativity identity craft making work software https://siamand.cc/blog/why-i-built-scissor/ https://siamand.cc/blog/why-i-built-scissor/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 I built a vector editor because I got tired of renting access to my own files. On ecosystem lock-in, the switch to subscriptions, and what one person can actually do about it. vectordesign webassembly rust indiedev browsertools scissor https://siamand.cc/blog/why-i-love-this-simple-game/ https://siamand.cc/blog/why-i-love-this-simple-game/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Kelega is a top-down stealth shooter that runs in a browser tab. Why atmosphere and shared tension matter more than graphics or hardware when you play with friends. games gamedev browsergames multiplayer kelega webgames https://siamand.cc/blog/jsglobe-ai-for-good/ https://siamand.cc/blog/jsglobe-ai-for-good/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Free online tools are drowning in ads and uploads. jsglobe is 141 tools that run entirely in your browser, with no sign-up, no uploads and no advertising. webtools privacy opensource ai developertools jsglobe https://siamand.cc/blog/the-services-you-write-once/ https://siamand.cc/blog/the-services-you-write-once/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Why it pays to keep a small set of generic microservices, such as a chat service, a security service issuing JWTs behind session-holding BFFs and a file service, and reuse them across projects, with eXstream as a deliberately small example. microservices architecture jwt bff backend reuse https://siamand.cc/blog/why-hexagonal-fails/ https://siamand.cc/blog/why-hexagonal-fails/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Hexagonal architecture fails for the same reason central planning fails. It is a beautiful design that assumes people are better than they are, and it charges rent in complexity you usually never needed. architecture softwaredesign complexity teams engineering hexagonal https://siamand.cc/blog/hello-xi/ https://siamand.cc/blog/hello-xi/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Why I built Xi: a statically typed language where dependency injection, typed config, function intent, refined types and decision tables are part of the language. programminglanguages compilers xi backend opensource systems https://siamand.cc/blog/productive-without-installing-anything/ https://siamand.cc/blog/productive-without-installing-anything/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Translating, redacting and scripting inside the browser, so small jobs get done without an install approval or a round trip to someone else’s server. browserextensions privacy compliance productivity developertools chrome https://siamand.cc/blog/are-we-in-a-simulation/ https://siamand.cc/blog/are-we-in-a-simulation/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Whether or not we live in a simulation, nothing about how to live changes. A short note on an unfalsifiable question and why it does not matter. philosophy simulation physics thinking personal metaphysics https://siamand.cc/blog/why-i-cannot-shut-up-about-linguistics/ https://siamand.cc/blog/why-i-cannot-shut-up-about-linguistics/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 On loving etymology without being a linguist, the joy of false cognates, and why I lose patience when people turn language into an argument about politics. linguistics etymology curiosity language science personal https://siamand.cc/blog/why-i-started-pricing-flying-lessons/ https://siamand.cc/blog/why-i-started-pricing-flying-lessons/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000 What it actually took to get a driving licence in Germany, why I started reading about flying lessons instead, and the quiet problem with a system where the people selling the lessons also decide when you are ready. life bureaucracy incentives driving learning personal https://siamand.cc/blog/a-cluster-you-can-rebuild/ https://siamand.cc/blog/a-cluster-you-can-rebuild/ Sat, 09 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0000 How I run many small static sites and PWAs on one Kubernetes cluster: a single web server keyed by hostname, Traefik with one Let's Encrypt resolver, storage I can actually find, a private registry fed by GitHub Actions, and everything described in a private repo. kubernetes traefik letsencrypt selfhosting devops storage https://siamand.cc/blog/almost-good/ https://siamand.cc/blog/almost-good/ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:00:00 +0000 On answering "how are you" with "almost good": ranges instead of points, honesty without the full story, and leaving room to still be improving. life language honesty philosophy personal almost