I just watched David Heinemeier Hansson talk to Lex Fridman for five hours. Five. Hours. And the whole time I kept thinking: this guy is just like me. Then I did the math. Where I'm a third-level wizard, DHH is an eleventh-level wizard. Where he can hold sixteen threads in his head and run sixteen agents at once, I top out at three before I start dropping things. Where he has an unlimited bucket of tokens to throw at a problem, I'm watching the meter — every bit of agentic magic I cast costs me actual dollars, and I feel…
This is the first post on the rebuilt Backbyrner. The whole blog is flat HTML — no framework, no database, no server-side anything. How it works Write a Markdown file in articles/ , run python3 build.py , and commit the result. The build script turns each .md into a styled page under blog/ and regenerates blog/index.html with the title, date, and first hundred words of every article, newest first. That is the entire engine. If GitHub Pages is serving the site, pushing the commit is the publish step. Images Drop image files in articles/assets/ and link them from the post:…
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