A developer knowledge base and portfolio.https://garywu.github.io/https://garywu.github.io/posts/compounding-research-corpora/https://garywu.github.io/posts/compounding-research-corpora/Concept-shaped knowledge bases with dense bidirectional links compound across articles; topic-shaped ones produce excellent stand-alones.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:50:54 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/ambient-spaced-repetition/https://garywu.github.io/posts/ambient-spaced-repetition/Osmosis learning via desktop notifications and HUD displays, utilizing spaced repetition algorithms to naturally build memory.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/api-mom-intelligent-router/https://garywu.github.io/posts/api-mom-intelligent-router/The layer between your agent and the LLM market — routes by capability, optimizes for cost, abstracts away every provider decision.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/ai-context-efficiency/https://garywu.github.io/posts/ai-context-efficiency/A practitioner's field guide to context engineering for AI coding assistants.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/ai-usage-postmortem/https://garywu.github.io/posts/ai-usage-postmortem/Analyzing quota blindness, token pricing blindspots, and the need for usage monitoring across AI tools.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/claude-code-context-monitoring/https://garywu.github.io/posts/claude-code-context-monitoring/Complete reference for setting up worktrees and configuring the hook system for AI agent teammates.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/autonomous-agent-frameworks/https://garywu.github.io/posts/autonomous-agent-frameworks/A deep dive into why every agent framework converges on similar patterns, and how to choose the right one.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/composable-processor-architecture/https://garywu.github.io/posts/composable-processor-architecture/Processors are decoupled by data, not coupled by flow. A modular architecture for scalable AI content and processing pipelines.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/durable-object-rate-limiting/https://garywu.github.io/posts/durable-object-rate-limiting/How to build an adaptive rate limiting controller using Durable Objects to prevent getting blocked when crawling.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/content-rewards-clipping-guide/https://garywu.github.io/posts/content-rewards-clipping-guide/A comprehensive guide to the content rewards and clipping business model.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/disk-reads-in-order/https://garywu.github.io/posts/disk-reads-in-order/The history and science of sequential I/O optimization, from spinning disks to modern OS I/O schedulers and file system layouts.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/funnel-design-free-tools/https://garywu.github.io/posts/funnel-design-free-tools/The playbook for converting traffic from free web tools into email captures, active users, and paying customers.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/lcd-display-protocols/https://garywu.github.io/posts/lcd-display-protocols/Understanding display protocols from HD44780 to RGB LED panels, and integrating them into software-defined virtual displays.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/multi-agent-pipeline-workers/https://garywu.github.io/posts/multi-agent-pipeline-workers/Architecture overview and production patterns for orchestrating multi-agent pipelines on the edge.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/multi-machine-ai-agent-deployment/https://garywu.github.io/posts/multi-machine-ai-agent-deployment/Architecture and protocols for deploying AI agents across multiple machines, discovering capabilities, and submitting work that requires GPU.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/notification-system-design-patterns/https://garywu.github.io/posts/notification-system-design-patterns/From iOS/macOS/Android native behavior to building an intelligent, cross-platform HUD notification API.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/ghostty-tmux-ai-integration/https://garywu.github.io/posts/ghostty-tmux-ai-integration/Core concepts and patterns for integrating Ghostty and Tmux with AI workflows, handling background jobs and timeouts.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/production-ai-antipatterns/https://garywu.github.io/posts/production-ai-antipatterns/A guide to the most common mistakes in production AI systems, from quota blindness to uncontrolled cron spending.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/progress-visibility/https://garywu.github.io/posts/progress-visibility/After tqdm: how to implement robust progress reporting and checkpointing for long-running batch and agent processes.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/securing-servers-tailscale-cloudflare/https://garywu.github.io/posts/securing-servers-tailscale-cloudflare/Layering Cloudflare Access, Tunnels, and Tailscale Mesh VPNs to completely shield your origins and servers from the public internet.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/self-healing-parsers/https://garywu.github.io/posts/self-healing-parsers/Building parsers and scrapers that automatically recover and roll back when target structures change or break.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/tanstack-start-cloudflare-workers/https://garywu.github.io/posts/tanstack-start-cloudflare-workers/A guide to deploying TanStack Start full-stack applications to Cloudflare Workers correctly, covering architecture, bindings, and D1 integration.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/programmable-3d-avatar-faces/https://garywu.github.io/posts/programmable-3d-avatar-faces/Engines, APIs, and real-time control techniques for building expressive 3D avatars for AI assistants.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/tldraw-tanstack-problems/https://garywu.github.io/posts/tldraw-tanstack-problems/Working around SSR framework crashes, Vite HMR breakages, and library configuration issues when embedding tldraw.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/twitter-bookmark-export-methods/https://garywu.github.io/posts/twitter-bookmark-export-methods/Every method explained with code, from GraphQL interception to DOM scraping, to safely and reliably backup Twitter bookmarks.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/video-creation-resources/https://garywu.github.io/posts/video-creation-resources/A complete resource index for video creation, tools, and pipelines.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/video-production-techniques/https://garywu.github.io/posts/video-production-techniques/A guide on Hollywood-style video production techniques and FFmpeg effects.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/viral-video-bible/https://garywu.github.io/posts/viral-video-bible/The complete playbook for creating and scaling viral video content.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:11:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-cost-observability/https://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-cost-observability/How we burned $19.63 in D1 row reads and built a free zero-cost monitoring system using Workers Analytics Engine.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:05:37 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-event-driven-architecture/https://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-event-driven-architecture/Connecting Durable Objects, queues, and agents to form a cohesive, stateful event-driven architecture.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:05:37 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-queue-architecture/https://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-queue-architecture/How to design queue topologies for multi-service architectures, implement idempotent consumers, and handle fan-out patterns.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:05:37 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-worker-analytics/https://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-worker-analytics/How to build operational monitoring for continuous Cloudflare Workers pipelines that costs essentially nothing.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:05:37 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/autonomy-is-substrate-discipline/https://garywu.github.io/posts/autonomy-is-substrate-discipline/Why all working autonomous agents look the same: the three universal moves that make any agent autonomous.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:22:42 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/a-repo-is-context/https://garywu.github.io/posts/a-repo-is-context/A project is nothing but context. Git is the right medium for context — content-addressable, versioned, permanent.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:22:42 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/two-class-agent-taxonomy/https://garywu.github.io/posts/two-class-agent-taxonomy/Agent frameworks split cleanly into two classes based on tool access, determining whether they belong in containers or on edge runtimes.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:22:42 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/context-is-a-harness-artifact/https://garywu.github.io/posts/context-is-a-harness-artifact/LLMs are stateless. A conversation is a UX fiction. Long-horizon autonomy is a question of harness design, not model capability.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:54:51 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/dreaming-and-the-effect-gate/https://garywu.github.io/posts/dreaming-and-the-effect-gate/Why an active-memory substrate needs two execution modes — awake and dream — and a hard gate on effectful pipelines in dream mode.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:54:51 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/goal-generation-is-agency/https://garywu.github.io/posts/goal-generation-is-agency/Agency is the capacity to generate goals from ambient state — not the capacity to execute given goals.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:54:51 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/memory-as-lazy-queries-over-the-world/https://garywu.github.io/posts/memory-as-lazy-queries-over-the-world/In a stateful LLM system, memory is not a mirror of the world — it is a graph of lazy queries that resolve into the world on demand.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:54:51 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/thinking-is-substrate-self-modification/https://garywu.github.io/posts/thinking-is-substrate-self-modification/Thinking is not something a model does. It is something a substrate does to itself, using models as workers.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:54:51 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/the-harness-is-a-prompt-compiler/https://garywu.github.io/posts/the-harness-is-a-prompt-compiler/Every LLM system is implicitly a compiler. Given accumulated history and a goal, it produces a prompt. The quality of that compiler is the entire game.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:54:51 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-service-binding-pitfalls/https://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-service-binding-pitfalls/When Worker-to-Worker communication silently breaks because your target Worker exports a Durable Object class.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:45:36 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/inversion-of-control-data-runner-reconciler/https://garywu.github.io/posts/inversion-of-control-data-runner-reconciler/Don't hardcode how functions are called, where they run, or who calls them. Inject all of these decisions to enable multi-runtime systems.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:31:06 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/prime-conversational-control-plane/https://garywu.github.io/posts/prime-conversational-control-plane/The human talks to the business. The business talks to the code. Every conversation makes the autonomous organization smarter.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:39:09 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/self-hosted-to-serverless-websocket-relay/https://garywu.github.io/posts/self-hosted-to-serverless-websocket-relay/Using Cloudflare Durable Objects to manage persistent connections, fan-out routing, and shared in-memory state for real-time synchronization.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:39:09 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/capability-primitive-decomposition/https://garywu.github.io/posts/capability-primitive-decomposition/Decomposing monolithic applications into self-registering functions for better composition and cost economics.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:56 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/capability-reliability-reality/https://garywu.github.io/posts/capability-reliability-reality/No media processing service is reliable enough to trust. The architecture that survives production expects everything to fail and handles it gracefully.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:56 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/composable-pipeline-capabilities/https://garywu.github.io/posts/composable-pipeline-capabilities/The recursive property of workflows — pipelines calling pipelines calling pipelines — is the most underexplored idea in workflow orchestration.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:56 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/cost-aware-capability-orchestration/https://garywu.github.io/posts/cost-aware-capability-orchestration/Every pipeline step has a cost. The orchestrator must treat budget like it treats timeout — a hard constraint that shapes every routing decision.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:56 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/durable-objects-capability-registry/https://garywu.github.io/posts/durable-objects-capability-registry/A service registry does not need a consensus protocol or a cluster. A Durable Object is already the single source of truth for its capability.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:56 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/media-store-content-addressable/https://garywu.github.io/posts/media-store-content-addressable/Content-addressable storage as an infrastructure primitive that naturally caches and deduplicates intermediate pipeline artifacts.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:56 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/rfc-process-multi-repo/https://garywu.github.io/posts/rfc-process-multi-repo/A design document protocol that lives in the owning repo, cross-references dependencies, and coordinates architectural shifts.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:56 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/tailscale-cloudflare-capability-bridge/https://garywu.github.io/posts/tailscale-cloudflare-capability-bridge/Using Tailscale Funnel to bridge Cloudflare Workers with local GPU workstations or APIs sitting behind CGNAT.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:56 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/async-generators-streaming-pipelines/https://garywu.github.io/posts/async-generators-streaming-pipelines/Why async generators are the right primitive for data pipelines—backpressure, composition, and natural event flow.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/layered-architecture-data-systems/https://garywu.github.io/posts/layered-architecture-data-systems/How dependency injection separates pure logic from I/O, enabling testable, multi-runtime data systems.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/testing-distributed-systems-locally/https://garywu.github.io/posts/testing-distributed-systems-locally/How to test complex distributed systems using in-memory databases, mock filesystems, and dependency injection.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/automating-slatejs-from-chrome-extension/https://garywu.github.io/posts/automating-slatejs-from-chrome-extension/The only technique that reliably gets text into Slate's internal model from a Chrome MV3 extension service worker.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:57:53 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/faceless-channel-playbook/https://garywu.github.io/posts/faceless-channel-playbook/Building an AI-Powered short-form video engine. The floor for quality has risen; survive by treating AI as a production accelerator.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:17:49 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/bandwidth-wall-physical-first-backup/https://garywu.github.io/posts/bandwidth-wall-physical-first-backup/Cloud backup has a physics problem. At any realistic residential upload speed, terabytes of data cannot cross the internet in a human time frame.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:18:17 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/metadata-economics-personal-storage/https://garywu.github.io/posts/metadata-economics-personal-storage/Why the catalog is cheaper than you think: demonstrating the 1,000:1 ratio between content byte size and metadata index size.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:10:06 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/distributed-block-storage-home/https://garywu.github.io/posts/distributed-block-storage-home/Content-addressed block distribution fixes idle capacity by treating the drives you already own as a cohesive storage pool.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:35:00 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/recurring-automation-governance/https://garywu.github.io/posts/recurring-automation-governance/A formal governance gate, observability checklist, and kill switch architecture for any automated pipeline that runs more than once.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:09:44 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-autonomous-pipeline/https://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-autonomous-pipeline/How to wire Workers, Queues, Durable Objects, D1, R2, and Workflows into a self-driving data pipeline.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:09:43 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-durable-objects-patterns/https://garywu.github.io/posts/cloudflare-durable-objects-patterns/Stateful compute primitives for the edge — four production patterns, design principles, and practical examples.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:09:42 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/three-layer-ai-agent-architecture/https://garywu.github.io/posts/three-layer-ai-agent-architecture/How to separate agent state from LLM logic and API metering to build intelligent, financially observable agents.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:09:40 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/org-prime-agent-architecture/https://garywu.github.io/posts/org-prime-agent-architecture/A control plane architecture for autonomous multi-repo organizations — built on Cloudflare Agents SDK, Durable Objects, and GitHub as long-term memory.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:09:39 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/escalation-ladder-skill-crystallization/https://garywu.github.io/posts/escalation-ladder-skill-crystallization/The right architecture treats failure as fuel — successful fixes become permanent skills, making the system progressively more capable.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:09:38 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/tight-loop/https://garywu.github.io/posts/tight-loop/Applying the Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop, control theory, and chaos engineering to build high-reliability software systems.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:09:25 GMThttps://garywu.github.io/posts/autonomous-entity-pattern/https://garywu.github.io/posts/autonomous-entity-pattern/Every complex domain is a hierarchy of entities. Each entity needs a persistent agent with memory, decision-making, and the ability to delegate work.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:08:34 GMT