Re-measuring simpleconf After a Round of Performance Work
In early August I wrote an introduction to simpleconf , the small Go config service I've used since 2017. …
Shaun Li
Building software that stays up,
and writing down how it behaves.
寫系統，也寫下量測。
Full-stack technology leader with 25+ years of experience evolving alongside the software industry. A veteran architect and former R&D Director who remains deeply hands-on with emerging technologies, specializing in scalable systems, high-performing engineering cultures, and the design and orchestration of AI agents and agentic workflows to accelerate delivery and amplify team capabilities.
Writing
Jev and the Return of System One: What Cheap, Calibrated Decisions Unlock
Daniel Kahneman spent a career arguing that human cognition runs on two systems: System One, fast, cheap, intuitive, pat…
jst 0.1.0: Rewriting My First npm Package After 15 Years
A few weeks ago, I published a retrospective on jst , the very first npm package I shipped back in April 2011 during the…
The Harness Paradox: What OpenAI's Astra Actually Proved About AGI
OpenAI finally said the letters out loud. On September 3, 2026, with the official rollout of GPT-6 Astra, Greg Brockman…
Downloads Do Not Measure the App
My barcode app has been on the Google Play Store since May 2020. …
Ten Million Rows In, One Hundred Out
Glide will store ten million rows for you. Its own documentation says so: Big Tables hold "up to 10 million rows," again…
Every SaaS Shipped an MCP Server. None of Them Shipped an Identity.
Ask an agent to clean up the duplicate rows in your CRM base. It is a boring task, it is exactly the kind of thing you b…
Against GNOME and KDE — and Why Every Desktop Converges on Them Anyway
The Linux desktop has been having the same argument since 1998, and the argument has a structure: a big integrated deskt…
Bookmarks · 書籤
more →- What Is OpenAI Decisions API? A Practical Guide
- Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
- Running a Software Factory Efficiently at Uber Scale
- The Forgotten First Principle of Software Delivery
- Revolutionizing Money Movements at Scale with Strong Data Consistency
- Tracking the money — Scaling financial reporting at Airbnb
