Notes · 3
Short takes
Link commentary, reading notes, thoughts that aren't essays but deserve more than a tweet. Mostly engineering-adjacent.
- Apr 15, 2026 Karpathy's nanochat: the missing-middle abstraction nanochat sits between llama.cpp and a full framework. Worth studying because it shows the abstraction level actually useful for 2026 engineering. github.com
- Apr 10, 2026 Anthropic's Agent Skills + Plugins: the right shape Anthropic's Agent Skills / Plugins spec is the most careful thinking I've seen on writing tools agents can discover, reason about, and invoke safely. docs.anthropic.com
- Apr 5, 2026 Pocket ID is the self-hosted OIDC IdP I wish I'd had years ago For a homelab that needs a real identity provider behind Cloudflare Access without the Keycloak operational weight, Pocket ID is the right-sized middle. github.com