Long-form posts, essays and notes from The Club.
Mostly this is where the engineering goes: how a tool counts a word, why the spell checker ships no dictionary, what breaks when you percent-encode a URL. When a tool has a decision behind it that is not obvious, the post explaining it is usually written before the decision stops being arguable.
October 20, 2026 · Torrey Nommesen
DHH went from AI sceptic to daily user in a year. Notes from five hours on what changed, why the bottleneck is us, and the flood of AI pull requests.
Notes
Read moreSeptember 12, 2026 · Torrey Nommesen
The first post in the new Writing section - what this blog is for and what is coming.
Meta
Read moreSeptember 2, 2026 · Torrey Nommesen
How the Tech Stack Detective guesses what a site is built with, which signals are trustworthy, and why it sometimes finds nothing at all.
Tools
Read moreSeptember 1, 2026 · Torrey Nommesen
Notes I took on a podcast interview with Betsy Stevenson
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