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AI · 3 MIN READ

J-Space: Where AI Thoughts Live

Anthropic just found a hidden workspace inside Claude where silent reasoning happens before a single token is written. Here is where it lives and how it works.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Jul 2026
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ELIXIR · 8 MIN READ

Building Planck #4: Introducing Planck, an Agent Harness in Elixir

Three constraints shaped Planck: context, specialization, and model cost. Here is what an AI agent framework looks like when you build on OTP.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · May 2026
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AI · 2 MIN READ

Building Planck #3: The 20/80 Split: Why the Future Is Mostly Local

Frontier models are brilliant but expensive. Local models are fast and cheap but need guidance. Here's how to combine them.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · May 2026
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AI · 2 MIN READ

Building Planck #2: Specialized Teams vs General Agents

Why one AI trying to do everything produces mediocre results and how to design teams that don't.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · May 2026
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AI · 6 MIN READ

Building Planck #1: Context Is the Real Problem

Why giving your AI agent more context usually makes it worse and what to do instead.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Apr 2026
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BLOCKCHAIN · 5 MIN READ

ICON 2.0: Realtime Decentralized Quote Prices

By leveraging one of ICON's BTP features, we get realtime quote prices from Balanced DEx

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Mar 2022
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C/C++ · 1 MIN READ

My Worst Bug

Debugging C/C++ can sometimes be a nightmare.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Apr 2020
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PERSONAL · 3 MIN READ

My Road to 8 Week Streak

Writing is hard. Writing requires practice.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Apr 2020
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ELIXIR · 9 MIN READ

AyeSQL: Writing Raw SQL in Elixir

Sometimes good'ol SQL is better than any abstraction.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Mar 2020
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ELIXIR · 3 MIN READ

Elixir Pubsub In Less Than 50 Lines

A small Elixir pubsub implementation using built-in module :pg2

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Mar 2020
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DEVOPS · 3 MIN READ

Managing Dotfiles with Ansible

A small tutorial on how to use Ansible to manage your dotfiles.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Mar 2020
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DEVOPS · 2 MIN READ

Oath: Don't Loose Your Keys!

A ZSH plugin for handling your keys.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Mar 2020
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ELIXIR · 5 MIN READ

Skogsrå: Simplifying Your Elixir Configuration

Improving Elixir configurations for small and large projects.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Feb 2020
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ELIXIR · 11 MIN READ

Yggdrasil: Easy Pub-Sub in Elixir

An overview of Yggdrasil's capabilities.

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Jul 2019
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JEKYLL · 1 MIN READ

Syntax highlighting in Jekyll

Using Redcarpet markdown renderer to add pygments to Jekyll

Alex de SousaAlex de Sousa · Jun 2019