Articles treat various subjects in a single page, contrary to series.
2026
CommitLLM: How to Verify an LLM Inference
LLM APIs ask you to trust that the provider ran the model and settings they advertise. CommitLLM adds cryptographic receipts and audits without zero-knowledge prover costs.
Self-Replicating Programs Emerge from Random Noise
Turing completeness is a shallow pit you fall into. Self-replication is an even shallower one. A recent paper shows that self-replicating programs spontaneously emerge from soups of random code, no design required.
Fede’s Guide to a Healthier Life
An ordered, evidence-based health guide for nerds who used to think the body didn’t matter.
China is trying to commoditize the complement
What happens to the West’s services advantage when strong AI models are free, portable, and running on every laptop?
Building a SaaS with Elixir/Phoenix and React
Our stack and practices for building SaaS applications: Elixir on the backend, React on the frontend, Nix for everything else. No Docker. No Kubernetes.
Fede’s Guide to Type Systems: From Generics to Dependent Types
A practical guide through the landscape of type systems, from everyday generics to dependent types that prove correctness, with examples in Rust, Scala, and Idris
2025
Crypto doctrine
Crypto found product-market fit where trust is weakest: inflationary or censored economies, and internet-native communities that need programmable coordination and markets.
2023
Zero-Knowledge Proofs and the Economics of Verification
The proving-verification asymmetry in zero-knowledge proofs is what makes them economically meaningful: proving is expensive, verification is cheap, and that gap changes what systems can be built without trust.