Systems Polymath

Daily signals from the frontier of software, systems architecture
& radical self-education.

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Core Obsessions

Open CS 2.0

OSSU + ForrestKnight forks. Modular degree paths. Real commits > certificates. Industry legibility through public proof-of-work.

Auth 2026

Clerk vs Supabase vs Firebase vs raw OAuth+Authlib. Startup velocity vs long-term control. The new holy wars of identity.

Editor Endgame

Why disciplined minds still kneel to PyCharm in 2026. Refactor velocity. Debug transcendence. The last IDE standing.

Salary Arbitrage Map

US remote salary × India living cost. Revenue/employee ceilings. Ownership vs execution leverage. The quiet seven-figure equation.

Storage Truth

256 GB → 8 TB → petabyte aspirations. What serious solo builders & small teams actually run in 2026.

Open Teaching → Revenue

How radical transparency + X threads + GitHub stars compound into sustainable knowledge capital.

Launchpads & Playgrounds

OSSU Computer Science

Crowd-sourced, self-paced, degree-equivalent CS curriculum. No tuition. Maximum signal-to-noise.

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ForrestKnight / open-source-cs

Curated path. Heavy emphasis on real projects & public contributions. Portfolio > parchment.

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