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goyim.codes is a digital beit midrash: two anonymous developers who learn software the way you learn a daf. Read the source, argue the source, annotate everything, ship anyway. Our mothers still think we fix printers.
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Every sefer here started as an argument. The winner wrote the README. The loser wrote the tests.
Anthropic's Claude Code, opened like a gemara. The shipped binary is carved apart version by version: feature flags, telemetry events, device fingerprinting, cloud surfaces, all of it. Every claim is traced to a real function body in the extracted bundle, because “it showed up in strings output” is not a source.
A desktop trading app that phones home constantly, taught to sit and learn locally. A hybrid proxy and mock server unpicks the auth and OAuth flow so the broker connection survives the night on its own. Educational, documented, reproducible: the license stays honored, the cloud becomes optional.
The shelf is patient. New seforim appear when the machlokes resolves. Nu, we'll see.
Haskamos
Every proper sefer opens with approbations from the gedolim of the generation. Ours came back with notes.
Two fine boys. Very smart. Still single, if you're asking.
He sits all day at the computer. This is a parnassah?
I was told there would be a minyan.
The code is kosher l'mehadrin. The commit history, less so.
“Learn a real trade,” I said. So he learned Assembly.
A chavruta is a study partnership: two people, one text, zero mercy. Ours happens to meet over a diff.
Reads compiled binaries for leisure. Davens shacharis, then git blame, and treats both as morning obligations. Holds that any system becomes Torah if you annotate it hard enough, and is currently three versions deep into somebody else's bundle to prove it.
Points a debugger at anything that phones home and does not stop until it runs locally, inside the eruv. Will not mix meat and dairy, frontend and backend, or tabs and spaces. Believes a cloud dependency is just a fence nobody agreed to.
Names withheld as a matter of principle. If you know, you know. If you don't, gut Shabbos.
