Writing on AI engineering, distributed systems, and open-source development.https://ariccamarata.com/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/cascade-today-all-in-one/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/cascade-today-all-in-one/A month in, Cascade is a real product. What I learned about multi-model routing, hybrid retrieval (RAG, RRF, reranking), and improving a coding harness instead of replacing it.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/building-curtain-in-an-afternoon/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/building-curtain-in-an-afternoon/macOS Screen Sharing is excellent, but it leaves one real privacy gap. The fix is simple, yet it usually hides behind pricey paid tools, so I built an open-source version in an afternoon.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/starting-cascade-early-lessons/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/starting-cascade-early-lessons/Why I started building Cascade, and the first hard problems that showed up when you try to wrap a coding agent with your own tooling.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/ml-experiments-to-production/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/ml-experiments-to-production/I have been experimenting with machine learning since 2016, from TensorFlow models to LLM-powered agents. Here is what actually works in production versus what stays in notebooks.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/building-clawde/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/building-clawde/ClawDE is an AI development environment with a persistent Rust daemon at its core. Building it taught me where AI agents excel and where they still fall short.Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/building-nself/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/building-nself/I built nSelf because managed backend platforms kept raising prices and adding lock-in. Here is what I learned building an open-source alternative that deploys with a single command.Sun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/converting-nrel-spa-to-javascript/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/converting-nrel-spa-to-javascript/How I converted the C-based NREL Solar Position Algorithm to JavaScript while maintaining near-native performance and +/-0.0003 degree accuracy for solar calculations.Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/react-at-scale/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/react-at-scale/Building React applications for Fortune 500 clients taught me that the hard problems are never about React itself. They are about architecture, state management, and team coordination.Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/evolution-of-php/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/evolution-of-php/PHP has come a long way from its origins as a simple templating language. With PHP 7 and 8, it is now a genuinely fast, type-safe language powering serious enterprise applications.Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://ariccamarata.com/blog/nodejs-changed-everything/https://ariccamarata.com/blog/nodejs-changed-everything/Node.js did not just bring JavaScript to the server. It unified the entire development stack and created the largest package ecosystem in software history.Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT