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Quill & Qubit

Where ancient wisdom meets modern building.
Blog, vlog, and newsletter by Bill Heyman.

A quill is the oldest writing instrument.
A qubit is the fundamental unit of quantum computing.

Quill & Qubit lives in the space between — where the timeless and the cutting-edge meet. Technology, philosophy, culture, history, science, AI, and the connections between all of them.

The Builder

40 years of shipping software — from Apple II assembly to IBM mainframes to the first iPhone app with 1M downloads to AI-augmented development.

The Thinker

Stoic philosophy, Hofstadter's strange loops, Keats on beauty and truth, Camus on the absurd. Ideas that outlast the technology they're applied to.

The Intersection

Where Seneca meets sprint planning. Where topology informs software architecture. Where ancient wisdom makes you a better builder.

Unfathomable

AI-powered software development at superhuman speed. What happens when 40 years of pattern recognition meets AI execution.

Build Logs

Real-time documentation

Watch real products get built with AI — from idea to deployed in days, not months.

Techniques

Deep dives

Prompt engineering, context management, architecture patterns. What actually works in practice.

Before & After

The contrast

The 9-month Roshal miracle without AI vs. the 9-day prototype with it. Lived experience, not theory.

Philosophy

What it means

What AI changes about craft, careers, and the meaning of “developer.” The solo builder renaissance.

8 Series

Essays, videos, and interactive explorations across technology and culture.

Build It to Understand It

Learning through construction. Wire a CPU, train a neural net, build a compiler.

The Stoic Technologist

Ancient wisdom applied to modern building. Marcus Aurelius on code review. Seneca on shipping.

Computing's Family Tree

The history of computing told by someone who lived the IBM-to-iPhone-to-AI arc.

Making the Invisible Visible

Revealing hidden structure in everyday technology. Electromagnetic spectra, ray tracing, binary formats.

The Algorithmic Lens

Seeing the world through computational structures. Algorithms, proofs, data visualization.

Decoding Reality

Everything is an encoded message waiting to be parsed. Files, signals, writing systems.

Stay tuned.

Quill & Qubit is coming soon. Get in touch if you want to know when we launch.