Writing

Programming, music, electronics, AI, and whatever else.

• 2026-09-04

  Abstract, Convex, and How We Get Smarter

  I went to Convex's Abstract conference expecting software talks. I left thinking about abstraction as the reason humans can think beyond one person's limits.

• 2026-05-20

  Sand — simple VMs for Mac

  I wanted a stupid simple way to run coding agents in a little Linux box on my Mac. Sand is the Swift CLI I built for that.

• 2026-05-01

  They Gave Us a Taste of Honey

  Claude limits are the itch. The bigger problem is that the subsidized part of the AI cycle is starting to look familiar.

• 2026-03-24

  Wait, Could You Be Wrong?

  I went looking for better multi-agent workflows and ended up caring more about one dumb follow-up question than any of them.

• 2026-02-23

  Spoiled by Smart Models

  Anthropic clarified their rules and the panic was real. But the dependency we built is the actual problem.

• 2026-02-18

  Agent Peeper

  A skill workflow ran for an hour. Stuck in a loop, hung on a terminal command, and I had no way to know. So Claude Code Watcher became Agent Peeper.

• 2026-02-13

  The Engine Behind the Hype

  OpenClaw has north of 100K GitHub stars, three name changes, and a crypto scam. Everybody’s talking about the lobster. Nobody’s talking about the engine underneath it.

• 2026-02-12

  Why I Built a Static Site Generator in 2025

  A potential client looked me up and found a portfolio site from my LA sound design days. He thought that’s what I still did.

• 2026-02-09

  The Interfaceless Interface

  “Computer, show me the crew manifest.” No login. No hamburger menu. Just a question and an answer. Star Trek’s been doing this since 1966.

• 2026-01-30

  Running AI Models Locally

  I broke my own rule and bought a first-gen Apple product to run AI locally. The M4 marketing was that convincing.