Couch: A Sneak Peek
A sneak peek of couch, an agentic coding workbench created by 100% agentic coding. The process of creating it was very liberating.
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You Decide: An AI-Assisted Voter Guide Built On Your Own Values
you-decide helps a voter work out how to vote according to what they actually care about, in the couple of hours most of us can spare. How it's structured, and how privacy, research accuracy, and full transparency drive the design.
Hot Takes on AI Coding
Hot takes on current trends in AI coding. This is installment 2 of a series of 5 posts.
Building Blocks of AI Coding
AI coding is all the rage; what are the basic building blocks? How should we think about its future? This is the first installment of a series of 5 posts.
Five Months of Coding, in Numbers
A count of code, documents, issues, and commit activity across 15 repositories in my AI coding workflow, from April 20 to October 1, 2026.
Parley: A durable AI Interface for Learning
AI is a great helper to help you access the world's knowledge. However, the current chatbot user interface makes research and learning harder. Have you ever felt inundated with too much information? Parley is different: you have full control of the chat, it's just a text file you can edit.
Birthright Citizenship Ruling
A reflection on the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling and what it says about America.
Skill Binaries and Dynamic Skills
Agent skills are more than prompt folders: they are part of a deterministic shell around a stochastic model. This post walks through two ariadne patterns, skill binaries and dynamic skills, that keep that shell testable, maintainable, and in sync with the codebase.
AI as My Research Workbench
AI is powerful, but it is not an oracle. It does not have a magic wand to create what you want exactly. You own the possibilities, and leverage AI to help at many different altitudes. Here's a concrete example of how I wrote the blog about space data centers. AI is the MATLAB, the Wikipedia, the Excel, the search engine, all packaged into a single tool that you can customize and extend. The capability is there; the human/AI interaction is still being sorted out.
The Case for Space Data Centers
With SpaceX IPO looming, let's take a look at the case of space data center, how realistic it is. As I poked around, I realize it's a matter of time before we run data centers in space, and that we really DO need Starship to pull it off economically. That is, if we look at the problem in the time frame of decades.
Your data, finally for you!
In the era of AI, your personal data can be a lot more valuable to you, as an individual.
A Saturday in Claude Code
Saturday morning, before exercise, I asked Claude one stray question. By afternoon there was a new repo, a pensive, four issues, and a working tool I'm using to write this post.
Saturday Pair — Transcript
The raw chat transcript that produced pair v1 — from 'can you inject text into a TUI?' to a working nvim-driven launcher with multi-session picker, image paste, and a pile of zellij gotchas. Companion to "A Better Claude Input Interface".
AI Native Company
What is an AI Native Company?
Building A Personal Brain Extension, A Teaser
Two weeks of building the substrate underneath an AI-native personal workflow: a base agentic development environment, a personal data access layer, a credential gateway, and a private canvas where ideas form, collide, and grow. Not ready for release yet — here's a sneak peek.
A New Home
Moving to an Astro based new home for my personal blog. And a new location.
A Tale of Two Harnesses
Adding tool calls to Parley on a flight, watching Claude make a mess, then drawing the architecture boundary for Claude and watching it execute flawlessly within it. The eureka: Claude Code is the execution harness, Parley is the interface for human to inspect and influence — both running on the same shared filesystem state.
WhatsApp GDPR Fine
A close read of the EDPB's €225M WhatsApp fine. The fine is a catch-22 for technical companies, that you need to write your privacy notice concise and easy to understand enough for laymen, yet need to be comprehensive enough to cover all basis. An extremely bad example of regulatory overreach, lacking resemblance of proportionality
Loom workflow system
A parley sketching "Loom": after parley, issues, and vision, a fourth repo-native tool for recurring agent-driven routines — the morning health check, the weekly oncall report. Together they form a kind of operating system for how a startup actually thinks.