Writing

I approached Anathem with some caution. By the end, I was taking a document about its philosophy to a festival so I could spend a little longer in its world.

Tasks, projects, reading notes, things I want to remember. An agent can help with all of them, provided the note on my phone actually reaches its filesystem.

I wanted to learn how LLM bots worked, but another helpful assistant sounded boring. A slightly ridiculous pig-pirate sounded much more promising.

A pinned tab can keep running Monday's JavaScript while a fresh page loads before its chunks finish uploading. A version marker helps with the first problem; publishing index.html last addresses the second.

I was copying review comments from GitLab into an agent chat. Being the mailman got old, so I built a watcher to deliver the feedback and remember what still needed attention.

A long migration should be easy to pause and resume. An old PHP-to-Symfony rewrite taught me how to move a large Bazel repository without stopping the release train.

Sometimes a browser needs to be in another country while the rest of the laptop stays put. SSH, Tailscale, and a SOCKS5 proxy make that possible.

Writing code used to build some understanding along the way. AI can now produce the diff without producing that understanding.

A number from agricultural history made the AI analogy click: farming did not vanish when labor shrank, and software may be entering a similar turn.

The vibe can start the first pass. Shipping software needs process: research, plans, measurable gates, review, and evidence.