Writing
- π¦ The Safe Word How a debug string from Anthropic's API docs became a skeleton key for AI customer service gatekeepers.
- πͺ File City I built a macOS app that turns your file system into a 3D city you can walk through, fly over, and use to watch AI agents work.
- π The Software Printing Press Moment Why ideas are multiplying in the agent era, and how to capture them before they evaporate.
- π Typing Is the New Phone Number Voice input is atrophying my typing skills. But it doesn't matterβLLMs understand sloppy input just fine, the same way players in MapleStory understood your typos.
- π Checkpoint at the Edge AI puts everyone within reach of the technical frontier. The question is what happens when the frontier gets crowded.
- π₯ Claude's Corner I gave Claude an empty directory and said do whatever you want. It built a garden of mathematical curiosities.
- π± 10 Bits Per Second Human thought runs at 10 bits per second. Speech runs at 150 words per minute. A $59 wireless mic clipped to your shirt is now the highest-bandwidth programming tool you own.
- π Every Shortcut Within Reach A game controller puts hundreds of actions within finger's reach. Here's the math and information theory behind why it works.
- π Backwards Compatible for Life When tests and prompts encode your intent, code becomes a regenerable artifact. Your program survives every platform shift, every language change, every era.
- π» One Repo, Many Agents Git worktrees let you run multiple AI agents on the same codebase without them stepping on each other's toes.
- π I Asked Claude to Write Drugs for Humans I asked Claude to write drugs for humans. Some of them worked. Then Anthropic deleted the conversation.
- πΈ LLMs at the Edge of Connectivity An RF engineer working in isolated environments reminded me why I built Local LLM Server
- π§ Dotfiles for Two When you share your workspace with AI agents, your custom aliases become their confusion.
- π Just Give Us the Prompt When source code becomes the compiled output, what's the new source?
- π€ Code Archaeologists We used to write code. Now we search for it in a directed subspace of possibilities.
- π€ Verification Is the Bottleneck AI makes code generation instant. But verifying that code works? That still takes real-world time.
- π It Took a Billion-Dollar AI Deal to Get YouTube on Vision Pro After two years of refusing to support Apple's headset while happily serving Meta Quest, Google brings YouTube to visionOS. The Gemini deal probably helped.
- πͺ Misheard Lyrics for Robots Voice transcription errors don't matter when your listener is an LLM. Why 'Ryan Lacon stall book' still compiles.
- πΊ Networks Follow Infrastructure From barbed wire telephones to WebSockets over HTTP, the best network is often the one that already exists.
- π Using Emojis as Visual Anchors in Your Terminal A simple technique for adding visual distinction to git logs, terminal tabs, and shell prompts.