Inquiring minds want to know.

This is The One

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One more time — I'm looking for new consulting clients.

Some ways I can help:

∙ Fractional tech leadership (tackling "leadership debt" in small eng orgs)
∙ Full-stack, 0 to 1 projects
∙ Language design & impl (eg with @ohmjs.org)
∙ JavaScript/TypeScript perf

(🔁 appreciated)

AI agents let me move with incredible velocity, but it is easy for my understanding of the codebase to fall hopelessly behind. What got built? How does it work?

How might we stay in the loop and avoid gradual disempowerment? Can we build systems that allow understanding to keep pace with creation?

"cybernetic documents"

Yes.

bsky.app/profile/hodg...

We're calling it a "calming agentic harness" and not a "_weighted_ blanket?"

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

bsky.app/profile/just...

That same dynamic is what previously led Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, and Roger Nichols to invent the first sequencer ┄ Wendel even got its own RIAA platinum record for Gaucho

s/effects/events

Was so glad to see gospel of canonical log lines/wide effects spread over the holidays ┄ and so disappointing that this is the artifact that did it

Especially because the author has an excellent pre-existing post that deserves to be in canon with Brandur and Charity: boristane.com/blog/observa...

That "pop culture" remark is almost certainly mentioned somewhere in there, but the most immediately accessible reference I know of is this interview in Dr. Dobbs: archive.is/CPo7H

I've gotten surprisingly high mileage out of grug-brain-dev.md

(Will also bring in the wise elders as trusted .md advisors now too...)

Most terrifying rendition of "...the call's coming from inside the house" I've ever read

Hope you told them "your data set fits in RAM", and that they paid you $10k for saving them $500k

Imagine:

- sipping from the fuddling cup, while
- sitting on the joggling board

Fuddling and joggling
At the same time...

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Functional
Performant
Verbose
Flat
As complex as it needs to be

if anybody has a metal detector to lend tomorrow in NYC, lmk! good cause (lost ring - not mine) xxxxxxxxxxx

Anybody in nyc got a metal detector?

That's the data model spirit line
exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/less-than-pe...

Rewriting the Californian Ideology - American Affairs Journal In this sense, tech today is less Jeffersonian than the first Californian Ideology suggested, celebrating the hacker, the dropout, and the lone builder, with the profound skepticism of centralized pow...

Another ++ to the follow up list: americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/05/rewr...

> spotify PM laughs and says "it's a good podcast transcript sir"

Am only able to entrust my secrets and sins to Spokane's Garbage Goat, designed and created by Paula Mary Turnbull, The Welding Nun

Pleasing synchronicity @jdmccafferty.bsky.social @scotfot.bsky.social

Proposing irrevocable fork in the road to unsuspecting bystanders at the little free library