Recent
Latest posts and articles.
fortran's wager
Pascal built the Pascaline in 1642 — one of the first mechanical calculators. Gears, dials, carry mechanisms. He spent years trying to offload arithmetic from human minds into metal. A programming …
Tradpute
Most of what we’re calling “AI” at the product layer is just traditional computing in a trenchcoat.
I’ve been using a word for this: tradpute. Traditional computing. CPUs, …
The Hard Part Isn't the Tool
I set up OpenClaw in forty minutes. Gateway running, Discord connected, models hooked up, skills installed. It worked first try. Good docs, clean implementation, zero drama.
Then I opened SOUL.md — …
slashface
Slashface, V3R. Joshua Tree. Probably 2014 or so.
This is a highball. You fall, you break something. No rope, no pad that matters at that height. Just you and the rock and the decision to keep going. …
dogs are analog AI
super mega giga ultra productive
multi-tabling
Riley Brown said something that caught my attention:
“AI Agent Workflows in 2026 will look like Online Poker in 2010. During the online poker boom, really good players started multi-tabling — …
upgrading old youtube rips
Had 45 hours of synthwave I’d ripped from YouTube over the years. Low or mid static bitrate and more importantly, no album art, with of course bogus filenames like Timecop1983 - Night Drive …
The Formative Years
Building an infrastructure toolkit with AI at 3 AM. A story told through commit timestamps.
The Radar Paradox
How License Radar's design emerged from iteration, rejection, and paying attention when something accidentally worked.