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Find Me in the Atmosphere

This weekend, I wired my website into the AT Protocol. It took an afternoon and one stubbornly old config file, and now my writing lives on the network itself. The short version: Bluesky rolled out support for Standard.site, a set of shared lexicons that let long-form writing live on the AT Protocol itself. In plain...

"It's interesting how AI is good at the things I don’t understand, but is somehow dogshit at the things I’m good at..." - Anonymous

AI fills the gaps. Just not at depth

Last month, a Cloudflare engineer used AI to rebuild a major open-source project in under a week. Cost about $1,100. It shipped to production. Around the same time, a different Cloudflare team used AI to fork another project and silently stripped out the security protections the original maintainers had spent years adding. That also shipped....

When the Autocomplete Changes Its Mind

Tailwind usage is at an all-time high. Revenue is down 80%. Documentation traffic dropped 40% over two years. AI didn't kill Tailwind. AI now picks Tailwind. Every prompt. Every team. Without anyone choosing. And the moment it picks something else, every codebase built on top of that decision is on its own. "75% of the...

Unregulated, Unaccountable, Unchecked

Everyone's arguing about which AI tool writes the best code or generates the best images. Meanwhile, the companies building these systems are racing to ship faster, raise more, and consolidate more power than any tech cycle before them. And a small group of researchers, journalists, and engineers have been trying to get your attention about...

It’s Friday. We’re Tired.

It's 4 pm on a Friday. I've approved my last PR of the week. I've reviewed more code today than I wrote. I got a lot done, or at least, the dashboard says I did. But I'm sitting here, and I can't think straight. Not in the dramatic, existential-crisis way. Just... tired. A kind of...

stockpile: know what’s in your arsenal

At some point, I stopped knowing what was on my Mac. A tool here, a dependency my agent dropped in there. Collectively, a mystery. I was losing track. To help, I created stockpile. Not all at once. It was gradual. A tool I installed to try out six months ago. A dependency that an agent...

So I Put My AI Skills in a Marketplace

Everyone's building custom skills for their AI coding assistants right now. Commit helpers, linting rules, project scaffolding. Little markdown files that make Claude Code do things your way instead of the default way. I've been doing the same thing. But the more skills I wrote, the more I wanted them to follow me between machines...

Three AIs Missed It. One Human Didn’t

I had done everything right. Or at least, everything the current playbook says to do. Used AI to fill the gaps, reviewed it myself, then handed it off to more AI. This past week, I got handed a project that required backend work. Not because I have backend experience - I don't, really - but...

AI Chose Your UI (Did It Choose Wrong?)

After years of building, maintaining, and supporting in-house design systems with real tokens, governance, versioning, support, and contribution models, I recently found myself building with Tailwind and shadcn. Thanks, AI! I'm familiar but relatively newish to these tools, so take this for what it is. I'm not anti-AI. I use it every day. But I've...

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