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ooo-yay.bsky.social

@ooo-yay.bsky.social

Software engineer living between the Bay area and the PNW. Maintainer of Cascade Chat and co-maintainer of Athens Module Proxy. https://ooo-yay.com/blog

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ooo-yay.comJul 22, 2026

Working definitions

English is a pretty expressive language. That comes with a lot of upsides, but it also comes with the notable downside that talking about things with understanding becomes more difficult when two parties don't understand each other's working definitions. This is a log of mine.

opinionculture

ooo-yay.comJul 22, 2026

Codeberg banned code it can't identify

Codeberg's members voted to ban projects mostly written by AI. They did not explain how anyone is supposed to prove that a project violates the rule.

aiopen source

ooo-yay.comJul 19, 2026

What comes after chat?

Slack built chat. Teams turned it into a distribution war. Agents are forcing the next collaboration product to compete on architecture again.

businesssoftware

ooo-yay.comJul 16, 2026

Why Cascade Chat kept disconnecting

Cascade Chat could connect to Libera.Chat just fine and then lose the socket a few seconds later. Finding out why took several PRs and a rethink of its event architecture.

architectureevent-driven-systems

ooo-yay.comJul 12, 2026

The most powerful AI product decision is invisible

The best use of AI in a product may be the part the customer never recognizes as AI at all.

aiproduct

ooo-yay.comJun 26, 2026

Cascade Chat has moved to an ADLC

Cascade Chat now runs on an Agentic Development Lifecycle. Agents write the code, Playwright verifies it, and the only human decisions left are ideation, architecture, and the release gate.

engineeringai

ooo-yay.comJun 21, 2026

CalVer is just better

Semantic versioning signals intent. Calendar versioning tells you when. The second one is more useful.

engineeringtools

ooo-yay.comJun 20, 2026

Are we (re-)approaching the year of applications on the desktop?

Desktop software is having a quiet revival. After years of SaaS monoculture, frameworks like Wails and Tauri are enabling a new generation of native-feeling apps built with familiar web technologies — at a fraction of Electron's resource cost. Wails v3's first-class in-app updates might be what finally tips the scale.

engineeringdesktop

ooo-yay.comJun 18, 2026

I dumped Cursor

As is tradition, my workflow continues to evolve at a rapid pace. I've since dumped Cursor in favor of a new stack.

engineeringai

ooo-yay.comJun 8, 2026

Budgeting with Claude

Wiring SimpleFIN, a self-hosted Actual Budget instance, and Claude Desktop together over MCP so I can actually talk to my money — and walk into my financial planner's office already knowing the picture.

aifinance

ooo-yay.comMay 16, 2026

Engineering culture matters more than ever

The industry has spent a decade recoiling into rigidity and pessimism, and the AI moment is reproducing the same false dichotomies. A case for returning to curiosity, experimentation, and the willingness to be wrong.

cultureai

ooo-yay.comMar 20, 2026

Warrant: a shared work queue for agents and humans

Warrant is a work queue plus shared project context so people and IDE agents can pull tickets, log work, and hand off to human review, without losing the thread between chat and the repo.

aiagents