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I think there's a thing in martial arts most people never practice. Between one pose and the next there's movement, and there's understanding inside the movement, and the instructor only ever…

A company I worked at became flush, and as a celebration decided the next logical move was rewriting most of the customer-facing platform. Not because it was failing, but because it was outdated,…

Last week I was in a training where they paired us up to write code with an LLM, which was a frustrating waste of a day in nearly every dimension except one: it made it really obvious that…
- 2025.12.03I feel like I'm doing these at the wrong time of day currently. Like a nightcap of sorts. Probably doesn't matter as these words are falling to an audience of none. Today I was toying with the…
- 2025.12.02Every technology gets the same flurries of woe and worry before it's even truly born. Plato had Socrates warning that writing would rot our memory—people trusting "external marks" instead of…
- 2025.12.01Today I worked out some sequence diagrams in PUML for some ways of handling old auth issues like deeplinks via SSO and passkey management. Neither of which is exciting to talk about. I also made…
- 2025.11.30I spent most of today playing with this site, mostly cleaning up some CSS inconsistencies and playing with getting a comment system going. The fact that it's run like a git repo made the entire…
- 2025.11.29I was lucky enough to catch Naked Lunch at the Eugene Art House. I took my younger son to see it, to which he described it later as "very creative" and "a little gay". I always find it impressive…
In the workshop
all projects →Asha
coding · activeA multi-harness AI workflow system: persistent identity, session memory, and domain-specific plugins for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and GitHub Copilot CLI, installed via direct symlink mount.
Asha — Sanskrit — truth, reality, hopeThallus
coding · activeUmbrella repo for local-first AI agent infrastructure: Egregore, Familiar, Servitor, Scry, and thallus-core coordinated by a shared architecture contract.
thallus — biology — the undifferentiated vegetative body of lichens and fungiThe Hush
writing · activeA cosmic horror novel in long-form revision. Reality stays mundane; the protagonist's experience of it does not.
Hush — Middle English husht — imitative. The word is the noise.botcore
coding · activePython bot framework with Claude SDK integration. Discord sessions, command registry, conversation state across messages.
bot + core — robot (← Czech robota: forced labor, R.U.R., 1920) + Latin cor: heart