Writing
WritingBefore You Let the Agent Build It
A detailed plan can make a bad idea look very organised. Why I make coding agents defend the plan, inspect the existing code and prove what they changed.
Are You Still Paying for Docs?
Beautiful docs are worth caring about. Renting the machinery to publish them is a separate question. What the typesetting upheaval tells us about the next documentation invoice.
The Work Never Finishes
I can have five or six AI agents working and still feel behind. On building businesses, martial arts, and the habit of making rest something you have to earn.
WebRTC in 150 Lines of C++
A webcam, a browser, and under 150 lines of C++. Follow the frames through capture, encoding, and WebRTC, with the complete Icey application and the build instructions to run it yourself.
Someone Still Has to Read It
Even good AI-assisted contributions cost somebody time to review and maintain. What curl’s experience reveals about the work on the receiving end.
The Agent Problem
We are no longer the only ones using the internet. Agents can spend and make commitments, but someone else lives with the consequences. Who supplies the judgment, the limits, and the liability?
Why Democracy Must Die
Put a hundred people in a cave. Would they elect one person to do their thinking? A proposal for governing through public values, open argument and accountable decisions.
Conquering the Internet
Warlords, gold rushes, and the discipline of choosing ground you can hold. Why understanding a problem deeply is a better starting point than chasing the next model release.
Engineering the Mind
Knowing the movements isn’t the same as understanding the art. The same holds for thought: how habit shapes perception, what paradox can teach, and why practice changes the person doing it.
Mind and Fascia
What was Chu Shong Tin trying to teach his students to feel? Nim Lik, fascia, and the gap between copying a movement and developing the internal state that makes it work.
The Clone Problem
Open ten generated websites and the family resemblance is hard to miss. What gets lost when models learn from models, and why the strange, difficult edges of human work matter.
Understanding Psychedelics
Shamans, chemists, and the uneasy relationship between direct experience and scientific explanation. What psychedelic states might reveal about the filters through which we ordinarily see the world.