Updates

Are you over-engineering your Claude Code projects?

12 April 2026

🔧 Most of us assemble a stack, get it working, and never question it again. The same instinct that makes you challenge a feature requirement applies to your tech choices too, and with agentic coding acting on the answer has never been cheaper.

Gah! I didn't solve my reading backlog, I just moved it...

11 April 2026

I built an AI reading triage tool to get on top of my Readwise Reader queue. It worked, briefly. Then Jevons' Paradox paid me a visit. 🧙‍♂️

I spent a weekend discovering what Claude and I already knew

6 April 2026

🧠 I spent a weekend building a memory system for Claude Code. It had a serious case of amnesia. Turns out I'd built a highly capable (and seriously over engineered) motion sensor for a room with no motion.

On being honest about AI

31 March 2026

There's a maker 🛠️ revolution happening around AI tools that reminds me of the early web. Here's how I'm using it, and where I draw the line.

When constraints become creative permission

19 March 2026

👍 After a year of AI-assisted building, the interesting question isn't if the model can write the code. It's whether you've built the conditions where something good can emerge. Project Ansible taught me that the right constraints aren't a cage. They're what makes you brave enough to experiment.