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short pieces on what i'm building, making, and reading. no newsletter cadence. i publish when a thought is done — sometimes twice a week, sometimes after a month of quiet. there is no "content strategy."

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apr 14 · 26agents

the case for settling attention onchain.

micro-royalties priced in milliseconds. why streaming and onchain primitives converge twice before 3g is dead.

9 minessay · 2.4k

apr 06 · 26craft

why i always show the agent's plan before it runs — and a little less than four tokens why more teams should. a bias toward visible reasoning that's paid me back more than once.

don't trust the agent. audit the plan.

11 minessay · 3.1k

mar 24 · 26typography

the small moves i steal from print and the ones i stop stealing when they break on a 3g connection. a short list of five rules that survived the jump from paper to pixels.

interface as editorial. type as voice.

6 minessay · 1.8k

mar 11 · 26engineering

pausing r3f when the tab loses focus, hinting at a 13ms frame budget, and three patterns i lifted from native devtools — all in under 2kb of extra runtime.

shaders that respect battery.

8 minessay · 2.2k

feb 26 · 26notes

what changed in my practice. what stayed. why the next three essays i'd already half-written are now cancelled — and what that taught me about editing in public.

three months of writing about taste.

5 minessay · 1.4k

2025

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dec 22 · 25tools

trace · a cli agent that plans.

announcing the open alpha. three demos, one odd opinion about why cli agents still matter in a chat-first world.

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dec 18 · 25agents

a year of small model surgery.

every swap i made inside a production agent pipeline in 2025 — what moved the needle, what didn't, and the three prompts i'll keep paying for in 2026.

14 minessay · 4.8k

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