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Latest — 16 Sep 2026

My Memory System Almost Forgot Why It Existed

I built a memory system so I would stop paying for the same mistake twice. Most projects turn up a trap eventually, some detail that costs real time or real money once and has to survive past the moment I learned it. The problem was never capturing them in a

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Evenings Are the Day Job Without the Budget

I've been reading We Are Not Machines by Sarah O'Connor, and today one page stopped me long enough to photograph it and draft this blog. We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of WorkA tsunami of change, we are told, is sweeping the econo…

Two Machines, Nine Models, One Number That Mattered

By Randy Armknecht and Mia Three things were wrong with my desktop. The Radeon RX 7900 XT's 20 GB ceiling kept newer image models out of ComfyUI. Tuesday night gaming with friends meant unloading whatever model was resident first. And the scripts that summarize articles for me before

300 Findings, 7 That Mattered

I spent part of this week looking at an open source project for orchestrating agents. Before I ran a line of it, I put it through the usual gates: semgrep, gitleaks, npm audit, and ruff with the bandit rules turned on. The tools handed back roughly 300 findings. A number

A Product in Spring, a Line Item in Summer

I never got comfortable running Claude Code sessions inside Anthropic's cloud. The prompts and the context were already going over the wire, and handing over full copies of the repository, the build artifacts, and whatever secrets a session touches felt like paying twice for the same trip. So

Nothing Broke, So Nothing Got Fixed

I removed PAI from my machine and did not think about it again. Weeks later I went looking for the Telegram assistant I had built on top of it and found the systemd unit disabled and inactive. I had not noticed it was gone. Building custom software got cheap. Noticing

If I See It, I Think About It

Summer's an odd time for spring cleaning, but that's where I've landed anyway. Newsletter subscriptions I don't open. Sources in my news-feed I skim past more out of guilt than interest. And a Claude Code status line from a project I

Reading About It Won't Build It.

My daughters do martial arts with me. We train in class together; we practice forms at home. You can read every judo textbook ever printed and watch every tutorial on YouTube. The throw will not be there. The throw develops on the mat: doing it, being thrown, repeating until your

Secured the Access. Trust Is a Separate Question.

A few weeks ago I argued that the right response to AI-powered offense is the same thing it's always been: follow the data, apply foundational controls, and stop looking for a clever AI-specific answer to what is fundamentally a hygiene problem. Access control. Least privilege. System

My Watch Later Playlist Was Out of Control. I Fixed It With Open Tools and a Local LLM.

I have a habit. I scroll through YouTube's home page a few times a week, and when something catches my eye, I add it to Watch Later. The algorithm knows what it's doing; the content is generally good, and the videos I'm adding are