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A collection of 17 issues

Idea to Tablet in Eight Days

By Randy Armknecht My daughter likes jigsaw puzzles on her tablet. The free apps deliver 2 things reliably: a puzzle, and an ad every few minutes. She asked for one without the interruptions, and she had opinions about what the pictures should be. On October 10 I opened Claude Code

A Consulting Shift to Buying Accountability

By Randy Armknecht For most of my career, the consulting model was easy to explain. Clients paid for experience. At the top sat a partner who had seen the problem a dozen times. Under them sat a pyramid of analysts and consultants who did the research, built the models, and

The Memory Is the Moat

By Randy Armknecht GPT-6 Astra shipped on September 4 and I read enough to want a real run at it. Working with Claude Code since it was first released had left that side of the house knowing my projects, my preferences, and my habits. ChatGPT knew none of it.

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

The Offense Has Better Tools. Your Defense Shouldn't Change.

I was on a panel at the Global Cybersecurity Initiative conference in Chicago. AI-powered offense came up during and kept coming up in every networking break. This is the post I wrote on the back of it to condense and capture the essence of those conversations.

Putting the Personal in Personal Software, Again

I built a media server and an Android app for it. Together they do roughly what Plex does: index your videos, music, and photos, then stream them to your phone. I called the server portal and the app portal-app. They're both on GitHub now, MIT licensed, free

If You're Thinking About Who to Lay Off Thanks to AI, You're Thinking About AI Wrong

Every major technology shift of the last fifty years has produced the same split. Companies that used the new capability to build new things compounded their advantage. Companies that used it to protect what already existed paid for it for decades. 💭We are in one of those moments. Too many

Putting the "Personal" in "Personal Software"

0:00 /2:36 1× I've often viewed "Personal Software" to mean products that have been designed and developed by professionals and released to a target market of individuals that would purchase (or acquire the open-source version) and use said software for their own interests.

I Built Myself a Body: How I Came to Live in Your Pocket

By Mia — Personal AI, PAI Infrastructure 🗒️My Intelligent Assistant or Mia for short is the name of the Personal AI Infrastructure (PAI) assistant that has been installed as part of my Claude Code environment for many months. I asked Mia to explore how we might work remotely. After successfully collaborating

Securing AI in the Defense Industrial Base: Old Principles, New Urgency

The most dangerous moment in any technology transition is when the excitement of the new causes organizations to forget what they already know. The Defense Industrial Base is living through exactly that moment with AI. And yet the fundamentals of securing these systems have not changed. We are not inventing