I once again find myself pondering the world at the confluence of two rivers of thought: a childhood storyteller and infrastructure as code. […] When I was a kid in school, we'd occasionally …

The internet is littered with examples of Agents getting things wrong. I've had some of those same experiences, mostly variants of ignoring instructions. Occasionally I get a fun one like this. …

It's been a fast few. Lots of things have filled the past months, from trips to toiling in the yard. Here we are at the end of another summer. Thankfully I've learned a few things, relearned really - …

Six months ago I would have told you there's a lot of value in crafting a custom harness to drive a reliable development flow. Claude Code was good, but it lacked guardrail loops. If you wanted …

TL;DR: Brand isn't a role, it's what you bring. […] Personal Brand - that’s my next challenge. On the surface it should be pretty straightforward - how do people view the value I bring, what’s …

Visual InterDev 6.0's HTML editor. Screenshot via irt.org, used for historical commentary; Visual InterDev is a trademark of Microsoft. […] Further mutterings on finding joy in development. …

I've droned on about this in a few formats, but I keep stubbing my toe on it. This paper covers an approach to accelerate model capabilities by expanding the data available for re-training through the …

I haven't done this for a while, so it's probably time to see where it goes. I love telling stories. I'm well past the point where I want to sit on a porch, jibbering away about "In my …

I spend way too much time thinking about words. Currently I’m obsessed with finding a very specific word or phrase. […] There’s a phenomenon that many of us encounter where we grow confident …