Dumb Ideas

• Branch Your Database 2026-02-25

  Git branching, but for your data.

• Spotify DJ Is Like Radio But Less Bad 2026-02-23

  Not that radio is bad.

• Let Your Tabs Die 2026-02-21

  Recency is all you need.

• How To Escape Super Mario Bros 2026-02-19

  I awake to data

• Static Stars 2026-02-17

  Look down.

• First Impressions Of Agent Teams 2026-02-15

  I spent the weekend frantically hacking away.

• How do you compare agents? 2026-02-13

  Presenting the Agent Comparison Tool (ACT)

• Attendance Hacking 2026-02-11

  The lengths to which a teenager will go to be lazy

• Temporary Gods 2026-02-09

  A neat little coding pattern.

• Tower Defense 2026-02-07

  Pew pew.

• I Said Things For Thirty Days 2026-02-05

  Reflecting on an experiment.

• The Skills Of AI-Oriented Engineering 2026-02-04

  What does an engineering skillset look like in the near future?

• Intellectual Inequality 2026-02-03

  Artificial culture.

• X vs O 2026-02-02

  The veteran fighters of this eternal battlefield know only war.

• How My Wife Plays Freedom 2026-02-01

  She’s doing it WRONG!

• Are We Ready For Spec-Driven Development? 2026-01-31

  Spec-driven development is the waterfall dream.

• Avoiding The Empty Textbox 2026-01-30

  Some thoughts on generated UI.

• Ecosystem 2026-01-29

  Flocks of meatballs.

• Rise of the Demon Lord - Pt 3 2026-01-28

  Encounter with an angel.

• Shooting Stars 2026-01-27

  Wheeeeeeeeee!

• Docs in Code 2026-01-26

  Your agent doesn’t understand your code. What can you do about that?

• De-Vibing A Codebase 2026-01-25

  Like a digital hangover.

• Bespoke Software 2026-01-24

  Is the future of software is custom-made for you?

• Meatballs 2026-01-23

  Metaballs.

• All Of The Good Things, None Of The Bad Things 2026-01-22

  Art is hard

• Coding Agent Scouts 2026-01-21

  Send the little guys out there

• Being Cringe is a Good Thing, Actually 2026-01-20

  Embracing the cringe

• Flat Is Better Than Nested 2026-01-19

  An underappreciated principle

• Soul Mates 2026-01-18

  Soul mates are made, not found.

• Clouds 2026-01-17

  Clouds.

• I Want To Make A Game 2026-01-16

  We all learn from our mistakes.

• Rise of the Demon Lord - Pt 2 2026-01-15

  Old comrades meet in a longhouse.

• Parameters Are Like Pixels 2026-01-14

  How I think about neural network parameter counts.

• City Agents 2026-01-13

  How will non-biological agents integrate into our environment?

• Rise of the Demon Lord - Pt 1 2026-01-12

  One night, an elf appeared to me in a dream.

• Coding Agents As An Interface To The Codebase 2026-01-11

  Abstract views of software systems.

• Why Coding Agents Kind of Suck for Most People 2026-01-10

  They’re dumb.

• Saying What You Want 2026-01-09

  Specifying your desires clearly and fluently is an increasingly valuable skill.

• The Monoliths of Earthgarden 2026-01-08

  Somewhere in the windswept tundra of the Western Continent, surrounded by hundreds of miles of lichen and sedge, is a pit.

• How Much Of My Life Has Been Eaten By Computers? 2026-01-07

  A rough estimate of my life in programming hours.

• Hello, World! 2026-01-06

  👋🌍