How models changed the way I code
The bottleneck is no longer writing code. On writing skills, knowing the model you are teaching, and designing the whole application before a single line exists.
Jul 2026 · 12 minRead →
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A social network built on git
Every post is a commit, every friend a submodule. On a timeline for hackers, where identity is a hash, follows are consent, and the network resists censorship by construction.
Jun 2026 · 11 minRead →
Emails are just files
No daemon, no GUI, just a directory of messages. On managing mail with a CLI utility, and the handlers and hooks that make it as capable as any client.
May 2026 · 10 minRead →
Why we need a post-quantum replacement for GPG
RSA had a good century. The options to replace GPG exist now, from GnuPG's own ML-KEM support to a small Rust tool of mine, and privacy demands we use them.
Apr 2026 · 12 minRead →
Notes from the margin
Marginalia taught us how to pay attention. Somewhere we let the digital margin shrink to almost nothing.
Mar 2026 · 8 minRead →
Available light, available patience
Notes from a month of shooting only what the day already offered, no flash, no golden-hour appointments.
Feb 2026 · 5 minRead →
The quiet case for plain text
Markdown, symlinks and grep, software that keeps your data readable a decade from now, by people not yet born.
Feb 2026 · 6 minRead →
The film paradox
Fewer frames, slower decisions, better photographs. Why the constraint is the gift.
Dic 2025 · 4 minRead →
Small tools, long lives
Building unix-philosophy utilities in 2026, what still holds, and what the modern stack gets wrong.
Nov 2025 · 7 minRead →
Machines of memory
From wax tablets to the cloud: a short history of the devices we outsourced our remembering to.
Oct 2025 · 7 minRead →