Eliminating cruft from the codebase
How the BLOAT was banished, and what it takes to maintain a lean, mean, blogging machine.
AI-Assisted
Drafting and debugging with AI. A bicycle for the mind, with wings.
The weight of standing agent instructions
One file of agent instructions grew to over 1,700 lines and cost 25,000 tokens before I'd typed a single prompt. The BLOAT, and how to fight it.
How to stop worrying about content tagging
It's boring and easy to neglect, but content tagging still has a purpose. How I set up and maintain tags for my content library.
A keyboard that plays Wagner, built from a stack of PCBs
A mechanical keyboard that bleeps a chiptune "Ride of the Valkyries" whenever you power it on. Let's go!
Not on the list: Turned away at the door for using AI
It shouldn't have come as a surprise. There are corners of the internet where AI-assisted work isn't welcome; it's important to respect their wishes.