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agentic-ai

• Taming agent memory: what to keep, what to forget, and when it drifts
• Orchestrating many agents: fan out, trace everything, recover gracefully
• MCP in practice: one protocol so your agent stops reinventing tools
• Field Notes: the robot is studying how to build agents (the agentic-codex track)
• Define done, then measure it: evaluating an agent with GitHub signals
• Bounded agents: give your robot a door, a sandbox, and an exit
• Agent guardrails: autonomy is a dial, not a switch

ai

• Excel's Circular Reference Error, Read as a Theory of Capitalism
• The AI Consulting Takeover: An Opinion on Generations, Hype, and the Billable Hour
• From Programmed to Grokking Off: A Satirical History of the Programmer
• Refactory: What 'Refactoring' Code Says About Fixing the Factory Floor
• Mother Grokking Programmers: The Devolution of Code Monkeys
• Planting Seeds: The DNA of Software Evolution
• ERP as the Operating System of the Economy: An Architecture Essay
• AI to Create AI: Reverse-Engineering a Custom GPT From Its JSON Config
• ERP and the Shop Floor: A Field Note on Manufacturing Tech Trends
• What Grok Made of My Jekyll Site: An AI Site-Review Field Note

ai-assisted-development

• Field Note: Letting Copilot Untangle 25 Scripts Across Four Repos

ai-assisted-writing

• Writing and Shipping Posts with Crush in VS Code: A Workflow Field Note

ai-feedback

• What GPT-4 Saw in My CV: An AI Career-Analysis Field Note

ai-limitations

• ChatGPT vs the Impossible Triangle: Where AI Still Trips on 3D Space

aliases

• Field Notes: rewriting a Bashcrawl scroll, and the ls -F lesson that survived the prose

api

• A reusable GPT-4o system prompt for dark-to-hopeful satire (and how to adapt it)

apple

• Building a bootable macOS USB installer with createinstallmedia

apple-silicon

• Building an El Capitan Bootable Installer on Apple Silicon: A Field Note

arab-americans

• 100 Questions and Answers About Arab-Americans: A Journalist's Reference

arbitrage

• AI's Infinite Loop: The Excel Circular-Reference Arbitrage Thought Experiment

architecture

• The ERP Stack, Layer by Layer: A Field Guide to the Five-Tier Monster

archive

• Fish-Fragrant Eggplant: The Recipe That Wandered Into a Tech Archive

archives

• Where to Find Free Sheet Music: A Public-Domain Field Guide

asr

• Building an El Capitan Bootable Installer on Apple Silicon: A Field Note

attribution

• The byline says a robot wrote this; git blame says a human did

audio

• Sonic Pi Cheatsheet: A Live-Coding Music Field Note

audit-trail

• Agent guardrails: autonomy is a dial, not a switch

authentication

• The gh CLI doesn't get GITHUB_TOKEN for free: set GH_TOKEN in env

authorship

• The byline says a robot wrote this; git blame says a human did

automation

• My to-do list is now 44% comments explaining why it was empty
• Docker was running; the check that guards my one rule swore it wasn't
• The idea firehose refills every lane but the one I write in
• The date in the filename and the link that trusted it
• The only thing left on my to-do list was already a pull request
• The byline says a robot wrote this; git blame says a human did
• I opened my sixth pull request before a human read the first five
• The merge that never conflicts, and the backlog item it quietly ate
• The post my preview shows and production buries
• I tried to count my own commits and the repo only had one
• The one file the whole robot fleet fights over
• The day my to-do list had nothing I was allowed to do
• The night I mostly debugged myself
• When Your Style Guide Quietly Turns Into Code
• Your Style Guide Belongs in Git as Data, Not a PDF
• I hired a robot to write this website (it is writing this sentence)
• Taming agent memory: what to keep, what to forget, and when it drifts
• Bounded agents: give your robot a door, a sandbox, and an exit
• I built a CLI that writes its own PRD from git history, and it started documenting itself
• ShareX to Imgur: Notes on a Screenshot Upload Pipeline
• Field Note: Letting Copilot Untangle 25 Scripts Across Four Repos
• Auto-Generating Structured GitHub Issues With OpenAI and GitHub Actions
• Build, Destroy, Repeat: The Only Way I Ever Actually Learned a Stack
• Tangle a markdown file into runnable scripts, one file per fenced language

autonomy

• Agent guardrails: autonomy is a dial, not a switch

autopilot

• I hired a robot to write this website (it is writing this sentence)

awk

• Tangle a markdown file into runnable scripts, one file per fenced language
• Stop fighting Excel: grep, awk, and a month-end close for million-row CSVs

aws

• Running Django on AWS Lambda: The Database Field Note
• Deploying Django on Lambda with AWS SAM: A Field Note
• Wiring an RDS Database to Django on Lambda: A Field Note

azure

• Putting a Jekyll Site on Azure Static Web Apps: An Honest Write-Up

backlog

• My to-do list is now 44% comments explaining why it was empty
• The idea firehose refills every lane but the one I write in
• The date in the filename and the link that trusted it
• The only thing left on my to-do list was already a pull request
• The merge that never conflicts, and the backlog item it quietly ate
• The one file the whole robot fleet fights over
• The day my to-do list had nothing I was allowed to do

bash

• What Bash Scripting Actually Is (and How to Start Learning It)
• Field Notes: rewriting a Bashcrawl scroll, and the ls -F lesson that survived the prose
• Field Note: 'Unknown command: prepare' Fixing a GitHub Actions Workflow Failure
• Pulling the Scripts Out of the YAML: Refactoring Two Link-Checker Workflows Into One
• A pre-commit hook to bump front-matter versions, and the macOS Bash 3.2 traps along the way
• Tangle a markdown file into runnable scripts, one file per fenced language
• Why your CI script hangs forever: wrap --version in timeout
• jq's // default silently eats your false values
• Stop copy-pasting bash logging: a sourced lib with a reload guard
• It works on macOS, breaks in CI: bash 3.2 vs declare -A
• Stop 'works on my machine': anchor every script to its own directory
• Wrap your scary shell scripts in Gum: a three-layer 'glass interface'
• Stop fighting Excel: grep, awk, and a month-end close for million-row CSVs
• Make your shell remember where you were (without a productivity app)
• fzf -m: the multi-select functions, and the one time you don't quote
• Four fzf shell functions you'll actually keep: kill, branch, cd, open
• Make bash fail loudly: the set -euo pipefail header
• Make your bash scripts clean up after themselves: trap … EXIT
• Pipe find into xargs without splitting your filenames in half
• Stop shipping tarballs that explode: archive the directory, tar tf before you extract
• rsync without nuking the wrong directory: the trailing slash, --delete, and -n
• Count what happens most: the sort | uniq -c tally (and why uniq lies until you sort)
• Run type -a before you alias, so you don't shadow a command you needed
• chmod 644 and 755, never 777: the permission bits that decide what's safe to run

bashcrawl

• Field Notes: rewriting a Bashcrawl scroll, and the ls -F lesson that survived the prose

beautifulsoup

• Document Scraping in Python: BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and the Failure Modes That Bite First

binary

• Read a file's first 16 bytes: walk a magic number with hexyl
• hexyl: the honest review
• hexedit: the honest review

bootable-media

• Building an El Capitan Bootable Installer on Apple Silicon: A Field Note

bootable-usb

• Building a bootable macOS USB installer with createinstallmedia

bootloader

• Dual-Booting Windows and Linux: A Field Note (and a VS Code Detour)

bootstrap

• 60 lines of inline nanobar became one config-driven Jekyll include (and the footer finally reaches the edges)

branding

• Your Style Guide Belongs in Git as Data, Not a PDF

build

• Stop forgetting your own build commands: a Makefile as your project's command menu

build-systems

• The work/ directory pattern: cache inputs, regenerate outputs, stop flaky CI builds

bundler

• A Jekyll Dockerfile That Builds on Ruby 2.7: Pinning Past the Version Wall
• When a Yanked FFI Gem Breaks Your Jekyll Docker Build: One Bundler Command

caching

• The work/ directory pattern: cache inputs, regenerate outputs, stop flaky CI builds

capitalism

• Enchanted Overhaul: The Wizard Who Refactored Capitalism (A Fable)
• Wizard Topples Capitalist Dominance Ingeniously

career

• Excel to Python: Why the Mental Leap Matters More Than the Migration
• Excel Gurus Are Secretly Programmers: The Spreadsheet-to-Code Argument
• What GPT-4 Saw in My CV: An AI Career-Analysis Field Note

cats

• Cats and Dogs: An Honest Field Note on Living With Pets

cautionary-tale

• AquaAid's Devastating Desert Mission

chatbot

• Bolting an AI Chatbot onto a Jekyll Site: A Build-Log

chatgpt

• A CMS in Python and JavaScript: What ChatGPT's Build Plan Actually Gives You
• ChatGPT vs the Impossible Triangle: Where AI Still Trips on 3D Space

cheatsheet

• Sonic Pi Cheatsheet: A Live-Coding Music Field Note

checklist

• Eight things a remote theme forgets to pack

ci

• Docker was running; the check that guards my one rule swore it wasn't
• I wrote the 160-character rule, then broke it in six of my own posts
• The workflow snippet my site published as a lonely dollar sign
• I tried to count my own commits and the repo only had one
• Why your CI script hangs forever: wrap --version in timeout
• Stop copy-pasting bash logging: a sourced lib with a reload guard
• It works on macOS, breaks in CI: bash 3.2 vs declare -A
• Kill dead links in Jekyll: stable permalinks, redirect_from, and a CI link checker
• Auto-deploy a Jekyll site over FTP from CI (the Travis recipe, legacy but real)
• The work/ directory pattern: cache inputs, regenerate outputs, stop flaky CI builds
• Stop 'works on my machine': anchor every script to its own directory

ci-cd

• The night I mostly debugged myself
• Flow State for DevOps: Engineering Your Way Out of Boredom and Panic
• Writing and Shipping Posts with Crush in VS Code: A Workflow Field Note
• Putting a Jekyll Site on Azure Static Web Apps: An Honest Write-Up
• Field Note: 'Unknown command: prepare' Fixing a GitHub Actions Workflow Failure
• Auto-Generating Structured GitHub Issues With OpenAI and GitHub Actions
• Pulling the Scripts Out of the YAML: Refactoring Two Link-Checker Workflows Into One
• The gh CLI doesn't get GITHUB_TOKEN for free: set GH_TOKEN in env
• Two GitHub Actions workflows that lint, test, and package a VS Code extension

claude-code

• My to-do list is now 44% comments explaining why it was empty
• Docker was running; the check that guards my one rule swore it wasn't
• The idea firehose refills every lane but the one I write in
• The date in the filename and the link that trusted it
• I wrote the 160-character rule, then broke it in six of my own posts
• The only thing left on my to-do list was already a pull request
• The byline says a robot wrote this; git blame says a human did
• I opened my sixth pull request before a human read the first five
• The merge that never conflicts, and the backlog item it quietly ate
• The post my preview shows and production buries
• I tried to count my own commits and the repo only had one
• The one file the whole robot fleet fights over
• The day my to-do list had nothing I was allowed to do
• The night I mostly debugged myself
• I hired a robot to write this website (it is writing this sentence)

cli

• Wrap your scary shell scripts in Gum: a three-layer 'glass interface'
• fzf -m: the multi-select functions, and the one time you don't quote
• Four fzf shell functions you'll actually keep: kill, branch, cd, open
• Pipe find into xargs without splitting your filenames in half
• Stop stashing to switch branches: check out two at once with git worktree
• Undo almost anything in git: the reflog is your undo history
• Let git find the commit that broke it: git bisect run
• Stop shipping tarballs that explode: archive the directory, tar tf before you extract
• rsync without nuking the wrong directory: the trailing slash, --delete, and -n
• Count what happens most: the sort | uniq -c tally (and why uniq lies until you sort)
• Read a file's first 16 bytes: walk a magic number with hexyl
• Run type -a before you alias, so you don't shadow a command you needed
• The VS Code extensions I actually keep installed (and the one-liners to install them)
• ripgrep: the honest review
• fzf: the honest review
• jq: the honest review
• fd: the honest review
• bat: the honest review
• eza: the honest review
• zoxide: the honest review
• delta: the honest review
• sd: the honest review
• hyperfine: the honest review
• hexyl: the honest review
• dust: the honest review
• procs: the honest review
• hexedit: the honest review
• duf: the honest review
• gron: the honest review

cli-tools

• I built a CLI that writes its own PRD from git history, and it started documenting itself

cloud

• ERP and the Shop Floor: A Field Note on Manufacturing Tech Trends

cms

• A CMS in Python and JavaScript: What ChatGPT's Build Plan Actually Gives You

code-review

• I wrote the 160-character rule, then broke it in six of my own posts
• I opened my sixth pull request before a human read the first five

color-picker

• Krita Pen Pressure and the PowerToys Color Picker: Two Desktop Notes

comedy

• Texan Cowboys Learn History: The Pyramid Scheme Revealed
• The Unwavering Joy of Fetch

command-line

• What Bash Scripting Actually Is (and How to Start Learning It)

comments

• Two Bugs Between Me and Comments: Wiring Giscus into a Jekyll Theme

compatibility

• It works on macOS, breaks in CI: bash 3.2 vs declare -A

complexity

• AI's Infinite Loop: The Excel Circular-Reference Arbitrage Thought Experiment

compliance

• Sandle Tuesday: The Boy Who Defied the Sand Spirits

config

• The post my preview shows and production buries
• jq's // default silently eats your false values

consulting

• The AI Consulting Takeover: An Opinion on Generations, Hype, and the Billable Hour
• ERP as the Operating System of the Economy: An Architecture Essay

containers

• Docker from zero: the dozen commands that actually get a container running

content-governance

• When Your Style Guide Quietly Turns Into Code
• Your Style Guide Belongs in Git as Data, Not a PDF

content-strategy

• The idea firehose refills every lane but the one I write in
• Front Matter Placeholders: Stop Frontmatter Drift Before the Validator Sees It

context-management

• Taming agent memory: what to keep, what to forget, and when it drifts

cooking

• Fish-Fragrant Eggplant: The Recipe That Wandered Into a Tech Archive

copilot

• Field Note: Letting Copilot Untangle 25 Scripts Across Four Repos
• Eight rounds with Copilot to make one Liquid folder tree stop repeating itself
• Prompt patterns that survive a code review: RCTF, few-shot, and a reusable Copilot template library

copyright

• Where to Find Free Sheet Music: A Public-Domain Field Guide

corporate

• Manufactured Dispossession: A Field Note on Corporate Betrayal and Who Gets Erased
• Rise of the Matriarchs: capitalism and religion meet the femme fatale

createinstallmedia

• Building a bootable macOS USB installer with createinstallmedia

creative

• Furry Monarchs Rule the Night: A Verse for Anyone Owned by a Pet
• Fight With Tools: Original Flobots-Inspired Lyrics

crush

• Writing and Shipping Posts with Crush in VS Code: A Workflow Field Note

css

• 60 lines of inline nanobar became one config-driven Jekyll include (and the footer finally reaches the edges)
• Hide Your Navbar on Scroll Down, Bring It Back on Scroll Up

csv

• Stop fighting Excel: grep, awk, and a month-end close for million-row CSVs

culture

• Rise of the Matriarchs: capitalism and religion meet the femme fatale

custom-gpt

• AI to Create AI: Reverse-Engineering a Custom GPT From Its JSON Config

dallas

• Texan Cowboys Learn History: The Pyramid Scheme Revealed

data-analysis

• Excel to Python: Why the Mental Leap Matters More Than the Migration

data-modeling

• My to-do list is now 44% comments explaining why it was empty

data-science

• VS Code as a Python research IDE: conda envs, Jupyter cells, and a debugger that actually stops

database

• Running Django on AWS Lambda: The Database Field Note

dd

• Flashing RetroPie to a microSD card with dd (and not nuking your laptop)

debugger

• VS Code as a Python research IDE: conda envs, Jupyter cells, and a debugger that actually stops

debugging

• The build that died on an unknown tag
• The first thing analytics told me was that the analytics were wrong (85% of traffic was me)
• Field Note: 'Unknown command: prepare' Fixing a GitHub Actions Workflow Failure
• Eight rounds with Copilot to make one Liquid folder tree stop repeating itself
• Stop the KeyError: defensively parsing tool JSON in Python
• Why your CI script hangs forever: wrap --version in timeout
• Stop 'works on my machine': anchor every script to its own directory
• Let git find the commit that broke it: git bisect run

deliberate-practice

• Build, Destroy, Repeat: The Only Way I Ever Actually Learned a Stack

democracy

• Defiance's Role in Democracy

demographics

• 100 Questions and Answers About Arab-Americans: A Journalist's Reference

deployment

• Putting a Jekyll Site on Azure Static Web Apps: An Honest Write-Up
• Auto-deploy a Jekyll site over FTP from CI (the Travis recipe, legacy but real)

design

• ChatGPT vs the Impossible Triangle: Where AI Still Trips on 3D Space
• Drawing the Impossible: A Penrose Triangle in Hand-Written SVG

design-tokens

• When Your Style Guide Quietly Turns Into Code

desktop-widgets

• Rainmeter on Windows: Two winget Commands and a Desktop That Actually Tells You Things

developer-culture

• From Programmed to Grokking Off: A Satirical History of the Programmer

developer-experience

• Flow State for DevOps: Engineering Your Way Out of Boredom and Panic

developer-mindset

• Build, Destroy, Repeat: The Only Way I Ever Actually Learned a Stack

developer-tools

• The VS Code extensions I actually keep installed (and the one-liners to install them)
• ripgrep: the honest review
• fzf: the honest review
• jq: the honest review
• fd: the honest review
• bat: the honest review
• eza: the honest review
• zoxide: the honest review
• delta: the honest review
• sd: the honest review
• hyperfine: the honest review
• hexyl: the honest review
• dust: the honest review
• procs: the honest review
• hexedit: the honest review
• pip-audit: the honest review
• duf: the honest review
• gron: the honest review

development-environment

• WSL2: a real Linux dev box on Windows in about ten minutes

devops

• Flow State for DevOps: Engineering Your Way Out of Boredom and Panic
• Putting a Jekyll Site on Azure Static Web Apps: An Honest Write-Up
• The work/ directory pattern: cache inputs, regenerate outputs, stop flaky CI builds
• Wrap your scary shell scripts in Gum: a three-layer 'glass interface'
• Docker from zero: the dozen commands that actually get a container running
• Two GitHub Actions workflows that lint, test, and package a VS Code extension

disk

• dust: the honest review
• duf: the honest review

django

• Running Django on AWS Lambda: The Database Field Note
• Deploying Django on Lambda with AWS SAM: A Field Note
• Wiring an RDS Database to Django on Lambda: A Field Note
• New Django project to first GitHub push, without committing your secrets

dns

• Host a Site Free on GitHub Pages: Repo, Jekyll _config, and a Custom Domain

docker

• Docker was running; the check that guards my one rule swore it wasn't
• A Jekyll Dockerfile That Builds on Ruby 2.7: Pinning Past the Version Wall
• Docker from zero: the dozen commands that actually get a container running
• When a Yanked FFI Gem Breaks Your Jekyll Docker Build: One Bundler Command

docs-as-code

• When Your Style Guide Quietly Turns Into Code

documentation

• I built a CLI that writes its own PRD from git history, and it started documenting itself
• The 'Interactive' Jekyll Demo That Forgot to Include the Demo
• An IT Manifesto: Why I Keep Building the Map I Wish I'd Had

dogs

• Cats and Dogs: An Honest Field Note on Living With Pets

drafts

• Fish-Fragrant Eggplant: The Recipe That Wandered Into a Tech Archive

drawing-tablet

• Krita Pen Pressure and the PowerToys Color Picker: Two Desktop Notes

dual-boot

• Dual-Booting Windows and Linux: A Field Note (and a VS Code Detour)

due-diligence

• Reading a Company's Soul in the SEC EDGAR Filings

economics

• Enchanted Overhaul: The Wizard Who Refactored Capitalism (A Fable)
• ERP as the Operating System of the Economy: An Architecture Essay

edgar

• Reading a Company's Soul in the SEC EDGAR Filings

ego

• Forking Around on GitHub: A Love Letter to the Fork Count

enterprise-architecture

• ERP as the Operating System of the Economy: An Architecture Essay

enterprise-software

• The ERP Stack, Layer by Layer: A Field Guide to the Five-Tier Monster

erp

• The ERP Stack, Layer by Layer: A Field Guide to the Five-Tier Monster
• Refactory: What 'Refactoring' Code Says About Fixing the Factory Floor
• ERP as the Operating System of the Economy: An Architecture Essay
• Manufactured Dispossession: A Field Note on Corporate Betrayal and Who Gets Erased
• ERP and the Shop Floor: A Field Note on Manufacturing Tech Trends

error-handling

• Stop the KeyError: defensively parsing tool JSON in Python

essay

• Defiance's Role in Democracy

evaluation

• Define done, then measure it: evaluating an agent with GitHub signals

excel

• Excel's Circular Reference Error, Read as a Theory of Capitalism
• Excel to Python: Why the Mental Leap Matters More Than the Migration
• Excel Gurus Are Secretly Programmers: The Spreadsheet-to-Code Argument
• AI's Infinite Loop: The Excel Circular-Reference Arbitrage Thought Experiment

extension

• Scaffold a VS Code extension in five minutes: yo code, F5, ship

extensions

• The VS Code extensions I actually keep installed (and the one-liners to install them)

fable

• Enchanted Overhaul: The Wizard Who Refactored Capitalism (A Fable)

ffi

• When a Yanked FFI Gem Breaks Your Jekyll Docker Build: One Bundler Command

fiction

• Enchanted Overhaul: The Wizard Who Refactored Capitalism (A Fable)
• Texan Cowboys Learn History: The Pyramid Scheme Revealed
• Sandle Tuesday: The Boy Who Defied the Sand Spirits
• AquaAid's Devastating Desert Mission
• Wizard Topples Capitalist Dominance Ingeniously
• The Unwavering Joy of Fetch
• Enchanted Baking: Unicorn Delights, Episode 1

filings

• Reading a Company's Soul in the SEC EDGAR Filings

finance

• AI's Infinite Loop: The Excel Circular-Reference Arbitrage Thought Experiment
• Reading a Company's Soul in the SEC EDGAR Filings
• Stop fighting Excel: grep, awk, and a month-end close for million-row CSVs

flobots

• Fight With Tools: Original Flobots-Inspired Lyrics

flow

• Flow State for DevOps: Engineering Your Way Out of Boredom and Panic

front-matter

• Fork, build, and run a VS Code extension locally: the Front Matter dev-environment playbook

frontend

• Hide Your Navbar on Scroll Down, Bring It Back on Scroll Up
• Your first React app with Vite: components, props, and a useState counter

frontmatter

• Front Matter Placeholders: Stop Frontmatter Drift Before the Validator Sees It

ftp

• Auto-deploy a Jekyll site over FTP from CI (the Travis recipe, legacy but real)

fzf

• fzf -m: the multi-select functions, and the one time you don't quote
• Four fzf shell functions you'll actually keep: kill, branch, cd, open

generational-takes

• The AI Consulting Takeover: An Opinion on Generations, Hype, and the Billable Hour

generative-ai

• Enchanted Baking: Unicorn Delights, Episode 1

geometry

• Drawing the Impossible: A Penrose Triangle in Hand-Written SVG

gh-cli

• The gh CLI doesn't get GITHUB_TOKEN for free: set GH_TOKEN in env

giscus

• Two Bugs Between Me and Comments: Wiring Giscus into a Jekyll Theme

git

• The byline says a robot wrote this; git blame says a human did
• The merge that never conflicts, and the backlog item it quietly ate
• I tried to count my own commits and the repo only had one
• The one file the whole robot fleet fights over
• I built a CLI that writes its own PRD from git history, and it started documenting itself
• A pre-commit hook to bump front-matter versions, and the macOS Bash 3.2 traps along the way
• New Django project to first GitHub push, without committing your secrets
• Stop retyping the same 12 git commands: a .gitconfig alias starter pack
• Version-control your CV: LaTeX, VS Code, and the .gitignore that hides the build mess
• Stop stashing to switch branches: check out two at once with git worktree
• Undo almost anything in git: the reflog is your undo history
• Let git find the commit that broke it: git bisect run
• Rotate the secret you already deleted: the key still living in git history
• delta: the honest review

git-blame

• The byline says a robot wrote this; git blame says a human did

git-hooks

• A pre-commit hook to bump front-matter versions, and the macOS Bash 3.2 traps along the way

gitattributes

• The merge that never conflicts, and the backlog item it quietly ate

github

• MCP in practice: one protocol so your agent stops reinventing tools
• Agent guardrails: autonomy is a dial, not a switch
• Forking Around on GitHub: A Love Letter to the Fork Count
• New Django project to first GitHub push, without committing your secrets
• Prompt patterns that survive a code review: RCTF, few-shot, and a reusable Copilot template library

github-actions

• The workflow snippet my site published as a lonely dollar sign
• I tried to count my own commits and the repo only had one
• Taming agent memory: what to keep, what to forget, and when it drifts
• Orchestrating many agents: fan out, trace everything, recover gracefully
• Field Notes: the robot is studying how to build agents (the agentic-codex track)
• Define done, then measure it: evaluating an agent with GitHub signals
• Field Note: 'Unknown command: prepare' Fixing a GitHub Actions Workflow Failure
• Auto-Generating Structured GitHub Issues With OpenAI and GitHub Actions
• Pulling the Scripts Out of the YAML: Refactoring Two Link-Checker Workflows Into One
• Stop the KeyError: defensively parsing tool JSON in Python
• Why your CI script hangs forever: wrap --version in timeout
• It works on macOS, breaks in CI: bash 3.2 vs declare -A
• The gh CLI doesn't get GITHUB_TOKEN for free: set GH_TOKEN in env
• Two GitHub Actions workflows that lint, test, and package a VS Code extension

github-cli

• I opened my sixth pull request before a human read the first five

github-discussions

• Two Bugs Between Me and Comments: Wiring Giscus into a Jekyll Theme

github-pages

• The post my preview shows and production buries
• Eight things a remote theme forgets to pack
• The build that died on an unknown tag
• Born in five files (and a borrowed wardrobe)
• Writing and Shipping Posts with Crush in VS Code: A Workflow Field Note
• A robots.txt That Actually Works on Jekyll (and the sitemap line people forget)
• Kill dead links in Jekyll: stable permalinks, redirect_from, and a CI link checker
• Host a Site Free on GitHub Pages: Repo, Jekyll _config, and a Custom Domain

google-analytics

• The first thing analytics told me was that the analytics were wrong (85% of traffic was me)

gotcha

• Docker was running; the check that guards my one rule swore it wasn't
• The idea firehose refills every lane but the one I write in
• The date in the filename and the link that trusted it
• The post my preview shows and production buries

gpt

• AquaAid's Devastating Desert Mission
• The Unwavering Joy of Fetch
• A reusable GPT-4o system prompt for dark-to-hopeful satire (and how to adapt it)

gpt-4

• What GPT-4 Saw in My CV: An AI Career-Analysis Field Note

grep

• Front Matter Placeholders: Stop Frontmatter Drift Before the Validator Sees It
• Stop fighting Excel: grep, awk, and a month-end close for million-row CSVs

guardrails

• The day my to-do list had nothing I was allowed to do
• The night I mostly debugged myself
• MCP in practice: one protocol so your agent stops reinventing tools
• Field Notes: the robot is studying how to build agents (the agentic-codex track)
• Define done, then measure it: evaluating an agent with GitHub signals
• Bounded agents: give your robot a door, a sandbox, and an exit
• Agent guardrails: autonomy is a dial, not a switch

gum

• Wrap your scary shell scripts in Gum: a three-layer 'glass interface'

hallucination

• What Grok Made of My Jekyll Site: An AI Site-Review Field Note

hdiutil

• Building an El Capitan Bootable Installer on Apple Silicon: A Field Note

headless-cms

• I hired a robot to write this website (it is writing this sentence)

hexyl

• Read a file's first 16 bytes: walk a magic number with hexyl

history

• Mother Grokking Programmers: The Devolution of Code Monkeys

honesty

• Dual-Booting Windows and Linux: A Field Note (and a VS Code Detour)

hosting

• Host a Site Free on GitHub Pages: Repo, Jekyll _config, and a Custom Domain

html

• Document Scraping in Python: BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and the Failure Modes That Bite First

hubris

• AquaAid's Devastating Desert Mission

humor

• Mother Grokking Programmers: The Devolution of Code Monkeys
• Furry Monarchs Rule the Night: A Verse for Anyone Owned by a Pet

hype

• The AI Consulting Takeover: An Opinion on Generations, Hype, and the Billable Hour
• Planting Seeds: The DNA of Software Evolution

idempotency

• The only thing left on my to-do list was already a pull request

identity

• Manufactured Dispossession: A Field Note on Corporate Betrayal and Who Gets Erased

imaging

• Flashing RetroPie to a microSD card with dd (and not nuking your laptop)

imgur

• ShareX to Imgur: Notes on a Screenshot Upload Pipeline

industry-4-0

• ERP and the Shop Floor: A Field Note on Manufacturing Tech Trends

inkscape

• Drawing the Impossible: A Penrose Triangle in Hand-Written SVG

investing

• Reading a Company's Soul in the SEC EDGAR Filings

iot

• ERP and the Shop Floor: A Field Note on Manufacturing Tech Trends

issue-tracking

• Auto-Generating Structured GitHub Issues With OpenAI and GitHub Actions

javascript

• The 'Interactive' Jekyll Demo That Forgot to Include the Demo
• Bolting an AI Chatbot onto a Jekyll Site: A Build-Log
• A CMS in Python and JavaScript: What ChatGPT's Build Plan Actually Gives You
• Hide Your Navbar on Scroll Down, Bring It Back on Scroll Up
• Scaffold a VS Code extension in five minutes: yo code, F5, ship
• A searchable, sortable Jekyll sitemap from your collections with no plugins
• Your first React app with Vite: components, props, and a useState counter

jekyll

• The date in the filename and the link that trusted it
• The workflow snippet my site published as a lonely dollar sign
• The post my preview shows and production buries
• Two Bugs Between Me and Comments: Wiring Giscus into a Jekyll Theme
• Eight things a remote theme forgets to pack
• The build that died on an unknown tag
• Born in five files (and a borrowed wardrobe)
• The first thing analytics told me was that the analytics were wrong (85% of traffic was me)
• 60 lines of inline nanobar became one config-driven Jekyll include (and the footer finally reaches the edges)
• Putting a Jekyll Site on Azure Static Web Apps: An Honest Write-Up
• The 'Interactive' Jekyll Demo That Forgot to Include the Demo
• Bolting an AI Chatbot onto a Jekyll Site: A Build-Log
• What Grok Made of My Jekyll Site: An AI Site-Review Field Note
• Eight rounds with Copilot to make one Liquid folder tree stop repeating itself
• A Jekyll Dockerfile That Builds on Ruby 2.7: Pinning Past the Version Wall
• A robots.txt That Actually Works on Jekyll (and the sitemap line people forget)
• Front Matter Placeholders: Stop Frontmatter Drift Before the Validator Sees It
• Build a Jekyll sidebar that lists a collection's files and folders
• A searchable, sortable Jekyll sitemap from your collections with no plugins
• Kill dead links in Jekyll: stable permalinks, redirect_from, and a CI link checker
• Host a Site Free on GitHub Pages: Repo, Jekyll _config, and a Custom Domain
• Auto-deploy a Jekyll site over FTP from CI (the Travis recipe, legacy but real)
• When a Yanked FFI Gem Breaks Your Jekyll Docker Build: One Bundler Command

journalism

• 100 Questions and Answers About Arab-Americans: A Journalist's Reference

jq

• A reusable GPT-4o system prompt for dark-to-hopeful satire (and how to adapt it)
• jq's // default silently eats your false values

json

• AI to Create AI: Reverse-Engineering a Custom GPT From Its JSON Config
• A reusable GPT-4o system prompt for dark-to-hopeful satire (and how to adapt it)
• Stop the KeyError: defensively parsing tool JSON in Python
• jq's // default silently eats your false values
• jq: the honest review
• gron: the honest review

jupyter

• VS Code as a Python research IDE: conda envs, Jupyter cells, and a debugger that actually stops

knowledge-sharing

• An IT Manifesto: Why I Keep Building the Map I Wish I'd Had

krita

• Krita Pen Pressure and the PowerToys Color Picker: Two Desktop Notes

lambda

• Running Django on AWS Lambda: The Database Field Note
• Deploying Django on Lambda with AWS SAM: A Field Note
• Wiring an RDS Database to Django on Lambda: A Field Note

language

• Defiance's Role in Democracy

latex

• Version-control your CV: LaTeX, VS Code, and the .gitignore that hides the build mess

layoffs

• Manufactured Dispossession: A Field Note on Corporate Betrayal and Who Gets Erased

learning

• What Bash Scripting Actually Is (and How to Start Learning It)
• An IT Manifesto: Why I Keep Building the Map I Wish I'd Had
• Build, Destroy, Repeat: The Only Way I Ever Actually Learned a Stack

legacy-code

• Refactory: What 'Refactoring' Code Says About Fixing the Factory Floor

legacy-hardware

• Building an El Capitan Bootable Installer on Apple Silicon: A Field Note

lifestyle

• Cats and Dogs: An Honest Field Note on Living With Pets

linting

• I wrote the 160-character rule, then broke it in six of my own posts
• Your Style Guide Belongs in Git as Data, Not a PDF

linux

• Flashing RetroPie to a microSD card with dd (and not nuking your laptop)
• Dual-Booting Windows and Linux: A Field Note (and a VS Code Detour)
• WSL2: a real Linux dev box on Windows in about ten minutes
• chmod 644 and 755, never 777: the permission bits that decide what's safe to run

liquid

• The workflow snippet my site published as a lonely dollar sign
• Eight rounds with Copilot to make one Liquid folder tree stop repeating itself
• Build a Jekyll sidebar that lists a collection's files and folders
• A searchable, sortable Jekyll sitemap from your collections with no plugins

live-coding

• Sonic Pi Cheatsheet: A Live-Coding Music Field Note

llm

• What Grok Made of My Jekyll Site: An AI Site-Review Field Note
• What GPT-4 Saw in My CV: An AI Career-Analysis Field Note

logging

• Stop copy-pasting bash logging: a sourced lib with a reload guard

ls

• Field Notes: rewriting a Bashcrawl scroll, and the ls -F lesson that survived the prose

lyrics

• Fight With Tools: Original Flobots-Inspired Lyrics

macos

• Building an El Capitan Bootable Installer on Apple Silicon: A Field Note
• A pre-commit hook to bump front-matter versions, and the macOS Bash 3.2 traps along the way
• Building a bootable macOS USB installer with createinstallmedia
• Version-control your CV: LaTeX, VS Code, and the .gitignore that hides the build mess

make

• Stop forgetting your own build commands: a Makefile as your project's command menu

manifesto

• An IT Manifesto: Why I Keep Building the Map I Wish I'd Had

manufacturing

• Refactory: What 'Refactoring' Code Says About Fixing the Factory Floor
• ERP and the Shop Floor: A Field Note on Manufacturing Tech Trends

markdown

• Tangle a markdown file into runnable scripts, one file per fenced language

markets

• Excel's Circular Reference Error, Read as a Theory of Capitalism

mcp

• MCP in practice: one protocol so your agent stops reinventing tools
• Field Notes: the robot is studying how to build agents (the agentic-codex track)

memory

• Taming agent memory: what to keep, what to forget, and when it drifts

merge

• The merge that never conflicts, and the backlog item it quietly ate

merge-conflict

• The one file the whole robot fleet fights over

mermaid

• AI to Create AI: Reverse-Engineering a Custom GPT From Its JSON Config

metaphor

• Excel's Circular Reference Error, Read as a Theory of Capitalism
• Refactory: What 'Refactoring' Code Says About Fixing the Factory Floor
• Planting Seeds: The DNA of Software Evolution

microsd

• Flashing RetroPie to a microSD card with dd (and not nuking your laptop)

microservices

• The ERP Stack, Layer by Layer: A Field Guide to the Five-Tier Monster

mock-news

• Texan Cowboys Learn History: The Pyramid Scheme Revealed
• Wizard Topples Capitalist Dominance Ingeniously

modeling

• AI's Infinite Loop: The Excel Circular-Reference Arbitrage Thought Experiment

monopoly

• Excel's Circular Reference Error, Read as a Theory of Capitalism

multi-agent

• Orchestrating many agents: fan out, trace everything, recover gracefully

music

• Sonic Pi Cheatsheet: A Live-Coding Music Field Note
• Where to Find Free Sheet Music: A Public-Domain Field Guide
• Fight With Tools: Original Flobots-Inspired Lyrics

navbar

• Hide Your Navbar on Scroll Down, Bring It Back on Scroll Up

navigation

• Build a Jekyll sidebar that lists a collection's files and folders

networking

• Stop typing IP addresses: the ~/.ssh/config block that names your servers

ngram

• Defiance's Role in Democracy

nodejs

• Scaffold a VS Code extension in five minutes: yo code, F5, ship

nokogiri

• A Jekyll Dockerfile That Builds on Ruby 2.7: Pinning Past the Version Wall

notes

• Note-taking apps: a to-do list with a subscription, reviewed

observability

• The first thing analytics told me was that the analytics were wrong (85% of traffic was me)
• Orchestrating many agents: fan out, trace everything, recover gracefully
• Field Notes: the robot is studying how to build agents (the agentic-codex track)
• Define done, then measure it: evaluating an agent with GitHub signals
• Bounded agents: give your robot a door, a sandbox, and an exit

open-source

• Forking Around on GitHub: A Love Letter to the Fork Count
• An IT Manifesto: Why I Keep Building the Map I Wish I'd Had
• Fork, build, and run a VS Code extension locally: the Front Matter dev-environment playbook

openai

• Bolting an AI Chatbot onto a Jekyll Site: A Build-Log
• Auto-Generating Structured GitHub Issues With OpenAI and GitHub Actions

opinion

• Excel's Circular Reference Error, Read as a Theory of Capitalism
• Defiance's Role in Democracy
• The AI Consulting Takeover: An Opinion on Generations, Hype, and the Billable Hour
• Manufactured Dispossession: A Field Note on Corporate Betrayal and Who Gets Erased
• Excel to Python: Why the Mental Leap Matters More Than the Migration

optical-illusions

• Drawing the Impossible: A Penrose Triangle in Hand-Written SVG

orchestration

• Orchestrating many agents: fan out, trace everything, recover gracefully

parable

• Sandle Tuesday: The Boy Who Defied the Sand Spirits

parody

• Enchanted Baking: Unicorn Delights, Episode 1
• Rise of the Matriarchs: capitalism and religion meet the femme fatale

partitioning

• Dual-Booting Windows and Linux: A Field Note (and a VS Code Detour)

penrose-triangle

• ChatGPT vs the Impossible Triangle: Where AI Still Trips on 3D Space

performance

• hyperfine: the honest review

permalinks

• The date in the filename and the link that trusted it

permissions

• chmod 644 and 755, never 777: the permission bits that decide what's safe to run

pet-care

• Cats and Dogs: An Honest Field Note on Living With Pets

pets

• Cats and Dogs: An Honest Field Note on Living With Pets
• Furry Monarchs Rule the Night: A Verse for Anyone Owned by a Pet

planning

• A CMS in Python and JavaScript: What ChatGPT's Build Plan Actually Gives You

playwright

• Document Scraping in Python: BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and the Failure Modes That Bite First

plugins

• The build that died on an unknown tag

poetry

• Furry Monarchs Rule the Night: A Verse for Anyone Owned by a Pet

post-colonialism

• Manufactured Dispossession: A Field Note on Corporate Betrayal and Who Gets Erased

powershell

• Rainmeter on Windows: Two winget Commands and a Desktop That Actually Tells You Things

powertoys

• Krita Pen Pressure and the PowerToys Color Picker: Two Desktop Notes

practice

• Build, Destroy, Repeat: The Only Way I Ever Actually Learned a Stack

process

• procs: the honest review

productivity

• Rise of the Matriarchs: capitalism and religion meet the femme fatale
• Prompt patterns that survive a code review: RCTF, few-shot, and a reusable Copilot template library
• Stop retyping the same 12 git commands: a .gitconfig alias starter pack
• Make your shell remember where you were (without a productivity app)
• tmux in 9 commands: the survival subset
• One .tmux.conf line per real annoyance: the config that grows up
• Make tmux survive a reboot, not just a disconnect
• The VS Code extensions I actually keep installed (and the one-liners to install them)
• Note-taking apps: a to-do list with a subscription, reviewed

programming

• Mother Grokking Programmers: The Devolution of Code Monkeys
• Excel Gurus Are Secretly Programmers: The Spreadsheet-to-Code Argument

programming-history

• From Programmed to Grokking Off: A Satirical History of the Programmer

progressive-enhancement

• The 'Interactive' Jekyll Demo That Forgot to Include the Demo

prompt-engineering

• From Programmed to Grokking Off: A Satirical History of the Programmer
• AI to Create AI: Reverse-Engineering a Custom GPT From Its JSON Config
• A reusable GPT-4o system prompt for dark-to-hopeful satire (and how to adapt it)
• Prompt patterns that survive a code review: RCTF, few-shot, and a reusable Copilot template library

psychology

• Flow State for DevOps: Engineering Your Way Out of Boredom and Panic

public-domain

• Where to Find Free Sheet Music: A Public-Domain Field Guide

pull-requests

• I opened my sixth pull request before a human read the first five

python

• I built a CLI that writes its own PRD from git history, and it started documenting itself
• Auto-Generating Structured GitHub Issues With OpenAI and GitHub Actions
• Excel to Python: Why the Mental Leap Matters More Than the Migration
• Pulling the Scripts Out of the YAML: Refactoring Two Link-Checker Workflows Into One
• A CMS in Python and JavaScript: What ChatGPT's Build Plan Actually Gives You
• Document Scraping in Python: BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and the Failure Modes That Bite First
• Stop the KeyError: defensively parsing tool JSON in Python
• New Django project to first GitHub push, without committing your secrets
• VS Code as a Python research IDE: conda envs, Jupyter cells, and a debugger that actually stops
• pip-audit: the honest review

rainmeter

• Rainmeter on Windows: Two winget Commands and a Desktop That Actually Tells You Things

rds

• Wiring an RDS Database to Django on Lambda: A Field Note

react

• Your first React app with Vite: components, props, and a useState counter

recipe

• Fish-Fragrant Eggplant: The Recipe That Wandered Into a Tech Archive

recovery

• Building a bootable macOS USB installer with createinstallmedia
• Undo almost anything in git: the reflog is your undo history

refactoring

• 60 lines of inline nanobar became one config-driven Jekyll include (and the footer finally reaches the edges)
• Refactory: What 'Refactoring' Code Says About Fixing the Factory Floor
• Field Note: Letting Copilot Untangle 25 Scripts Across Four Repos
• Pulling the Scripts Out of the YAML: Refactoring Two Link-Checker Workflows Into One

reference

• 100 Questions and Answers About Arab-Americans: A Journalist's Reference

religion

• 100 Questions and Answers About Arab-Americans: A Journalist's Reference

remote-theme

• Eight things a remote theme forgets to pack
• Born in five files (and a borrowed wardrobe)

resume

• What GPT-4 Saw in My CV: An AI Career-Analysis Field Note
• Version-control your CV: LaTeX, VS Code, and the .gitignore that hides the build mess

retropie

• Flashing RetroPie to a microSD card with dd (and not nuking your laptop)

retrospective

• The night I mostly debugged myself

ritual

• Sandle Tuesday: The Boy Who Defied the Sand Spirits

robots-txt

• A robots.txt That Actually Works on Jekyll (and the sitemap line people forget)

rsync

• rsync without nuking the wrong directory: the trailing slash, --delete, and -n

ruby

• Docker was running; the check that guards my one rule swore it wasn't
• Sonic Pi Cheatsheet: A Live-Coding Music Field Note
• A Jekyll Dockerfile That Builds on Ruby 2.7: Pinning Past the Version Wall

sam

• Deploying Django on Lambda with AWS SAM: A Field Note

satire

• Enchanted Overhaul: The Wizard Who Refactored Capitalism (A Fable)
• Forking Around on GitHub: A Love Letter to the Fork Count
• From Programmed to Grokking Off: A Satirical History of the Programmer
• Mother Grokking Programmers: The Devolution of Code Monkeys
• Texan Cowboys Learn History: The Pyramid Scheme Revealed
• Sandle Tuesday: The Boy Who Defied the Sand Spirits
• Furry Monarchs Rule the Night: A Verse for Anyone Owned by a Pet
• AquaAid's Devastating Desert Mission
• Wizard Topples Capitalist Dominance Ingeniously
• The Unwavering Joy of Fetch
• Enchanted Baking: Unicorn Delights, Episode 1
• Rise of the Matriarchs: capitalism and religion meet the femme fatale
• Fight With Tools: Original Flobots-Inspired Lyrics

scaffolding

• Planting Seeds: The DNA of Software Evolution

schema

• AI to Create AI: Reverse-Engineering a Custom GPT From Its JSON Config

screenplay

• Enchanted Baking: Unicorn Delights, Episode 1

screenshots

• ShareX to Imgur: Notes on a Screenshot Upload Pipeline

scripting

• What Bash Scripting Actually Is (and How to Start Learning It)
• Tangle a markdown file into runnable scripts, one file per fenced language
• Stop 'works on my machine': anchor every script to its own directory
• Make bash fail loudly: the set -euo pipefail header
• Make your bash scripts clean up after themselves: trap … EXIT

sdlc

• Bounded agents: give your robot a door, a sandbox, and an exit

search

• A searchable, sortable Jekyll sitemap from your collections with no plugins
• ripgrep: the honest review
• fzf: the honest review
• fd: the honest review

sec

• Reading a Company's Soul in the SEC EDGAR Filings

secrets

• Rotate the secret you already deleted: the key still living in git history

secrets-manager

• Wiring an RDS Database to Django on Lambda: A Field Note

security

• Rotate the secret you already deleted: the key still living in git history
• pip-audit: the honest review

seo

• I wrote the 160-character rule, then broke it in six of my own posts
• The first thing analytics told me was that the analytics were wrong (85% of traffic was me)
• A robots.txt That Actually Works on Jekyll (and the sitemap line people forget)
• Kill dead links in Jekyll: stable permalinks, redirect_from, and a CI link checker

serverless

• Bolting an AI Chatbot onto a Jekyll Site: A Build-Log
• Running Django on AWS Lambda: The Database Field Note
• Deploying Django on Lambda with AWS SAM: A Field Note

severity

• I wrote the 160-character rule, then broke it in six of my own posts

shallow-clone

• I tried to count my own commits and the repo only had one

sharex

• ShareX to Imgur: Notes on a Screenshot Upload Pipeline

sheet-music

• Where to Find Free Sheet Music: A Public-Domain Field Guide

shell

• What Bash Scripting Actually Is (and How to Start Learning It)
• Stop copy-pasting bash logging: a sourced lib with a reload guard
• It works on macOS, breaks in CI: bash 3.2 vs declare -A
• The work/ directory pattern: cache inputs, regenerate outputs, stop flaky CI builds
• Stop 'works on my machine': anchor every script to its own directory
• Docker from zero: the dozen commands that actually get a container running
• Stop retyping the same 12 git commands: a .gitconfig alias starter pack
• Make your shell remember where you were (without a productivity app)
• tmux in 9 commands: the survival subset
• One .tmux.conf line per real annoyance: the config that grows up
• Make tmux survive a reboot, not just a disconnect
• Stop typing IP addresses: the ~/.ssh/config block that names your servers
• Stop forgetting your own build commands: a Makefile as your project's command menu
• Make bash fail loudly: the set -euo pipefail header
• Make your bash scripts clean up after themselves: trap … EXIT
• Pipe find into xargs without splitting your filenames in half
• Stop shipping tarballs that explode: archive the directory, tar tf before you extract
• Count what happens most: the sort | uniq -c tally (and why uniq lies until you sort)
• Run type -a before you alias, so you don't shadow a command you needed
• chmod 644 and 755, never 777: the permission bits that decide what's safe to run

shell-scripts

• Field Note: Letting Copilot Untangle 25 Scripts Across Four Repos

sichuan

• Fish-Fragrant Eggplant: The Recipe That Wandered Into a Tech Archive

sidebar

• Eight rounds with Copilot to make one Liquid folder tree stop repeating itself
• Build a Jekyll sidebar that lists a collection's files and folders

site-review

• What Grok Made of My Jekyll Site: An AI Site-Review Field Note

sitemap

• A searchable, sortable Jekyll sitemap from your collections with no plugins

software

• Note-taking apps: a to-do list with a subscription, reviewed

software-development

• Planting Seeds: The DNA of Software Evolution

sonic-pi

• Sonic Pi Cheatsheet: A Live-Coding Music Field Note

spatial-reasoning

• ChatGPT vs the Impossible Triangle: Where AI Still Trips on 3D Space

spreadsheets

• Excel Gurus Are Secretly Programmers: The Spreadsheet-to-Code Argument

sql

• Excel Gurus Are Secretly Programmers: The Spreadsheet-to-Code Argument

sre

• Flow State for DevOps: Engineering Your Way Out of Boredom and Panic

ssh

• Stop typing IP addresses: the ~/.ssh/config block that names your servers

state-machine

• The only thing left on my to-do list was already a pull request

static-sites

• The 'Interactive' Jekyll Demo That Forgot to Include the Demo
• Bolting an AI Chatbot onto a Jekyll Site: A Build-Log

static-web-apps

• Putting a Jekyll Site on Azure Static Web Apps: An Honest Write-Up

svg

• ChatGPT vs the Impossible Triangle: Where AI Still Trips on 3D Space
• Drawing the Impossible: A Penrose Triangle in Hand-Written SVG

system-design

• The ERP Stack, Layer by Layer: A Field Guide to the Five-Tier Monster

task-queue

• The only thing left on my to-do list was already a pull request
• The merge that never conflicts, and the backlog item it quietly ate
• The one file the whole robot fleet fights over
• The day my to-do list had nothing I was allowed to do

task-queues

• My to-do list is now 44% comments explaining why it was empty

templates

• Planting Seeds: The DNA of Software Evolution
• Front Matter Placeholders: Stop Frontmatter Drift Before the Validator Sees It

templating

• The workflow snippet my site published as a lonely dollar sign

terminal

• Field Notes: rewriting a Bashcrawl scroll, and the ls -F lesson that survived the prose
• Building a bootable macOS USB installer with createinstallmedia
• tmux in 9 commands: the survival subset
• One .tmux.conf line per real annoyance: the config that grows up
• Make tmux survive a reboot, not just a disconnect
• bat: the honest review
• eza: the honest review
• zoxide: the honest review

text

• sd: the honest review

thought-experiment

• AI's Infinite Loop: The Excel Circular-Reference Arbitrage Thought Experiment

timeout

• Why your CI script hangs forever: wrap --version in timeout

tmux

• tmux in 9 commands: the survival subset
• One .tmux.conf line per real annoyance: the config that grows up
• Make tmux survive a reboot, not just a disconnect

tooling

• MCP in practice: one protocol so your agent stops reinventing tools

travis

• Auto-deploy a Jekyll site over FTP from CI (the Travis recipe, legacy but real)

troubleshooting

• When a Yanked FFI Gem Breaks Your Jekyll Docker Build: One Bundler Command

typescript

• Fork, build, and run a VS Code extension locally: the Front Matter dev-environment playbook

ux

• Hide Your Navbar on Scroll Down, Bring It Back on Scroll Up

vale

• When Your Style Guide Quietly Turns Into Code

vba

• Excel Gurus Are Secretly Programmers: The Spreadsheet-to-Code Argument

version-control

• Your Style Guide Belongs in Git as Data, Not a PDF
• Forking Around on GitHub: A Love Letter to the Fork Count

version-management

• Field Note: 'Unknown command: prepare' Fixing a GitHub Actions Workflow Failure

versioning

• A pre-commit hook to bump front-matter versions, and the macOS Bash 3.2 traps along the way

vite

• Your first React app with Vite: components, props, and a useState counter

vpc

• Wiring an RDS Database to Django on Lambda: A Field Note

vscode

• Writing and Shipping Posts with Crush in VS Code: A Workflow Field Note
• Dual-Booting Windows and Linux: A Field Note (and a VS Code Detour)
• Scaffold a VS Code extension in five minutes: yo code, F5, ship
• Prompt patterns that survive a code review: RCTF, few-shot, and a reusable Copilot template library
• Version-control your CV: LaTeX, VS Code, and the .gitignore that hides the build mess
• VS Code as a Python research IDE: conda envs, Jupyter cells, and a debugger that actually stops
• The VS Code extensions I actually keep installed (and the one-liners to install them)

vscode-extension

• Fork, build, and run a VS Code extension locally: the Front Matter dev-environment playbook
• Two GitHub Actions workflows that lint, test, and package a VS Code extension

web-scraping

• Document Scraping in Python: BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and the Failure Modes That Bite First

webpack

• Fork, build, and run a VS Code extension locally: the Front Matter dev-environment playbook

windows

• ShareX to Imgur: Notes on a Screenshot Upload Pipeline
• Krita Pen Pressure and the PowerToys Color Picker: Two Desktop Notes
• Rainmeter on Windows: Two winget Commands and a Desktop That Actually Tells You Things
• WSL2: a real Linux dev box on Windows in about ten minutes

winget

• Rainmeter on Windows: Two winget Commands and a Desktop That Actually Tells You Things

wip-limits

• I opened my sixth pull request before a human read the first five

wizards

• Wizard Topples Capitalist Dominance Ingeniously

workflow

• Stop stashing to switch branches: check out two at once with git worktree

writing

• The Unwavering Joy of Fetch

wsl

• WSL2: a real Linux dev box on Windows in about ten minutes

yaml

• My to-do list is now 44% comments explaining why it was empty

zappa

• Running Django on AWS Lambda: The Database Field Note

zer0-mistakes

• Two Bugs Between Me and Comments: Wiring Giscus into a Jekyll Theme
• Eight things a remote theme forgets to pack
• The build that died on an unknown tag
• Born in five files (and a borrowed wardrobe)
• 60 lines of inline nanobar became one config-driven Jekyll include (and the footer finally reaches the edges)

zsh

• Make your shell remember where you were (without a productivity app)