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I ve continued to work on the project I discussed in the last post, and it s now well into the real project range. At the moment it s about 150k lines of code, after 574 commits, 298 PRs, 300 issues. Many of those last two have come recently as I ve adapted my workflow, which is what I ll Continue reading AI Code Binge: The Next 50k Lines
I recently took a week off work to recharge and ended up going on a bit of a binge planning and building out a new system. It gave me a chance to explore some non-Gemini/non-Google stuff with more energy than I m normally able to in my spare time, and I figured I d share some thoughts: Continue reading AI Code Binge, February 2026 Style
Cleaning a room is one of those things that almost everyone learns, but we all learn differently, and we all do differently. You would think that by the time we re adults, we ve done it enough that there s barely a how to even think about. However, sometimes I, like this past weekend, stand in a messy Continue reading How to Clean a Room
Greyhound is a minimalist war movie that feels like someone dropped an after action report into an AI. I respect the novel attempt at discarding tropes and Hollywood-isms but nothing else was built back onto the remaining skeleton, leaving only the fearless leader, trusty sidekick and NPC crew against a faceless enemy.
I want to start by acknowledging that this is a topic that directly affects people s livelihoods. Real people are losing real work to generative AI right now, and that matters. I m not going to pretend this is purely an abstract or anonymous philosophical debate. Also I have enjoyed every Sanderson book I ve read and have Continue reading AI, Art Mortgages
I ve been thinking about build speed lately, usually while waiting for builds, and I think the thing that s underappreciated isn t the raw numbers, it s that different speeds are qualitatively different experiences. Faster is always better, but it s far from a linear relationship. Working on a package that builds in 100ms is basically invisible. You don t Continue reading Building at the speed of…
Sinners reminds me of The Fifth Element in that it is an excellent movie that suffers from teasing you with something bigger than what made it on screen. It could easily be another hour longer but then it would be something different. It is a more-than-but-not-quite-complete movie.
I think most people like to think of their place in a creative effort as the beginning or the end or even both, but the reality is that we re always in the middle. The most original ideas are still cued by experiences. The most original inventions are still spurred by problems. Nobody starts from zero, Continue reading The Middle
If you put an architect or designer in an unfamiliar space and take a blindfold off, the first thing they re likely to do is look up. They re looking for load-bearing walls. For structure. For constraints. They might not even be able to tell at a glance. But it s so important that it s worth a try. Continue reading Look Up First
One Battle After Another was well-written, well-paced, well-cast, well-acted and well-shot, and yet felt completely forgettable and somehow unoriginal. There were echoes of Tarantino, Terminator 2, Easy Rider and many others, but that’s all it felt like. This might be an accomplishment for other directors but for Anderson it was a disappointment.