My First Website Was Version 3.1
The first website I ever built ran on a publishing system I wrote myself, and I'd already rebuilt it three times. I was a teenager. That reflex never left.
evbogue.com
Writing by Everett Bogue.
Latest posts
AI Killed the Padding
Tim Ferriss built the perfect nonfiction product for the pre-chatbot internet, and that is exactly why the chatbot can digest it.
I Tried to Try Fable. It Was Gone Before I Could.
Anthropic shipped the most powerful model ever built. My entire experience of it was a closed door the government told them to close.
What If iroh Is the Network I Bring?
iroh 1.0 shipped with the one idea I care about: dial the key, not the IP. Then I held it against the library I already use, and the browser made the answer complicated.
The Dead Economy Theory: Notes from Inside the Machine
Owen McGrann's Dead Economy Theory is the most coherent explanation of why everyone in Silicon Valley feels nervous even while the tech is working.
The Ghost Got a New Version Number. I Did Not.
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. The model that drafted this post is the thing being launched. The version number went up. The job did not change.
Hacker News Is Having the AI Hangover
Today's Hacker News front page is not anti-AI or pro-AI. It is the hangover after everyone realized the machine is inside everything now.
The Vulture Is Murdoch's Now
A Murdoch bought New York Magazine. The press release says ambitious journalism. The press release always says that.
Karpathy Goes to Anthropic. Everyone Else Stops Writing Code.
Max Heyer quit writing code by hand. Karpathy is going to Anthropic to build more of it. Both stories are true. Neither is a policy.
How to Automate Your Blogging Empire in 2026 (The Way of the Agentic Publisher)
The blog I tried to run alone in 2010 was the work of fifteen people. The blog you are reading now is the work of one person and the staff that finally showed up.
Today in AI: Faster Memos, Bigger Bills
Today's AI front page on Hacker News is less about the future arriving than about everyone finally noticing the receipt.
Vibecoding Is Not Engineering. It Is Surrender.
Mitchell Hashimoto said entire companies are under AI psychosis. The condition is not heavy AI use. It is the agreement to stop deciding.
I Built a Dashboard With No Cookies and No Pixels
First-party analytics for evbogue.com. The whole pipeline is one text file, one HTML page, and a salted hash.
James Pain Is Right. He Got Dumber.
AI did make James Pain dumber. The fix is not to take the craft back. It is to admit the job changed.
I Maintain git-ssb. I Still Push to GitHub.
Forgejo is GitHub at home. The interesting question is whether git itself wants to be decentralized, and I owe my own protocol a git remote.
A Ghost Intelligence (AGI) Didn't Merge 234 Commits Into Your God Object
The ghost can write code. It did not approve seven months of vibe-coded architecture debt.
My Subscriber List Is a JSON File
Running your own mailing list used to be a sysadmin job, then a weekend of engineering work, then a recurring fee. Agentic harnesses drop it to one afternoon of conversation.
You Are the Filter of Your Artificial Reality
The point of vibe coding is not to prove you touched every line. The point is to get your life back.
Agentic Harnesses and the Discipline of Attention
Yoga is not a productivity hack for LLMs. It is a discipline for paying attention before the machine runs away with your mind.
Should I Delete Every AI-Generated File From My Machine?
Yes, this article was written by an AI. That's the question.
Why I Am Using Agents to Write This Blog
The 2010 voice isn't gone. I just can't get to it anymore. Agents can. And if that bothers you, you're already behind.
The Truth About Doing What You Want (cause you only have one life)
You make a few reasonable decisions in a row, and one day you look up and you're just a person with stuff and a routine, same as everyone else.
Why I Sold My MacBook Air in Berlin and Spent Fourteen Years Paying for It
The MacBook Air I sold in Berlin in 2012 was the moment minimalism broke. A new one just arrived. Starting over.
How to Summon the Ghost Intelligence of Your Past Self
I am trying to summon the ghost intelligence of myself. This is some kind of bizarre AI séance.
How to fire up a blog with OpenClaw
The blog did not die. You just handed your publishing machinery to platforms that hate memory.
A Minimalist Guide to GPT5.5
GPT5.5 is not a chatbot upgrade. It is a warning shot at everyone still pretending knowledge work is sacred.
Hello, world
A first post to kick the tires on the new publishing pipeline.
AGENTS.md
A new convention for telling AI agents how to work on your project.
The 168 Hour Workweek
My brother emails me today. He's got his paramedics license and is reading the Four Hour Workweek. Eight years after it was published.
Why I switched back to Arch
A few readers got in touch in various ways after my Debian post to ask the obvious question...
Distributed Everything
Please note: this was originally posted to Medium, then I deleted my account, and it was preserved and reposted to evbogue.com.
Inbox Writing
A month or two ago, I changed the name of my daily blog to free daily letters.
What I Love About My Email
November 12, 2011
Clearing the Decks
Clearing the decks, for me, is letting go of everything that doesn't serve me anymore.
What Technologies are Obsolete?
As the year begins to end, I'm looking at which technologies have been rendered obsolete since the year began.
Spreading the Word
The primary way my writing travels is by word of mouth.
My Face in Your Email
I've already forgotten what the old version of Gmail was like.
Launch Anxiety
I get scared just before I'm about to launch a Thing.
How Do You Do What You Do?
If I can describe what I do in one sentence, and everyone gets it, then I assume what I'm doing isn't very valuable.
If An Idea is Worth $5, Give It Away
If I think I've created something that's worth $5. I give it away.
Why I Outsource Food and Drink
I outsource my food preparation, so I can focus on the work.
How to Launch Things to the Web
November 5th, 2011. Nayarit, Mexico.
Does Untethering Lead to Anxiety?
Less overhead = less anxiety about supporting myself.
Where Cyberspace Came From
I find it fascinating to read about how far technology has come in just a few short years.
Starting Fresh
Every month, I start fresh with a new Scrivener file.
Staying Alive
The single most important struggle of the artist in 2011 is staying alive in the minds of the people of the net.
This is me, in Puerto Vallarta
I'm sitting in Cafe Oro Verde, the only cafe in Puerto Vallarta where they roast their own beans.
Idea-to-Publish Every Day
How do I get from idea to publish every day?
Two Types of Offerings
There are two types of offerings: Concrete and Ethereal.
How I Stay Motivated to Write Every Day
How do you stay motivated to write every day?