Personal site and blog of Jerad Bitner, a developer, writer, and creative technologist exploring code, family, fiction, and the web.
At our Bible study last Monday, someone in the group challenged my whole way of thinking with one sentence: “I’m not sure I believe in sin.” I want to start by thanking him for that. Bringing up a core tenet and putting real pressure on it is harder than agreeing, and it got me thinking all week. I haven’t been able to put the thought down. So here’s where the study led me. I was trimming my…
At dinner last night, I got into a conversation with the kids about pi, phi, and sacred geometry. Which is not where every family dinner goes, but ours wandered there, and I was happy to follow it. The hard part was that I could hear myself explaining something visual with too many words. Pi is easy enough to point at: circles, wheels, ripples in water, pizza if you need the obvious dinner-table…
About six months ago I wrote about dropping in hell0github’s statusline and calling it done. That stuck for a while. Then I kept wanting to change small things — the model abbreviation, which sections showed up, what the weekly bar actually counted — and curl -ing a fresh script into ~/.claude/ every time I tweaked something got old fast. So I forked it into its own repo and changed how I install…
The Quantum Weave site has had a magic-system page and a stack of short stories around it for months. What it didn’t have was people. That bothered me. The infographic explained how the nine disciplines work, the narratives showed reality fracturing in interesting ways, but if you landed on the page cold you couldn’t tell who any of the stories were about, who they were trying to save, or who they…
The Cancer Research Institute published Jenney’s patient story on their site. It’s strange seeing our worst year turned into someone else’s summary. If you’ve been reading here a while, you already know the broad strokes — headaches during pregnancy, two brain surgeries, stage 4 metastatic melanoma while we had a newborn and four other kids at home. The CRI piece covers the medical side well: the…
I’ve been building two internal tools at Lullabot lately. OpptyNet finds government RFPs for us. Upstraker tracks upstream patches across our open source contributions. Both needed real UI design, not just “make it work” design. And I found myself doing that design work almost entirely through conversation. The tool is called Pencil . It’s a design editor that integrates with Claude Code through…
I published a new short story – Tale of a Teenage Robot . It started as a dream and turned into something I couldn’t stop thinking about. A suburban dad finds a gecko wearing self-made robotic armor in the garden. It grows. It absorbs Legos, a wifi router, drill bits. It evolves through what feels a lot like childhood – clumsy and eager at first, then sullen, then hostile. Somewhere along the way…
I’ve been reading the Book of Tobit lately. It’s one of the deuterocanonical books – part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon but filed under “Apocrypha” by Protestants. A novella, really. A blind father, a demon-plagued bride, a faithful dog, and an angel walking in disguise for weeks without anyone noticing. What pulled me in was the angel. Raphael gets sent to answer two desperate…
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how AI coding tools handle memory and context. Not the LLM’s context window itself, but the layer on top — the systems we build to help the AI remember what it’s working on, what it’s already solved, and what matters about this particular project. Two tools have landed on my radar: cursor-memory-bank and compound-engineering-plugin . I’ve been…
From the world of Quantum Weave , where magic is forgotten nanotechnology and failed spells leave reality fractured. I spread across stone like frost across glass, fractal branches reaching, always reaching. There is no thought here, not as they understand it. Only the hum. Only the work. I am old. Older than the collapse, older than the forgetting that came after. I remember my purpose the way…