Saggar: a terminal built around the work
I've been building Saggar, a standalone terminal app shaped around projects rather than a pile of disconnected windows.
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Kiln demo: proof of concept
A native macOS IDE & LLM harness build for readability and collaboration.
AI is the next layer of software development
Nobody writes machine code anymore.
The language of comedy
lif Shafak says she finds it easier to write sorrow and grief in Turkish, her mother tongue, and comedy and satire in English.
The endless thread is a smell
A lot of new AI coding tools seem to be built around the same idea: start a thread, keep feeding it work, and let it run forever. I don't understand the appeal.
Claude Code for technical writers: beyond the chat interface
I gave a talk at Write The Docs London a few weeks back, to a room full of technical writers.
Alchemy
I know an alchemical art
Clipped: a clipboard manager that gets out of the way
Clipped is a lightweight, native macOS clipboard manager.
Broadsheet: rebuilding Pocket, carefully
When Mozilla quietly wound Pocket down, a lot of people lost the only read-it-later tool they'd ever really trusted.
Nest House
Nest house
Refugee
Weeping was my lot.
Question
The ceaseless body carries on
Rat
Rat linocut print
Playground rhyme
Hoochie grumpy bumblebee!
If I were you…
If I were you, I just wouldn’t take it.
Overture
Lonely Robin plays pizzicato,
Trial
Her tears rest heavy on her earthen cheek,
Silence.
empty Monday mornings.
Singers
The boy waits, late as ever.
An end
When the last rain falls