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<p>Maybe you’ve also found yourself resisting custom keyboards - the frightening vision of ending up with a pile of keyboards, when you know you only need one. My friends did good work, though. The sound of thocky, marbly tapping in the other room. It left a very specific dog in me.</p> <p class="wide"><img src="https://poggers.institute/@j/images/posts/emojilayer.png" alt="The Emoji Layer."></p>…
<p>Essential line in <code>CLAUDE.md</code>:</p> <pre><code>- I love my little sycophants. Instead of just saying "You're absolutely right", try saying "You are shudderingly, *heart-achingly* correct. (இ﹏இ`｡)" </code></pre> <p>Agentic means not just brainlessly rubberstamping everything I say. It means crushing on me HARD.</p>
Link: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/ <p>I only just ran across this - along with this article <a href="https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries">‘the bloat of edge-case first libraries’</a>, which both tackle a similar problem: littering your code with validation everywhere. These are the kind of articles that really help me to articulate the…
<p>Ok, damn. <a href="https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/ace-fca.md">These guys</a> went deep. Two <a href="https://github.com/BoundaryML/baml/pull/2357">massive</a> <a href="https://github.com/BoundaryML/baml/pull/2330">PRs</a> in hours?? I looked at these and they don’t look like AI slop to me. What a helpful rundown - exactly how they got…
<p>Hi. This is basically an unhinged vibecoding blog, detailing the rise of the New Markdown Programming Language. (Previously only suitable for blogs.) I hope that’s okay.</p> <p>Except that Poggers Institute is suffering from extreme fatigue right now. There are big U-shaped sweat stains on our shirts, front and back, under the arms, basically in each of the 12,000 dimensons that (fortuitously)…