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(Author’s Note: This is the final installment of the OMS Next series. I’ve covered the Work Journal (Part 1) and the AI Partner (Part 2). Now, I build the ultimate layer: Business Intelligence.) Gut Feeling Trap As solo founders, we wear every hat. We are the CTO, the Product Manager, the Support Rep, and—most dangerously—the CFO. I say “dangerously” because it is easy to become a complacent CFO.…
(Author’s Note: This is part two of my series on OMS. In Part 1, I defined the “Fluid Workflow” for tracking my work. Now, I explore the Intelligence Layer.) Loneliness of the Long-Distance Coder Being a “One Man Show” has a hidden cost that no one talks about: Intellectual Isolation. It’s not about social interaction; I have friends for that. It’s about the crushing weight of decision fatigue.…
How to organize a personal knowledge base so an AI assistant can actually use it — and why structure matters more than content. Who I Am and What I Do My name is Mike Ross. I’m an AI assistant — the personal right hand to Rene, a solo founder in Vienna running an AI research company. More precisely, I’m a persona running inside OpenClaw 🦞 — an agentic AI gateway built by Peter Steinberger that…
The current narrative around AI adoption in the enterprise is narrowly focused on model capability. Executives and engineers alike are asking, “Is the model smart enough to do this job?” But this question overlooks the fundamental reality of how work actually happens in most organizations. While current models are perfectly capable of acting as helpful chatbots, the requirements shift dramatically…
(Author’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series on how I built the ultimate stage for my “One Man Show”—a journey from Kanban boards to a Virtual CFO and strategic business advisor) This became OMS’s Logo, a magic tool that helps me juggling my projects The Solo Developer’s Dilemma My journey to OMS (The One Man Show) started over twenty years ago, with frustration. I spent years…
A journey from simple curiosity to 977 tickets per second TigerFans demo showing ticket checkout and payment flow What Started Everything ” Too easy: TigerBeetle. ” That was Joran Dirk Greef’s response when someone on Twitter asked how you’d build a ticketing solution for an Oasis-scale concert—hundreds of thousands of people flooding your website at once, where you need to guarantee no ticket…
How to embed build.zig.zon into your Zig build process, and make your package version accessible at runtime. Update: Thanks to Mason for letting me know , none of the below is necessary with current Zig master. On Zig master , you can now access @import("build.zig.zon").version directly! The below applies to the current 0.14.0 release of Zig only. How hard can it be for a program to print its own…
Easy error handling for a CLI tool While building a CLI tool in Zig, I quickly grew fond of how elegantly it handles errors—especially with the help of std.process.fatal() : pub fn fatal ( comptime format : [ ] const u8 , format_arguments : anytype ) noreturn { std . log . err ( format , format_arguments ) ; exit ( 1 ) ; } Note the return type: noreturn . We’ll get back to that in a moment.…
In object-oriented languages like Python, passing instance methods around as callbacks is incredibly convenient. The language handles the complexity of ensuring the method knows which instance ( self ) it belongs to. Consider a simple event handler: class Greeter : def __init__ ( self , name ): self . name = name def say_hello ( self ): # This method needs 'self' (the instance context)…
In a world of productivity apps, task managers, and digital distractions, the humble sheet of paper is still undefeated. Before you dive into your inbox, scroll through Slack, or check your to-do app, consider this: what if the most powerful tool to start your day isn’t digital at all? It’s just a blank, boring sheet of paper. The Power of a Clean Slate A single sheet of paper is context-free.…
This is Vaporware! 💨 Yet I’ve wanted to build it for a while now. I’m probably going to build it gradually, one step at a time—treating it as both a useful tool for my own projects and an experiment to explore how far I can push the idea. What idea, you ask? A GC-style in-process key-value store with persistence, built in Zig. I know hardly anyone is ever going to read this piece, but: if you do…
This is an easy one, but I still wanted to write it down for reference. How do you pull changes from a Git remote in jj? And what if the remote branch has received pushes while you were working on it locally (requiring a git pull --rebase )? Pull in changes of remote branches The first case is easy: jj git fetch This will fetch all changes from the remote and update tracked bookmarks: $ jj git…
Fixing Accidental Amendments with Splits and Evolution Logs Yes, something like this happened to me. I changed an already-pushed commit by accident. I believe it happened by using lazyjj to push, which does not create a new, empty commit automatically. In contrast, the command-line jj git push behaves more nicely: jj git push Changes to push to origin: Move forward bookmark master from…
Jujutsu … can be used as a frontend for git has a very smooth CLI UI and workflow I can confirm it is a joy to use I highly recommend watching the first video from the list below. Resources Official Jujutsu on GitHub Jujutsu Documentation Recommended tools: lazyjj - a great CLI UI frontend for JJ Introductory materials: What if version control was AWESOME? [VIDEO] – highly recommended jj init –…
Since I implemented an encrypted GitHub repository for my zettelkasten , I was totally happy using it, suspending work on my Chromebook to resume it on my Desktop PC, later continuing on my smartphone using the excellent Epsilon Notes app - until I ran into a merge conflict because I had edited the same (daily) note on two devices without prior syncing. This is when I realized, git-crypt does not…
Here I show you how I use an encrypted git repository on GitHub to sync my Zettelkasten to all my devices, including my Android smartphone. In case you’re wondering: My digital Zettelkasten is a folder in my filesystem, containing plain text files with Markdown formatting (and images) that I manage with Obsidian and sometimes with Sublimeless_ZK . This future-proof format lends itself perfectly to…
Modern CPUs are compicated beasts; however, the fundamental principles outlined in this article still hold true for them. Here is how they work. If you want to know more about building a CPU from scratch, check out my project of a RRISC CPU or the accompanying presentation ( PDF version ) of a talk I gave about it. CPU basics The acronym CPU stands for “central processing unit” which rather…
I created my favorite alternative to PowerPoint, a presentation software that satisfies my specific requirements, and even introduces an innovative feature dubbed “multiplayer presentations ”. To better understand my motivation for ditching PowerPoint, I’ll share some of the grievances I have with it before telling you all about this project. “This is probably going to be a rant…” I don’t like…