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Latest — 09 May 2026

Scrambling Up The Stack

Last week, I wrote about building a dry-humor travel website with Claude Code — how Claude abstracted away all the busywork and let me focus on just what mattered: the conception and the voice. Cristi looked at what I built and said, "this is not software, this is art."

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Moving Up The Stack

I spent a little time this week building a dry-humor website: a travel guide for an actual place, but with fictional activities and details. I used Claude Code and Cloudflare Pages, but the technology stack and tooling are completely irrelevant — the heart of the website is the conception, the voice,

Agents, etcetera

We’ve been entertaining family and guests, and the time got away from me, and I didn’t post last week. Apologies! The Agentic Coding Wave Steve Yegge’s observation on Google and AI adoption (via Dare): The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same Al

Compounding

I think a lot about compounding. Not in the sense of compounding interest, tho that is a great and powerful thing. But the compounding of knowledge. One of my favorite books is Jeff Tweedy’s “How to Write One Song”. He describes how he just keeps plugging away, building an

Claude Code everywhere

I am using Claude Code for almost all projects these days, even if they are not explicitly coding projects. It does such a good job at planning out projects, completing them piecemeal, leaving breadcrumbs, etc. But it is a strange way to work; most humans won’t want to work

What's old is new again

I am old and used keypunch machines and teletype machines back in the day. But computers really took off for me when I got my own video terminal and a command-line prompt. That is how I started with the Apple ][ and IBM PCs, that is how I started with Unix

What developers are learning about agents

The revolutions in AI silicon, in models, and in large-scale cloud hosting are fascinating. But ultimately, they are only a small part of the story. When we look back at the electrification of the country, it was driven by revolutions in large-scale generation and transmission, though not that many people

Interesting Times

This week in AI Vlad pointed me to this article — Quantum Chemistry: AI and Quantum Transform Research - IEEE Spectrum. It is super exciting: the combination of AI “reasoning” and quantum-accurate data can find and evaluate novel molecules and materials. I’ve always been inspired by Feynman’s “There’s

Opportunity and/or Burden

I have enjoyed the This Modern World comic for years, and this week’s is a good one: Better Things Are Possible. Go check it out, and if you like Tom Tomorrow’s work, subscribe to his newsletter. One thing I really miss about the demise of newspapers is the

Principles

As I mentioned in the last several weeks, I've taken to creating an app a week using the latest AI tools – I don't have a prayer of understanding the AI wave unless I immerse myself. This week, I turned introspective and built a world cloud app