The Harness Matters More Than the Model
Two recent builds showed me that steering, specs, environments, tools, and verification loops often matter more than paying for a stronger coding model.
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Working with Kiro
Building Surfdeck with Kiro showed that small tasks, standing context, live hooks, and independent review mattered more than the model itself.
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Your Machine Is the Boundary
Moving local AI projects onto public URLs turns a laptop's invisible safeguards into explicit decisions about identity, permissions, resilience, and cost.
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Clippy Came Back and Is Less Chatty
Codex pets bring back Clippy's character without the interruption, turning animated assistants into ambient status lights for long-running agent tasks.
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How Long Will It Still Be Yours?
Software support, subscriptions and entitlement checks increasingly decide how long the devices we buy remain ours to use.
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Multiple GitHub Accounts on One Mac: Folder-Routed Identity Without SSH Keys
A three-layer setup routes Git commit identity, HTTPS push credentials, and the GitHub CLI account by repository folder, including in headless shells.
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Why I Stopped Using BJJ Notes and Built My Own
Building a BJJ training log in Notion with Claude turned two years of scattered notes into a connected system of reads, variations, and outcomes.
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What Decides Whether Technology Gets Used
Technology adoption depends less on what a tool can do than on exit costs, indirect effects and whether non-users have already chosen not to use it.
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The Words Were Never Hidden
Decoy Font fooled frontier vision models with a typographic illusion, but ordinary OCR found the message underneath.
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A Week Inside Marker
A week with Marker showed how a writing tool can help by asking questions, challenging structure, and sometimes refusing to manufacture an answer.
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