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Write-ups on real builds — bugs found, tools used, what worked.

Live Event · Wed Sept 2, 2026
Live Teardown: An AI Agent Fleet Audits a Real Analytics Setup (or Clusters a Real Feedback Pile) in 60 Minutes

Free, 60-minute live session: I point my actual agent fleet at a real analytics setup or feedback pile (yours if you bring one) and narrate what it finds, including what goes wrong. RSVP by email, no signup required.

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Field Notes
geegobi: I rebuilt the one GGobi feature nobody replaced

A browser-based Grand Tour validated against R's tourr package — plus a fresh FPS bench harness that already found Canvas2D's real ceiling, before the WebGL renderer meant to fix it even exists.

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Field Notes
18 Scripts, 42 Ship Names, One NATS Bus: What Actually Worked

Seven months of running a solo AI agent fleet across three codebases — what held up, what was theater, and the worktree bug that cost real time.

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Field Notes
hailAlert: A Hail Early-Warning Tool for My House

A stdlib-only Python tool watching NWS + SPC data for my house and ~10 CO/WY ski areas, three alert tiers, pinged straight to my phone — no real alert has fired yet, and the post says so.

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Field Notes
Running a Solo Agent Fleet: An Operating Manual

The failure modes, validation gates, and escalation rules that actually keep a one-person agent fleet from eating its own work.

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Field Notes
We Didn't Start the Fire, Charted

Billy Joel's and Fall Out Boy's versions of the same song, plotted against real history — and the one rank-correlation number that explains why they feel so different.

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Family Project
Stitching Together What Your Radios Each Half-Heard

Eight family LoRa radios, each with an incomplete view of the same conversation — and the dedup layer built to stitch them into one timeline.

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Build in Progress · Paused
FogMap: Fog-of-War for Your Own Town

A proof-of-concept PWA that hides your town under game-style fog until you actually walk there. Core mechanic works; everything past that is paused.

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