Tech, teams, and the bits in between.
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The dent and the crater
On hardening as a senior leader, the cost of walls that read as wisdom, and the quiet work that keeps a dent from becoming a crater.
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I Built a Read-Later Chrome Extension Because Pocket Died
Pocket shut down in July 2025. I needed somewhere to dump the articles I keep telling myself I'll read later. So I built a Chrome extension that does exactly that and nothing else. Local-only, no accounts, no tracking.
3min 717 w -
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Product market fit isn't a stage, it's a gauntlet
PMF gets sold as a milestone. It's actually a gauntlet that bends founders, breaks teams, and quietly poisons technical decisions. Most of the damage isn't from missing PMF — it's from how you behave while looking for it.
6min 1,501 w -
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Change management
On the personal version of change management — the long, weird middle bit between who you were and who you're becoming.
4min 1,004 w -
Predicting Crime in Aotearoa Series · 8 parts
- Intro Predicting Crime in Aotearoa 24.03.26
- Part 01 Wrangling a Million Crime Records 26.03.26
- Part 02 Giving Crime a Place on the Map 26.03.26
- Part 03 Crime as Video 26.03.26
- Part 04 What the Data Actually Shows 02.04.26
- Part 05 Can You Beat Last Month? 09.04.26
- Part 06 Teaching a Neural Network to Watch Crime Like Video 16.04.26
- Part 07 Three Ways to Look at Time 23.04.26
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What an hour of your attention is worth
You pay Big Tech about $1,000 a year in attention. Here's how to read the meter — and why building your own is suddenly cheaper than opting out.
14min 3,672 w -
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Open-Source Agent That Teaches Claude Code Your Architecture
AI made software cheap to build but not cheap to scale. Evolutionary architecture with domain-aware AI agents is the missing piece.
6min 1,567 w -
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OpenHealth – Chat with Apple Health Data, Anywhere
I built OpenHealth because Claude's and ChatGPT's Apple Health connectors are US-only. Drop your export.zip, get seven markdown files any LLM can read — browser, CLI, or phone-to-desktop over WebRTC.
5min 1,155 w -
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The Future of Security Is an Open-Source Model That Detects and Acts on Threats
Anthropic's Glasswing is for enterprises with six-figure security budgets. The rest of us need open-source security agents that learn our systems and act autonomously.
7min 1,695 w -
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What if your browser built the UI for you?
We're still shipping hand-crafted frontends while AI can generate entire interfaces. What if the browser itself generated the UI from an API manifest and your preferences?
5min 1,132 w -
NanoClaw Architecture Series · 2 parts
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How I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone
Turn any Android phone into a programmable SMS gateway for your SaaS — no per-message fees, no carrier contracts, no vendor lock-in.
8min 2,154 w -
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Careers in the Self-Driving Codebase Era
The engineering career ladder was built for when code was expensive. Code is now cheap. What's valuable has fundamentally shifted.
6min 1,390 w -
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What if a Worm Could Make AI Agents Smarter?
Introducing c302 — a research project that uses the C. elegans roundworm's neural dynamics as a behavioural control layer for an LLM coding agent.
5min 1,281 w -
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Why LLMs waste half their brain
AI coding agents burn too many tool calls just figuring out where things are. I built codemap to fix that — cheap model indexes, cheap model selects, big model codes.
4min 956 w
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