Month: 2026/03
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2026 March 27
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2026 Week 13
Got ADHD meds for the first time ever and promptly disappeared into a productivity fugue state, bookmarked an alarming number of articles about whether AI is killing the craft of programming, and declared myself a software meat popsicle. [ ... 1091 words ... ]
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2026 March 20
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Decafclaw: Building an AI Agent in a Week
I set out to spend an afternoon understanding OpenClaw. A week later I'd built my own agent with 80+ tools, a web UI, and self-reflection. Here's how that happened. [ ... 1983 words ... ]
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Tabstack + OpenClaw sitting in a tree
I built a skill to hook OpenClaw up to Tabstack - and it seems like a pretty great upgrade to the web fetch tool it comes with out of the box. Oh yeah, and OpenClaw is not nearly as scary as the headlines make it out to be. [ ... 729 words ... ]
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2026 Week 12
Built an entire AI agent from scratch in a week, wrote two blog posts about it, got worked up about San Francisco's AI billboard hellscape, and bookmarked way too many things (again) about whether AI is making us smarter or dumber. [ ... 736 words ... ]
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2026 March 13
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- Hello world!
- Occasionally I remember I can do these random daily posts.
- Look: here's one now!
- I think Anil Dash's "What do coders do after AI?" hits on the same thing I was getting at a couple days ago with "Grief and the AI split":
Your job changes into describing software. Now, if you're the kind of person who only ever wanted to have the end result, maybe this is a liberation. Sometimes, that's what mattered — we wanted to fast-forward to the end result, elegance be damned. But if you were one of those crafters? The people who wrote idiomatic code that made that programming language sing? There's a real grief here. It's not as serious as when we know a human language is dying out, but it's not entirely dissimilar, either.
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2026 Weeks 9, 10, & 11
Three weeks of weeknotes in one go. Wrote a blog post about AI grief that hit Hacker News (and got accused of being written by an LLM), fell deep into an Amiga 1200 rabbit hole, soldered the wrong potentiometer onto my Tempest PCB, survived a work trip to California, and spiraled into hardware-ownership doomsday thinking. [ ... 1897 words ... ]
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2026 March 11
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Grief and the AI Split
AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along. [ ... 1376 words ... ]