Every morning at 08:00 a message arrives in my Discord. Today’s weather, today’s calendar, and what moved in my Obsidian vault yesterday. I didn’t open a single app to get it. I’m not a developer, and I built the thing that sends it. It has run every day for more than three months. Today I’m…
I shipped a browser extension and used it every day for a month. Then I asked one person to try it. They hit three problems in about an hour. I’d hit none of them in thirty days. What got me wasn’t the count. It was that all three were the same problem wearing different clothes….
I built a loop that puts up a personal homepage on its own. It’s a static site, résumé-shaped, and I cut the work into units. Every unit spawns a fresh cloud agent. That agent plans, and it doesn’t write the code itself. It hands the code off to a local model on a remote machine….
My development rules contain one line: Code generation goes to the local model. The cloud model plans and reviews. On 26 June 2026 I added two words to it: no exceptions. That phrase survived five days. On 1 July I conceded the first exception and rewrote the line myself. The rule itself came out of…
A cloud model wrote 1,900 lines in one session and burned my five-hour limit — then the next session remembered none of it. Three layers of context files plus hooks, and what each one is actually for.