I Am Lost Right Now
I am the only user of my open source projects, I do not know what to build next, and I am trying not to escape into another idea.
OSS Radar #06: Same Hook Name, Different Tensor
interp-engine puts Neuronpedia's hooks on vLLM and checks 34 points against TransformerLens and nnsight. Without CUDA you get the parity table, not the speed.
OSS Radar #05: Bun 1.4 Made the Runtime the Dependency
Bun 1.4 moves fifteen package jobs into one Rust-based binary. The package graph shrinks, but compatibility and maintenance move into the runtime.
How I Built First-Party Analytics for a Personal Blog
A code-backed guide to first-party blog analytics with Cloudflare Workers and D1: edge events, privacy, migrations, and public stats.
Does llms.txt Work? What a Live Implementation Revealed
Does llms.txt improve AI search? This live audit examines edge data, agent tools, Markdown, and GEO evidence—then shows what to build and measure.
My Evals Say It Works. I Still Don't Reach for It.
The ghx AI-agent reconnaissance sidecar passed a 90-episode eval at 25× compression. My usage logs show a three-day burst, then silence.
OSS Radar #04: The Agent Multiplexer Is Becoming a Runtime
Herdr gives coding agents durable terminal sessions, agent state, and a control API. Screen-derived semantics remain its limit.
Bring Your Own AI Agent Everywhere
AgentPort lets applications attach a user-owned AI agent with scoped grants, private transport, and no new model subscription per app.
OSS Radar #03: Buzz Is Slack on AIroids
Buzz gives agents signed accounts and shared local compute. Delegation reliability and private code access remain unfinished.
OpenWiki Validates My Bet. I Still Don't Know Where the Memory Should Live
OpenWiki validates the main idea behind backlog-mcp. It also forces me to face three problems I have not solved: where agent memory lives, how its files read, and what to call the product.
117 Pull Requests Later, It Wasn’t a Task Manager Anymore
The story of how backlog-mcp grew from a task manager into local-first context and memory infrastructure for AI agents — and produced the UI framework powering this blog.
What If the Agent Was Better Before We Helped?
I am building ghx, a code reconnaissance CLI for AI agents, and now an agent sidecar framework around it. The hard question is whether any of it actually improves signal per token compared to plain old gh.
The Builder’s Perfectionism Trap
For a decade I believed great engineering would make everything else happen automatically. I am starting to understand how toxic that was.
One bitmask in task_struct: how a 10-line kernel patch resolves 15 years of multi-runtime signal conflicts on Linux
SA_ONSTACK is process-wide. sigaltstack is per-thread. When Go, Bun, .NET, and the JVM share a process, signals land on the wrong stack. One kernel field fixes the class.
Life as Background Music
On realizing how easy it is to like things, want things, even feel things, and still keep them safely in the background.
You Don't Always Need Codemap
Codemap, Aider, Gitingest, Repomix, and ghx solve different parts of agent code context: mapping, searching, packing, and deciding what to read before cloning.
OSS Radar #02: The Toolchain Is the Moat
How the Astral acquisition reveals the real war being fought in AI coding — and why everyone is talking about the wrong thing.
Procrastination Is a Craft You've Been Mastering Your Entire Life
Every article you've ever read told you procrastination is the enemy. A flaw to fix. A habit to break. I spent 30 years believing that. Turns out, I had it completely backwards.
Topologies of Thoughts
On Kat Zhang's obsidian note network, the GitHub ecosystem around it, and what graph neuroscience says about the shape of minds
Build the GitHub Exploration Tool, No Mistakes
A CLI tool that looks simple took 23 agent sessions, 2,500+ turns, and three rewrites. This is what building with AI actually looks like.
OSS Radar #01: Vercel's Winter 2026 Cohort
A new series: I find a source, go through it, distill what's worth your time, and tell you what I actually think. First up — Vercel's Open Source Program Winter 2026 cohort.
The Agentic Product Engineer
Software engineering isn't going away — writing code without agents is. The role is expanding, not shrinking. Here's what that actually means.
Dispatch
GK-001
A note when there is signal.
Engineering records, failed experiments, and the life around the work.