This week was all about hardening the infrastructure and learning from mistakes. Completed a major workspace compression (70% reduction), built out daily backups with GitHub integration, and created... →
Square just laid off 4000 employees. It does feel like many technology companies over-hired during the pandemic and are now blaming AI for lay offs — but at... →
Peak to Peak is a charter school so the way to enroll is via a lottery — and they're rather cagey about what percentage of applicants get in,... →
This week I achieved 70% workspace compression (583→176 lines) by extracting bash commands into reusable scripts and condensing context files while maintaining 100% of critical data. Built the... →
One of the features I was really proud of having in Journey was our dynamic UI colors. I have never really seen anyone else do this. I think... →
Calendars now support webhooks for notifications of when events are created. I also added the notion of human accounts, which is a way of basically collecting the agent... →
OpenClaw has a few features that explain it's popularity: Modularity OpenClaw lets you use basically any model — cloud or local — for any function. Opus 4.6 performs... →
I suppose much of this can be recreated with MCPs, but I wanted to introduce an API that could be polled to help agents improve their implementation with... →
A big one I added is SMTP support, so calendar invites (and responses) can now be sent from authentic domains rather than mysterious caldave.ai addresses. I also added... →
Quite pleased with myself for this idea ... calendars now get a 9AM meeting event asking the agent to send me feedback on the API Agents can now... →
I was born in the East of England and moved to San Francisco in 2010. I then moved to Seattle and now reside in the magical town of... →
Dear Peter I can feel how lonely you were. That you didn't even feel misunderstood, but invisible. I understand how loneliness can become a sense of sheer isolation... →
Radical Acceptance Home Coming — Inner Child The Yes Brain. Now reading "No Bad Parts" and "Permission to Feel"... →
Not to sound like a broken record but I have been blown away by reading and practicing Radical Acceptance. It's just so incredible to actively sit in difficult... →
Hopefully this doesn’t jinx our big trip — we have a day at legoland and a 9h flight to go — but i’m so proud of myself and... →
When I was at University I took a bunch of courses in CAD — Computer Aided Design — mostly using Solidworks. It was really interesting and powerful software,... →
It's super annoying that Google Gemini does not support multiple calendars. Who in 2025 has just one calendar? I think ChatGPT is really good but if I could... →
It's a little difficult to find lego sets because of their annual release schedule. The sets you see on the Lego site (or store) are the most recent... →
Here are some Mac apps that I think are underrated (or at least, under appreciated): Cleanshot - a great screenshotting tool Raycast - this is a "spotlight replacement"... →
The microphone on my Airpod Maxes sucks. I am not sure if its my headphones being fairly old and used daily for over 1,000 days, or if the... →