Writing about software, startups, and building with AI agents.

Long-running coding agents need a computer that stays put so their work can continue when your laptop closes, disconnects, or dies.

The runway spreadsheet prices every hire in months of burn and books the missing team at zero: a Contour retrospective on where staying lean paid, what contractors can't replace, and which number turns out wrong.

If the Mac still receives iMessages and the iPhone sends normally, restart imagent and identityservicesd before signing out or resetting the account.

Referral sites earn at the phone number, so they can't afford to show you prices. Contour Care charged facilities only on a successful move-in, and that pricing is what paid for the honesty.

Waiting until my personal site was “good enough” meant I never built one. A template I made for a mentee is why I’d now tell you to ship the plain version first.

Behavior rules, reciprocal Claude-and-Codex review loops, a generate-and-cut method, and a rubric for good UI: five short files with one-click copy, so you can skip the token tax of gstack.

Startup current is the wrong target; compare heat leaking in while you are away with the time and energy to cool back down.

MCP calls make the model recite the whole payload token by token. A small CLI lets code move it, so it never enters context in the first place. Fewer tokens, less time.

Native structured output refused my 34-field schema, so I benchmarked seven cheaper models on plain JSON instead; Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite matched Claude Haiku's quality at an eighth of the cost.

Retrofitting CI, linting, Prettier, and regression tests into a mature codebase makes AI coding useful by catching broken changes before reviewers do.

Google’s default Places widget breaks out of your existing mobile UI, so a custom autocomplete keeps the form flow intact while Google still supplies the place data.

How to fix a macOS GUI app that cannot find codex even though Terminal can: inspect the live PATH and fix launchd, not the shell.

Custom DNS can make a captive portal look broken by skipping the network’s resolver, so restoring automatic DNS brings the login page back.