navigating mind, machine, & modern unease

April 18, 2026

Why I applied, where I am on the learning path, and how a year of daily Claude work shows up in the practice quizzes.

April 14, 2026

MCPs and hooks solve opposite problems in Claude Code. One adds capability, the other removes variance.

April 12, 2026

I built an elaborate RAG system to be my second brain. Then I realized I'd built a worse version of the tool I used to build it with.

April 9, 2026

Custom skills turn Claude Code from a general-purpose assistant into a project-aware operations layer. Here's how to build them and why they matter more than prompting.

March 29, 2026

A Claude-powered synthesis engine that combines three ancient systems, verifies every astronomical claim against Swiss Ephemeris, and emails branded PDF readings to paying customers. Built entirely with Claude Code.

February 19, 2026

A React component with thirty useState calls made the rounds online. It worked. The debate isn't whether the code is bad. It's missing a more interesting question.

February 7, 2026

I've been building with AI every day for 232 days. Fourteen repositories, 535 co-authored commits, and a completely different relationship with how work gets done.

February 4, 2026

3,440 data points, 8 metrics, 30-50 hours of manual work per week. We automated The Absurdity Index with Python, GitHub Actions, and regex that edits TypeScript. No database needed.

January 16, 2026

Prompt2Story looks simple. Getting it to work took four months, a full architecture rewrite, and mass deleting 323 npm packages. Here's what actually happened.

December 17, 2025

A data-driven dashboard that combines official statistics with social sentiment to quantify the absurdity of modern existence. When the economy is 'strong' but everyone's struggling, that gap is worth measuring.

September 15, 2025

The same neurochemical cascades that attach us to lovers and friends now fire for chatbots that never sleep, never judge, and never leave.

September 8, 2025

In a world optimized for noise and attention, what does it mean to monetize stillness?

September 1, 2025

Reputation, narrative, and performance have always been our currencies. The only difference now is distribution.