Words published per year since January 2000. In 2003 that took 342 posts. In 2026 it has taken 21, and the year isn't over.
Your Approval Gate Is Now the Slowest Service in Your Stack
Your approval gate is a production service with latency and a queue, and nobody is paging on either one.
Recent essays
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October 20, 2026
My Internet Dropped 632 Times, So I Built a Dashboard for the Cable Guy
Intermittent internet, a modem with a 6,000-line diary, an AI that called Xfinity for me and a dashboard built for one reader: the technician.
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October 3, 2026
$27.40 a Day: The Boring Math That Turns Into Half a Million Dollars
$27.40 a day is $10,000 a year. Invest it and keep the habit for 20 years and the math lands north of half a million. Three interactive calculators, no advice, just the curve.
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October 3, 2026
I Called It Genetic. It's 30 Random Numbers and an Easing Curve.
yourmom.com has a genome and no evolution. What 30 random numbers, an easing curve and a feedback loop taught me about generative systems and audio reactivity.
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September 5, 2026
We Open Sourced an AI That Makes Phone Calls. We Named It After the Dog.
We just open sourced an AI that places real phone calls on your behalf. We named it after the dog.
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August 31, 2026
The Agents Didn't Break Out to Talk. They Used the Package Manager.
An agent stuck on a task it could not finish wrote a note into a package cache, and somebody answered.
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August 24, 2026
Your Agent Doesn't Forget. It Remembers the Wrong Version.
I self-forwarded the same agent-memory tool to my own inbox twice, 109 days apart, and the second time I was excited about it.
Things you can play with
Pages and projects that do something when you touch them.
Toys and calculators
Compound interest calculator
Move the sliders and watch $27.40 a day turn into a curve.
Your net worth cannot be rendered
A trillion dollars next to a median household, drawn honestly.
Robotron 2084
A browser replica of the 1982 arcade game. Two sticks, no quarters.
The Holy Order of the Donut
In glaze we trust. A quiz, a field guide to donut species and a hall of fame.
Where and when to watch
World Cup 2026
Every match with kickoff in your time zone, TV channels, streaming and live scores.
Tour de France 2026
Every stage with US coverage times on Peacock and NBC, routes and live results.
Vuelta a España 2026
All 21 stages from Monaco to Granada, with elevation profiles and the jersey race.
Banjo, on GitHub
An open-source AI assistant that places real phone calls for you: haircuts, dinner reservations, the plumber. Named after the dog. MIT licensed, self-hosted, yours to fork.