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Life updates and whatever else is on my mind.

2026-08-06
writing

Making a music video 15 seconds at a time

I pointed the new video models at a 6:36 song to see what they can actually do, then cut the results in an NLE I had never opened.

2026-08-06
writing

palimpsest: finding the dependencies your refactors hid

A Rust CLI that reads your entire git history and finds the files that still move together after the import between them died.

2026-08-06
writing

Weekly update, August 6

A music video storyboarded for an AI to shoot, character synopses for the novel, and two tools I did not plan to build.

2026-07-23
writing

How I taught my agents to write like me

An agent read half a million words of my own writing and told me what my habits actually are. Some of it I was wrong about.

2026-07-20
writing

Building Authorbot

How a book experiment became a hosted and offline Git-backed authoring system, and what the full build cost in model usage.

2026-07-19
writing

The Causal Projector is live

I published the first 12 chapters through Authorbot, then unpublished all of them. The book is restarting from Snowflake planning, in public.

2026-07-19
writing

Weekend update, July 19

I rebuilt the music studio, taught two 3090s to share, glued the creature, and accidentally started a publishing system.

2026-07-16
writing

Projects, projects, projects

Two 3090s, a PVC creature in my dining room, a local music lab, three coding agents, and one accidental network outage.

2026-07-10
writing

The most impressive conversation I've had with a non-human

ChatGPT took a pile of unrelated obsessions and came back with a hard-SF plot I'd read the absolute shit out of.

2026-07-09
writing

Three coding agents, one workspace

Opus built the base and Codex rearranged it. What kept three agents from eating one another was the repository itself.

2026-07-08
writing

How I work with AI tools

The idea comes out as a wall of text, becomes files, and gets split across narrow agent jobs. Responsibility stays with me.

2026-07-05
writing

Hunting 9.1 BTC with a piece of paper, two Rust programs, and an RTX 3090

A friend inherited 24 handwritten words and a dead hardware wallet. Ten of the words are not in the BIP39 dictionary, and the margin says email.