Notes from the workshop.
Build logs, release notes, and the thinking behind small self-hostable tools, with the products they are about.
The family photo: eleven now, and three of them aren't -ing
The family grew to eleven this week. The three new names are Korean, not -ing, and that split turned out to mean something. Also, we finally took a family photo.
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All postsThe blunt read: senior taste, junior hands, unusual speed
We ran the experiment again with a different model and asked it to be a hiring manager, not a fan. It was. Part two of a short series where we hand the whole studio to an AI, cold, and publish whatever it says back, kind or not.
We had an AI read the whole studio. It found the rule.
We pointed an outside model at the site and the GitHub next to it, with no explanation, and asked it to work out who made this and why. It didn't lead with the tech stack. It found the one sentence every tool is built on.
Shipping Working: nothing exists until you accept it
The fifth tool is a macOS app for planning a program end to end. Its hardest rule is not a feature you can toggle. The database itself refuses to create a file the human never accepted.
Drafting v1.6: terminal mode, and why npx fixes the subscription problem
The desktop app couldn't reach your Claude login in the keychain. Running the same server from your terminal just works.
Running a fleet of coding agents on your own machines
Parallel git worktrees, a live board, and merging the winner. A cockpit for agents, with no cloud in the loop.
Measure the slide, don't trust the AI
The model writes layout code; a render scan checks cropping, overlap and typesetting before you ever open the deck.
The -ing family: software in the present tense
Why the tools are named the way they are, and the one rule that ties every one of them together.
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