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Two Kinds of "Should We Add This Tool"

6 October 2026

Two Kinds of "Should We Add This Tool"

A status widget needed one number from a monitoring stack, and for a moment that looked like a reason to stand up Prometheus and Grafana. It wasn't — and the difference is a question worth asking every time.

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An RSS Feed Nobody Could Find

27 August 2026

An RSS Feed Nobody Could Find

The feed had existed since the blog's first version. What was missing wasn't the feature — it was a single link tag, and the habit of checking before building.

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Using an AI Pair Programmer as a Design Partner, Not Just an Implementer

18 August 2026

Using an AI Pair Programmer as a Design Partner, Not Just an Implementer

The most useful sessions were not the ones spent writing code. They were structured interviews that talked a vague feature idea into a decision — or into the trash.

aiprocess
Commit Conventions That Scale Down to a Team of One

14 August 2026

Commit Conventions That Scale Down to a Team of One

[Type] Brief description, no commit body, no Co-Authored-By. A format that looks like it is for other people's benefit turns out to help the one person reading it back.

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SPEC.md as the Source of Truth on a One-Person Project

17 July 2026

SPEC.md as the Source of Truth on a One-Person Project

A living spec file with a dated changelog of decisions replaces the alignment meeting when the whole team is one person plus an AI agent.

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I Killed an AI Feature Before Writing a Line of Code

14 July 2026

I Killed an AI Feature Before Writing a Line of Code

A "video digest with AI" idea, reframed twice under a structured interview, collapsed into "this is just a Post with extra steps." Here is how the interview got there.

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