• A Brief History of the Second Brain

  The phrase “second brain” is glued to Tiago Forte and the productivity wave of the 2010s. But the ambition behind it is nearly five centuries old, and the method is a lot older than the name. So let’s walk the timeline, because the story is …

• Six Months with Git-Native Issue Tracking: Am I Still Using Beads?

  Back in January, I wrote about discovering beads, a git-native issue tracker built specifically for AI-assisted development. I was pretty hyped. Having agents track their own tasks natively inside the git repo felt like the missing link for …

• How Do You Actually Review Code an Agent Wrote?

  We’ve all had the magic moment by now. You fire up an agent in Claude Code, hand it a bunch of tasks, then let it do its thing. It feels like the future. Right up until you have to hit git commit. That’s when the magic curdles into a very …

• How I Researched the Time Series With My Second Brain

  Writing ~30 daily, deeply technical posts about the history, physics, and software guts of “time” was not something I could sit down and free-type into a CMS every morning. To keep the whole thing cohesive, connecting the 1967 cesium-second …

• The Agentic Dev Space Is Moving Fast, and I'm Having a Blast

  Step back and look at the last six months of software development. It’s almost hard to believe how much has shifted. Back in January we were doing “vibe coding” with basic autocomplete. By June we’re handing fully autonomous agents a …

• SvelteKit vs Astro: How I Choose in 2026

  If you’ve followed my blog over the past few months, you know I’ve spent a lot of time digging into Svelte 5. Runes completely changed the way I think about reactivity, and SvelteKit is still one of the most elegant frameworks I’ve used for …

• Why Supacode Became My Daily Driver for Claude Code

  The number of ways to get an AI to write your code right now is … great? Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, and all the others. I think that’s a good thing. The easier we make it to hand real work to a capable coding agent, the better off we all …

• Day 29: It's All The Same Problem

  We’re twenty-nine days into this. I’ve thrown twenty-eight different time problems at you. Sundials, cesium fountains, leap seconds, Unix epochs, DST, lunar time, the Y2038 bug, calendar drift, time zones in Nepal. Twenty-eight posts. …

• Day 28: What an Interplanetary Civilization Needs From a Clock

  A couple of weeks ago, on Day 12, I took the tour. A Mars day is 39 minutes too long. The Moon’s clocks run about 58 microseconds a day fast. A round trip to Voyager takes two days. Astronomers already juggle a whole family of relativistic …

• Day 27: People Have Tried This Before

  Yesterday I dug into the astronomical anchor problem: whether civil time should stay tied to the sun, and the complications that come with loosening that tie. Redesigning civil time at scale is extremely complex, and I don’t pretend to have …