7 March 2026

23 links · Saturday

What Requests Taught Me About Marriage

I have spent fifteen years thinking about how humans interact with systems. It started with HTTP libraries and somehow ended up at consciousness research,...

Your Docs Directory Is Doomed

Maybe you started with a modest CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, which you meaningfully crafted over time. Then you adding some core docs (which was best practice anyway), like ARCHITECTURE.md. Before you knew it, you were writing massive specs and generating full-blow…

Close Enough to See

From the dot-com bubble to mortgage fraud to Nord Stream to a livestreamed genocide, I've spent my life inside the systems that exploit people — across continents. This is what it looks like when the pattern finally clicks.

Remembering mayhem – MetaBrainz Blog

Rob Kaye (also known to the community and his peers as ruaok and mayhem) was many things. Friend, partner, colleague, ‘that guy with the crazy hair’, hacker, burner, visionary and much more. And always a source of creative mayhem!

The Start-Stop Problem

In the typical world, in which a wide range of dopamine pumping entertainment is available on your fingertip and the temptation is to scroll for instant gratification, if you're going to get yourself to do something meaningful, then you have to offer an experi…

The Next Coding Interface is a Canvas

IDE → Terminal → Canvas I've been experimenting this week with AI-native Figma alternatives like pencil.dev and paper.design. You describe the product, and t...

Async Programming Is Just @Inject Time — Will Richardson

All I really wanted to do was learn a little bit more about different models for error handling, but then I kept seeing “effects” and “effect systems” mentioned, and after reading about Koka and Effekt I think I’ve been converted. I want effects now. So here’s…