Patchwork
A ritual from when my kids were small: flip the menu over, draw a grid, fill squares with crayons while waiting for food. I wanted to turn that into an app. Here's what I built instead.…
Your Agent's Tools Are Dead Data
Today's AI agents can call tools, but ... they cannot evolve them. The bottleneck isn't reasoning or context length. It's representational: actions, traces, and plans live in incompatible formats that prevent agents from inspecting or composing their own capabilities…
On fading out and reviving
Real banger of a quote, by Winston Churchill…
Newly inked pens
💡The Lamy Safari on the right has been with me since 2012 (and writes just as well today)…
Watercolor pen in Midori MD
Looks nicer from behind the page!…
Smelter 0.2: Common Lisp Scripts That Just Work
Wanted to share Smelter, a self-contained binary for running Lisp scripts without the usual setup overhead. It started as a Coalton runner, but 0.2 adds native Common Lisp mode. Generally meant to solve "just running CL" (i.e. without SBCL images, or configuring Quicklisp).…
CurioPod: Open-Sourcing an AI tutor/partner for kids
I built my daughter an AI tutor that runs on our own infrastructure, uses our own API key, and stores every conversation in a database I control. Open-sourcing it today.…
Happy New Year
Worth re-posting from James Clear's newsletter, since it's the only real way to to change: I. "New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process,…
Coalton via Haskell: Pattern Matching
Pattern matching isn't just syntax sugar ... it's the compiler asking "have you thought about this?" Learn how Coalton's match expression ensures you handle every case, with no silent nil or missing branches.…
Field Entities, Not Craft
(a different frame for UAPs) I was watching The Age of Disclosure the other night and got stuck at the point where they break down the "five observables": instant acceleration, no sonic boo…
Coalton via Haskell: Lists and Recursion
(being an exploration of structural computation) The Premise I've been thinking about how we learn to process collections. In most languages, we reach for loops first – for, while, the familiar…
Coalton via Haskell: Functions
Pure functions are the foundation of everything in Coalton. They're predictable, composable, and safe by default. The type signatures aren't red tape: they're guardrails that let you move fast without breaking things.…