Posts
All the articles I've posted.
Four and a Half Months with rtk
storyI added rtk to make my Claude sessions last and kept it for months unmeasured. Using it is what told me to take it out.
Off the Desk
storyGitHub dropped my one model from Copilot. I went to Claude, and the work came off the desk onto my phone.
How to Back Up Google Takeout to TrueNAS
how-toKeep a local copy of your Google data: one TrueNAS Cloud Sync task and a short script that unpacks and prunes each Takeout export.
How Hard Is This to Undo
storyA rule I gave a coding agent, to keep it off the moves I couldn't undo, turned out to be one question—how hard is this to undo—sizing every decision I make.
How I'd Recover a Box I Can't Reach
practiceThe data was never the hard part. Recovering a Linux box I run from another continent is a plan I've never dared to run, and the risk lives in one configuration file.
Under the Instruments
storyI merged sixty-odd agent-written pull requests in a week, and it barely felt like work. The checks I built watch the code. Nothing watches me.
Who accounts for the agent?
storyAn agent can do the work, and even build the guardrails that check it. Accountability is the harder question, and I'm not sure it can ever belong to the tool itself.
The Bottleneck Isn't the Blank Page
storyThe hard part of keeping a blog was never the writing. It was remembering what the week held and seeing which of it was worth telling.
I Built the Machine Twice
storyI archived this blog and meant it. What reopened it wasn't a better tool—it was agentic coding leaving me more to share than I could keep to myself.
How I Back Up
practiceHow a TrueNAS, a Home Assistant box, and a Chromebook back themselves up—delegated to Cloud Sync, Nabu Casa, and a Google account.