Writing
Thoughts on technology, sovereignty, and the good life.
All essays
2026-02-21iTerm + tmux setup for Claude Code
2026-02-10Red Alert sounds for Codex
2026-02-10Red Alert sounds for Claude Code 2025-12-18Douglas Engelbart's vision (1962): augmenting human intellect
2025-12-18The cost of learning to program is no longer front-loaded
2025-12-11Etymology of sovereignty
2025-12-10There's a scene forming around Obsidian and local-first. What's it about?
2025-11-28Unix vs Unix-like vs POSIX
2025-11-25We don't charge for privacy
2025-11-21Unix was a child star with greedy parents
2025-11-20The world Unix made
2025-11-19Notion is simulated composability
2025-11-18Open-world vs closed-world composability
2025-11-17Disruptive vs sustaining innovations
2025-11-14Programmatic interfaces vs graphical user interfaces (GUIs)
2025-11-13AI is a universal GUI to programmatic tools
2025-11-12Software engineers prefer programmatic interfaces
2025-11-11What is a design provocation?
2025-11-10Unix files are computing's shipping containers
2025-11-07The Unix scene
2025-11-07Scene
2025-11-06The Unix philosophy
2025-11-05Monolithic vs composable
2025-11-04Local is faster
2025-11-03Local is constrained