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The Generati

A post about students using generative AI in class

The Medici Method

Florence’s leading medieval family turned a banking career into political power and paradigm shifts in art and science. Their methods hold lessons for philanthropy today. The post The Medici Method...

NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 7 — Marginalia Poetry

DAY 7. Marginalia PoetryMarginalia are the notes, arrows, grumbles, doodles, and side-whispers readers leave in the edges of a text. In medieval manuscripts, scribes glossed, quibbled, even sketche...

Refactoring English: Month 11

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

The rewrite dilemma in software engineering

Rewriting software can be tempting, but understanding the hidden value of accumulated fixes and system stability is key to making the right decision.

NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 6 — Misheard Prayers

DAY 6. Misheard PrayersThe term mondegreen was coined by writer Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper’s essay. As a child, she misheard the ballad line:“They hae slain the Earl o’ Moray / And laid him on ...

Re: Chiseling: The Art of Polishing Vibe Code

Re: https://patrickerichsen.com/chiseling Hi Pat! Oh so thrilled to see you got your personal site up and running plus a freshly minted blog post. For the reader: I know Pat from when we both worke...

You Should Write An Agent

Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. T...

NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 5 — Inventory of What Remains

DAY 5. Inventory of What RemainsAn inventory poem catalogs, lists, and tallies. Unlike the bookish errata/corrigenda, this one lives in the material world, what’s left behind when someone leaves, w...

Zürich and Vaduz

I wasn’t quite sure if I should put this post on this blog or my personal one, but since it is about two people who have been important in my life as well as being involved in open source I figured...

How systemic inequities lead to internalised ableism

For a long time, whenever I was failed by a system in supporting my needs, I internalised it as proof that something was wrong with me. These weren’t isolated incidents but a pattern that reinforce...

Leverage Event Driven Ansible to reduce your automation reaction time

Running a Volleyball club with N8N

Running a community sports club can easily turn into a juggling act of emails, spreadsheets, and schedules. In this article, I share how we used n8n to transform the day-to-day operations of our LG...

A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025

Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’

The tiny office, the compact cassettes, and the speaker upgrades

Thanks to a vintage receiver that came with the cassette deck, which I got because I had to deal with my box of cassettes from my childhood days, I upgraded my office desk speakers.

NEW Civilization Simulator - GenTown - OUT NOW

Influence human society indirectly in this nation simulation game.

NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 4 — Duplex of Two Places

DAY 4. Duplex of Two PlacesA duplex is a braid of repetition. Each couplet borrows the previous line, shifts it a little, and carries on. Think: echo that returns changed. Today, let two geographie...

NixCon 2025

Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by events. The annual Nix conference was held at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (OST)...

The Grand Sun

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects?

Notes from 2 years of building with Cloudflare Durable Objects