Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Robots.txt is not access control. Choose the control that matches the outcome you need.
Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Replayable traces for AI agents. Evaluate the execution and its effects, not just the final answer.
Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing The crawl frontier is a state machine. Make every URL admission, fetch, retry, and omission explainable.
Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Audit findings are derived records. Keep the evidence and reasoning behind each audit claim recoverable.
Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing SQLite for crawl pipelines. Serialize writes without losing attempts, evidence, or recovery paths.
Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Canonicalization is a graph problem. Find the contradictions that a canonical-tag checklist misses.
Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Internal links are a retrieval graph. Measure the paths to useful pages, not just the links pointing at them.
Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Raw HTML and rendered DOM are separate evidence. Separate what the server delivered from what the browser built.
Jul 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Structured data without content drift. Keep the page and its machine-readable claims on the same record.
Jul 14, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing The Shopkeeper in the Machine What AI-operated shops, cafés, and radio stations reveal about pricing, memory, and the human work that keeps a business running.
Jul 11, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing The state owns the pavement. Who owns the cash flow? Who collects the tolls, who controls the debt, and who bears the loss when a Texas road changes hands.
Jul 10, 2026 from The Autodidacts People and Clothes Some people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful. It’s as if the clothes are sentient, and cloth and wearer are locked in a lifelong battle fo...
Jun 29, 2026 from The Autodidacts Autodidacts Newsletter #26 Twenty-four new posts to hitch your mind to
Jun 19, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing AI crawlers: search, training, and access. Choose crawler access by purpose, then test the policy you actually deployed.
Jun 13, 2026 from The Autodidacts How to fit Qwen 3.6 35B A3B into 16GB of VRAM, & run it with Llama.cpp on an RTX 3080 The belly hangs over the belt, but it fits
Jun 09, 2026 from The Autodidacts The search for a good offline dictionary for Linux … proved longer than expected
Jun 01, 2026 from The Autodidacts Bookmarklet: Copy Ghost Post ID to Clipboard Save several milliseconds with two lines of JavaScript
