absurdum reductus
- Valid YAML, Three Commands: The Folded Block That Reads Right and Runs Wrong
A deploy step that every reader and every parser agreed was one command reached the shell as three. What a YAML folded block actually folds, why no cheap check could see it, and the two guards we kept afterwards.
- Recursive Self-Development as a Lifestyle Choice
What it took to mint one LDAP service account by hand, what it took to automate that, and what it is taking to automate the things we built to automate it. The toll of a self-hosted software factory.
- Trailblazes: One-Line Marks That Give Coding Agents a Memory
How a trail-craft practice from the age of axes solves a very modern problem -- AI agents that re-derive the same hard-won knowledge in codebases too large for any context window.