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- Cheaper Code Should Mean More Experiments When working with agentic tools, the instinct to solve hard problems inside your main project is usually wrong. Isolate the core problem first, experiment freely, then bring what works back.
- Mountain to Climb A tool for visualising how long economic catch-up growth actually takes between any two countries or regions
- Software Architecture That Agents Actually Like Structural patterns that make codebases easier for AI agents to navigate: composition over monoliths, stateless mini-CLIs, typed languages, and the editor navigation test.
- Using Agentic AI Tools for Anki Flashcard Creation How Claude Code and similar tools can handle the tedious work of expanding concepts into multiple flashcards, and why Anki Connect is the key to making it work.
- Freeport: A Lightweight Port Management Tool for Development A thin wrapper around native commands to simplify port checking and process management during local development.
- Exploring the Primitives of an Agentic Coding Setup Reflecting on the foundational layers of agentic systems, from Git workflows and networking to storage and sandboxing, rather than high-level orchestration.
- Notes on Robotics and Untapped Real World Potential Exploring the adjacent possible in robotics, where falling hardware costs and advanced software create new opportunities for high-quality automation in niche domains like local sports broadcasting.
- Notes on LLM Clock Face Limitations LLMs struggle to generalise clock face generation beyond the standard 12 divisions, highlighting a specific gap in reasoning versus training data memorisation.
- The Different Problems of Searching Global and Local Context Exploring why global-context search is easier than local-context search, and what tools built with local context in mind might look like
- Thoughts on Context and Conversation for Ideas Exploring how conversation and exploratory browsing create a 'mental latent space' where ideas emerge from unexpected connections
- The AI Tool That I Wish Existed Envisioning an AI-first productivity tool that anticipates, connects, and surfaces ideas rather than requiring explicit organisation
- Why Can't I Talk to My Tools, and Why Don't They Know What to Do? On the friction of retrieving information during conversations and the potential of contextual AI assistance
- Thoughts on Conceptual Learning, Anki, Books & Physicality Exploring why spaced repetition works for languages but fails for abstract, ladder-like concepts, and where solutions might lie