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A place for scribbles and notes — mostly so I can revisit things I find interesting, instead of leaving them to rot in my phone's notes app. If something here is useful to you too, that's a bonus.

Recent posts

May 2026

The agent is not the harness

Two words that appear constantly in AI writing and almost never get explained. Here is what they actually mean and why the difference matters.

May 2026

Alfred lives in Helsinki now

I put an AI on a server in Helsinki. It texts me good morning. Here is what it took to get there, and why it feels different from every other AI tool I have used.

May 2026

Running AI on your own laptop is real now, but your laptop will remind you of its limits

Downloaded LM Studio today, tried a Google Gemma model, and immediately started wanting a bigger Mac.

May 2026

Two copies of the same folder, because AI tools can't agree on where to put things

Claude uses .claude/. Other agents use .agents/. Nobody agreed on this. Here's how to stop duplicating files.

April 2026

Your agent doesn't know what good looks like

Skills are portable instruction sets for AI coding agents. Here is why that matters, and one skill that actually gets design right.

March 2026

Multiple git branches

Git lets you have multiple branches checked out at the same time. Here is how that works and when it's useful.

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