journal
posts land when they're earned — at least once every three weeks. about things i've actually shipped or actually believe in. not a content treadmill.
the hard part of reverse-engineering a keyboard's rgb protocol wasn't the disassembly. it was refusing to call a packet 'working' until a human watched the leds change. 'verified' and 'traced' are different words.
we dropped the human-review gate for agent pull requests. the rule is one commit. the trigger is the part nobody writes down — we discovered ours twice the next day: once because it was a person, once because it finally wasn't.
signal-house is the dashboard you check to see how the barkley agent is doing. it currently runs on three toolchains where bun does the same work in one. we picked bun.
every major ff8 design decision was a constraint, a provocation, or salvage from ff7's reject pile. kitase, ito, nomura, nojima. ff8 is the evidence. the principle is the point.
the agent loop will change. the boring parts of your agent system should be the parts that outlast it. a daemon owns the polling, queue, worktrees, and github; the worker just writes files and exits.
i stopped using assertion libraries after writing nine rust crates. five used a library, four didn't, and the four without were better.