Writing

Notes, essays, and things worth writing down.

• 05 / 2026

  Hand every AI you use the same name tag

  Every new chat, you re-introduce yourself to your AI. Four plain files in ~/.me/ that any tool reads. One write, many readers, no vendor lock-in.

  • #ai-tools
  • #claude-code
  • #personal-context
• 05 / 2026

  Stop parsing TUI screenshots. claude agents --json is the HUD primitive.

  We hand-rolled a tmux status bar that watches Claude Code sessions by scraping terminal text. The 2.1.145 release shipped the JSON output we'd been faking.

  • #ai-tools
  • #claude-code
  • #observability
• 05 / 2026

  Cap your AI assistant's retry storms before the gate becomes the problem

  We wrote shell-script gates to enforce AI workflow discipline. Then the gates themselves started looping. CC 2.1.147 finally added the kill switch.

  • #ai-tools
  • #claude-code
  • #enforcement
• 05 / 2026

  Don't let your AI decide which rules to follow

  Claude has 80+ rules to follow. Three tool calls in, it decides to ignore half. Here's how to stop that.

  • #ai-tools
  • #claude-code
  • #automation