Writing

Methodology I pointed Claude — Anthropic’s AI — at this blog’s 1,713 posts spanning 22 years and asked a simple question: What can you infer about me from reading these entries? It dispatched four research agents in parallel, each sampling a different slice of the archive: the early years (2004–2008), the middle years (2011–2016), the recent years (2017–2026), and a separate pass through movie reviews and milestone posts. Each agent read 15–20 posts from its assigned era, then reported back. What follows is the synthesized portrait — unedited, exactly as the AI wrote it. ...

I’m starting to get this blog into shape again. The transition to hugo was never fully complete, and I didn’t fully get the publishing workflow setup. The Blogger-to-jekyll script did scrape the comments into their own posts, but they didn’t actually get segregated and so many of my posts with comments just became the comments posts. I still don’t fully have the hang of the << ref >> syntax, but I’m getting there. Zed has been a joy thus far. I’m fully off of VS Code and I don’t see compelling reasons to go back as it has MCP integrations of its own. ...