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V - How the fourth lock is being sold

Reflections on the Human Condition

VI - The Signs in the Horizons

Reflections on the Human Condition IX - On the synthetic sovereign and the cage shaped like a throne
I - The Crowning

IV. Brave New World

What you are seeking is seeking you. This essay cannot tell you what that means. It can only clear some of the furniture that is in the way.

VI. The Agora and the Feed

Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species

The Pseudo-Religions and What They Are Actually Reaching For

In Arabic they rhyme — sharaf or alaff - The realities they name could not be further apart.

The Global South as the Last Unenclosed Ground

Reflections on the human condition. The 600-year project of enclosing what was common — and the philosophy hired to make it look inevitable

The better LLMs get, the less you should over-scaffold them with agents — and the more you need to verify them. They're now good enough to pull a confident, happy-path "✅ it works" straight out of thin air (made to fit, rarely true), so lightweight security + diff-review matter m…

Most AI assistants are brilliant for five minutes — then forget everything the moment you close the chat.

nthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution,” Claude being the name of the large language model that is the company’s flagsh…

Two tiny tools that replaced our error-monitoring stack with a text file.

privcloud — turn a 120€ mini PC into your Google Photos / iCloud / Spotify replacement, from one command menu

Every other login wants more of you: your password, your phone number, a profile, a backup email. We went the other way.

Vanilla JS. Embed it, don't run it. No daemon, no SaaS, no telemetry — it runs on your hardware.

wearehere — see who's tracking you online, and make it harder for them 🛡

At first glance, the feed looks familiar, a seamless carousel of “For You” updates gliding beneath your thumb. But déjà‑vu sets in as 10 posts from 10 different accounts carry the same stock portrait and the same breathless promise — “click here for free pics” or “here is the one…

Auto scope your cookies to expire in 7 days with wearehere extension v4

Language is not Thought. Language is an expression of a thought and you don't need language to think. AI is a siloed language model that is incapable of self-learning and enhancing it's own model if it doesn't have the architecture and the memory. It's an architectural problem th…

Models of Language Are Not Models of Thought: Why Current AI Agents Can't Learn

AURORA: Memory-First Planning & Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework

MCPs are becoming the go-to way to give AI agents real capabilities. But with great power comes... the need for some guardrails.

llama.cpp is one of those projects that makes you appreciate open source — a dependency-free framework for running quantized SLMs locally on your laptop.

New in liteagents: Hot Memory for AI coding tools

I built an agent framework and was too scared to use it myself.

I built a mobile automation library for AI agents and assumed Appium already solved this.

I built barebrowse — an open-source MCP server that gives AI agents a real browser.

They index you. We indexed them back.

I kept running into the same frustrating problem.

I run my own cloud. Here's what it costs.

The internet was built for humans. Every pixel, every scroll animation, every cookie banner you rage-click through — designed for eyeballs. For attention. For you to linger, convert, subscribe.

Reflections on the Human Condition IX - On the synthetic sovereign and the cage shaped like a throne
I - The Crowning

Reflections on the Human Condition — The Center - On the circle of existence, the centrifugal civilization, and what was always at the center of everything

Sharing a specific location in 2026 is still awkward.

Just shipped knowless — a different answer to "how do you log people in."

Shipping bareguard — 4th piece of the bare suite. Live on npm.

What you are seeking is seeking you. This essay cannot tell you what that means. It can only clear some of the furniture that is in the way.

The Digital Receipts of Having Existed

Nine women cannot make a baby in one month.

Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species

In Arabic they rhyme — sharaf or alaff - The realities they name could not be further apart.

Reflections on the human condition. The 600-year project of enclosing what was common — and the philosophy hired to make it look inevitable

I bought an Interrail pass, then realised I needed three more apps to actually catch the trains. So I built one tool that fixes the gap.

I wanted my AI agents to respond to customers on whatever channel they came from — WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, Telegram, Instagram, Messenger, whatever — with one unified chat history across all of it.