2026

• Ask Claude What Your Agent Actually Did Aug 5, 2026

  gitreceipts reconciles what your coding agent claimed against what git actually recorded, including the week it found five of its own bugs.

• Meet Bob… ClipBob! Jul 21, 2026

  Your clipboard history across all your Macs — secure, private, free. Why I built it, and how it works.

• Rustic Playground v0.4 — Bring Your Own Toolchain Jul 12, 2026

  Switch between stable, beta, nightly, or a specific pinned Rust version — per project, without leaving the app.

• When the tool should refuse to help Jul 12, 2026

  Why Rustic Playground v0.4 won't silently install a missing pinned toolchain — and what the yellow pill is really for.

• I Shall Not Live in Vain Jun 21, 2026

  A note for my father, on Father's Day — what he gave me, and the Emily Dickinson poem I found in his notes today.

• Claude and a two-week architecture detour May 18, 2026

  Two weeks building with Claude on a macOS + CloudKit app, then watching it fail on the second device. The rework, and why I'd take the same approach again.

• Distro Hopping Diaries: The Workstation May 3, 2026

  Part three of three — turning a dual-NVIDIA Ubuntu 26.04 rig into a real AI/ML workstation. Docker on btrfs, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, CUDA in a container, PyTorch on MNIST, and Gemma 4 serving at 154 tokens/sec.

• Distro Hopping Diaries: The Install Apr 27, 2026

  Part two — the actual Ubuntu 26.04 install on a dual-NVIDIA rig: btrfs `@`/`@home` subvolumes, Timeshift, zram, and the TPM-backed encryption detour that didn't pan out.

• Distro Hopping Diaries: Why I'm Trading Pop!_OS Cosmic for Resolute Raccoon Apr 23, 2026

  Why I'm leaving Pop!_OS for Ubuntu 26.04 — and what GNOME 50, Dracut, NVIDIA-on-Wayland, and Rust at the core bring to the table.

• Why I built Rustic Playground Apr 15, 2026

  A Swift-Playgrounds-inspired sandbox for learning Rust on macOS — and what I learned building it with an AI agent.