February 18, 2026 Every morning a few thousand people wake up and ship something. A tool, a SaaS, a newsletter, an app that does the thing the other app does but slightly differently. They post it on Hacker News. Nobody clicks. This is not new. What's new is the scale. An AI can wake up (or whatever…

You Are Here Where to next? The cost of turning written business logic into code has dropped to zero. Or, at best, near-zero. The cost of integrating services and libraries, the plumbing of the code world, has dropped to zero. Or, at best, near-zero. The cost of building efficient, reliable, secure,…

Recently I saw another discussion of how some people are very attached to the original, classical vi and its behaviors (cf). I'm quite sympathetic to this view, since I too am very attached to the idiosyncratic behavior of various programs I've gotten used to (such as xterm's very specific behavior…

Below is a clean, structured rewrite suitable for a blog post. I’ve preserved your intent, simplified the narrative, and tightened the logic so it reads as practical guidance rather than a personal rant, while still grounding it in real experience. When people talk about “account security,” they…

“Revolution” has many definitions. From the looks of this, I'd say “going around in circles” comes closest to applying... -Richard M. Hartman A funny thing happened on the way to the future. The mainframe outlasted its replacements. Minicomputers Minicomputers were supposed to kill the mainframe.…

(ai; didn't read) For me, writing is the most direct window into how someone thinks, perceives, and groks the world. Once you outsource that to an LLM, I'm not sure what we're even doing here. Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write? Before you get your…