A few months ago I was talking with a technology law firm about how fast a competitor could duplicate a piece of software once they’d seen it working. Their estimate: about six months. These are smart people who work on technology deals all day. The real answer, for the thing we were discussing, was about six weeks. And nowadays, with current tooling, I think that timeline could be as short as two or three weeks. ...
I just finished watching the season five finale of For All Mankind. No spoilers, but the whole show is filled with people in spacecraft stuck, slowly running out of resources of one variety or another. And, shortly after, I happened to catch this video on the World War II buoys anchored out in the English Channel to rescue downed pilots. My brain just decided to staple the two things together and do some napkin math to see if the idea would actually hold up. ...
I’ve been seeing versions of the same question all over the place lately, Reddit, Discord, X, LinkedIn, and in random chats: how do you actually control these coding agents? Not how do you ask nicely. Not how do you write a better system prompt. I mean: how do you make the control real, programmatic, and tied to the actual tool call that is about to happen? That is a big part of why we’ve been leaning so hard into hooks in DollhouseMCP. ...
I don’t need a full CMS. I need a publishing workflow that stays out of my way. The Problem with Traditional CMS WordPress, Ghost, and their cousins all share the same assumption: your content lives in a database, and the CMS controls access to it. That means servers, logins, attack surfaces, and maintenance. For a personal site, that’s overkill. I want to write, review, schedule, and publish. I don’t need user management, plugins, or a PHP runtime. ...
This site exists because someone on Hacker News decided to be unhelpful. What Happened I had an old WordPress site at mickdarling.com that I hadn’t touched in years. It was a placeholder, nothing more. At some point, the ad network got compromised. One of those fake “MacOS Security Center” malware popups that everyone’s seen before. Did the person who found it send me a note? No. They posted it publicly on HN as a gotcha. Not “hey, your site has a problem.” Just a drive-by to try to make me look bad. ...