Wordling 5.2: WordPerfect on Linux
A WordPerfect 5.1-inspired writing environment for Linux, built in Go with Bubble Tea, with file compatibility and PDF support in view.
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Software
A thread through the work.
Forking Flash before Adobe
A Flash 5 reconstruction, two failed approaches, and the documentation-curation process that finally got the movies compiling.
Software, social capital, and the failure of clone sites
I spent two years building clone-site software. The missing ingredient was the trust, relationships, and audience around it.
A deterministic RAD generator with an agentic backend
A low-code prototype with three tests: human control, token use, and whether a small local model can follow the workflow.
Lokshen: ungoogle your noodle
A search engine for indie creators, with anti-SEO editorial rules, a trivia pirate, and a classifier and reviewer that argue over the intake.
AGENTS.md, skills, and precomputed priors
Project culture, tool-specific skills, and concise instructions that activate what a coding model already knows.
A composable Brainfuck compiler for LLMs
If people stop reading generated code, what should a language for the machine look like? A deliberately obnoxious compiler proposal.
AI work across software, art, film, and music
A dated perspective on AI work across software, commercial art, filmmaking and music, including my own job interviews.
Shorthand comes back
Bringing an early-2000s scripting language back to parity, preparing Apache tests, and getting regular-expression parsing working.
Why agentic coding broke my estimates
When agents quietly work around a missing dependency, the architecture changes—and the cleanup breaks your estimate.
Lightshow: an artboard of slices
A local artboard prototype where slices connect page layers and states, and can target or affect other slices.
Token consumption is not productivity
Inference volume can rise because useful work is happening—or because a project is falling apart.
Monster voices on Linux
A change of pace from agent work: a Linux voice changer, because monster voices are fun.
Qwench: the planner should be the main actor
From a fluffy companion-app detour to a planning actor, a difficult terminal interface, and a migration from Python to Go.
Contribution guidelines are constraints for coding agents
Clear contribution policies, reviewable changes, and rejection feedback that tells coding agents what went wrong.