— Journal · API
W27 · Pin Down the Vague.
One concept, three names, three layers — so nothing lined up. This week I pinned it down.
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Writing
Notes on thinking, engineering, and building.
— Reports · Tools
June · Converging the Toolchain.
June shipped no new features. It only made the existing ones hold. It may be the most valuable month of the year.
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— Journal · Fonts
W26 · Fonts Arrive First.
One Chinese typeface weighed seventeen megabytes. Split into ranges, first paint drops under one — and the page finally looks like itself.
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— Journal · Incident
W25 · A Bad Rollback.
The rollback took forty minutes. Thirty-five of them went to working out which version to roll back to.
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— Journal · API
W24 · Interfaces as Contracts.
Renamed one field. Three downstream places broke at once. A week spent re-learning the word "contract".
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— Tech · Agents
Wiring an Agent into Your System.
An agent is not a new system. It is a new client of the system you already run — treat it like one.
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— Journal · Tools
W23 · Fewer Tools.
Deleted four tools I never opened. Output held steady; the low-grade anxiety halved.
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— Reports · Mini Program
May · The Mini Program as a Card.
In May one thing became clear: the mini program is not a mirror of the site. It is a business card that moves.
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— Tech · Evaluation
Evaluation First, Then Everything Else.
Without an eval set, every change is a hunch. With one, iteration finally means something.
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— Tech · Context
Context Matters More Than Prompts.
Prompt tuning hits a ceiling fast. What actually decides output quality is the material you feed in.
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