Too many projects, too many ideas, too few hours — one learning a day anyway
A tester wrote that picking a food didn't change the wine. The unit tests passed — they score a hand-built wine that is obviously right against one that is obviously wrong. So I measured what he saw: forty cellars from the real catalog, one white among eight reds. Ten times out of forty, choosing fish kept a red. The…
The thing I lose most to coding agents isn't wrong code, it's the scroll. I ask why a deploy broke and get…
I have been talking myself out of a bigger GPU for months, and this settles it. Q4KM of Qwen3.8 27B is 17 GB,…
The failure mode Herdr targets is the one I actually have: not too many panes, but one pane quietly waiting…
The number that matters to me isn't the 40 on the Intelligence Index, it's the input side: 8 billion active…
I run agents against my own boxes, and my mental model was always "read-only is safe." That's the part of…
The day's real work was dennismilton.com, and it was mostly me arguing with a page. I built a calling card as one skeleton with four looks behind a render gate, then spent twenty-two commits demolishing my own choices. The name was 124px against a 30px…
read the day →