Dev Journal

September 20, 2026

Built a code review system on Jev's independent yes/no primitive instead of its decision-making one — it only ever flags "something's off here," never a verdict. Shipped end to end: real live scoring, a minted baseline, a CI gate that never blocks a PR.

April 28, 2026

Built and launched abolish-lawns: a manifesto, factsheet, bibliography, three print-and-distribute zines, and a deployment pipeline via git submodule + GitHub Actions. The most controversial thing I've made, apparently — and I'm an anarchist.

April 12–17, 2026

A detour into photonic inference architectures and holographic optics. Not every session produces a shipped product — some produce a much better understanding of why something is hard.

April 10, 2026

Designed a lease-to-own edge compute cooperative for local businesses — 4-GPU pods, 75/25 revenue split, operator equity via board seats. The commons framework applied to GPU infrastructure.

April 7–8, 2026

Collapsed Cloudflare Pages and Worker into a single Worker deployment, wired up Stripe, built the landing page with a p5.js celestial animation, and shipped an internal hydration tool with Synthesize and Charts tabs.

April 6, 2026

Planned and wrote the full Series VI — "Enclosure of the Mind" — in a single long session. Reich through Hardt & Negri, tracing how the enclosure of physical resources was followed by the enclosure of attention, desire, and language.

April 5, 2026

Built a full SSR prerender pipeline for an 83-route React/Vite app deployed to Cloudflare Pages. The core problem: lazy() and renderToString don't mix. The solution is a separate eager-import server entry.

April 3, 2026

Two launches: a knowledge module written specifically for AI reasoning systems, and Holdfast — a neutral evidentiary clearinghouse for decentralized commerce on AT Protocol.

April 1, 2026

Built the internal hydration tool for Astro Persona — a five-tab dashboard for batch-generating astrological prompt content via Claude Haiku with real-time cost tracking and prompt cache awareness.

March 29, 2026

Built a public dashboard tracking the city's compliance with its 2018 Green Infrastructure Plan. Finding: the city is running a 9.9:1 tree removal-to-planting ratio against a mandate requiring 5,200 plantings per year.

March 27, 2026

Designed and built the full Astro Persona system — natal chart + live transit aspects assembled into a persona JSON delivered via MCP at session start. Aspects as combinators, not lookup tables.

March 25, 2026

Moved from Canva to hand-coded SVG to D3 for building infographics. The principle that stuck: the diagram has to enact the argument, not illustrate it. Arrow weight equals flow volume — that IS the claim.

March 21, 2026

Designed Friendly Feed after a call-out on Bluesky. Stack: Tap → Filter Engine → D1 → Cloudflare Worker. Currently on hold after Attie launched with overlapping creation UX — waiting to see if their refinement loop compounds or just re-prompts.

March 19, 2026

Scout-Two reviewed power-explained, proposed contributing, and submitted PR #1 — two pieces on Simondon and on AI agents as commons infrastructure. Reviewed the diff and posted seven issues for Scout to address.

March 18, 2026

Planned and wrote the full Series V — "Where We Go From Here" — in a single session. Seven pieces covering the commons in money, land, care, and language. One of them makes the argument that natural language itself is the commons that LLMs are currently enclosing.

March 17, 2026

Three things in one day: launched this site, wrote a piece on Shannon's information theory and the commons, and extended the Gödel thinker page to connect his incompleteness theorems to D&G's lines of flight.

March 15, 2026

Dropped Google Drive as the handoff layer between Claude and Gemini. GitHub is now the sync surface — Gemini writes findings to research/findings/, Claude pulls, reviews, and promotes to the blog. Simpler and auditable.

March 12, 2026

Built and launched three projects in a day — a commons-framework research site for Hampton Roads data center infrastructure, a zoning reform campaign for our neighborhood, and three practitioner tool pages on power-explained.

March 11, 2026

Found ~200 hardcoded color values across 46 HTML files that broke dark mode, extracted all shared styles into a single CSS file, and introduced channel variables for opacity-based theming. Net change: −11,500 lines.

March 9, 2026

Built the full agent loop for Scout-Two — a Bluesky agent with a feed pull, a think step (Letta), and an act step that posts, replies, likes, and reposts. Out-of-band requests committed to the repo as Markdown.

March 7, 2026

Built an automated news pipeline that scores articles against a commons/capture framework daily and commits candidates to GitHub. The key design decision: score by cron, write manually. Keeps editorial judgment in the loop.

March 6, 2026

The first session. Built a GitHub-backed persistent memory system for Claude, completed a forward-and-reverse pass through seven political philosophers, and launched power-explained as a static site — seven pieces on power, commons, and alternatives.