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AI Shoulder Surf V3
A smaller, more intimate third AI Shoulder Surf session. The connective theme this time was Tailscale: people are stitching together private home labs and reaching their agents and static sites from anywhere without exposing anything to the public internet. Also: coding from a phone, splitting planning and …
On Writing and Failure
“Businessmen are only amateurs at failure, just getting used to the notion. Writers are the real professionals.”
No Inhibitions
“Learn your instrument. Practice, practice, practice. Then forget all that and just wail.”
Enabling Private Vulnerability Reporting
A small gh one-liner that turns on private vulnerability reporting for every public, non-archived, non-fork repo you own — or every repo in an org you administer — so security researchers have a sanctioned channel to report issues before they go public.
The Great Perl Toolchain Summit CLI Throwdown 2026
A second year of CLI picks from the Perl Toolchain Summit — terminals, JSON tools, version control, agent sandboxes, and a shell trick worth knowing. Each pick comes with a short description and a link.
AI Shoulder Surf V2
A friendly group of developers, no recording, no posturing — just shared screens and honest notes from the second AI Shoulder Surf session. The recurring theme: people are tightening up where their agents can reach, and getting choosier about which models they trust with the work.
On Cooldowns and Dependabot Tuning
Dependabot’s defaults can make it look like an agent of chaos. Here’s how cooldowns, dependency groups, and a Claude skill turn down the churn — fewer rebases, boring CI, and a few extra days for the world to flag the bad actors.
AI Shoulder Surf V1
Notes from an informal Zoom session where developers shared AI tools, automation techniques, and projects. Topics included using Claude in headless mode to manage version bumps across 20+ packages, an overnight bot that processes GitHub issues and responds to PR comments, the “Talk About Us” copy-auditing …
Can Others Explain My Work Without Me?
It’s easy to fall into a trap of using jargon when discussing what you’re working on. Sometimes we need help expressing our thoughts in interesting and meaningful ways—using our own voices, in a way that’s memorable and repeatable. A blog post by Anil Dash helped me rethink my writing. I’ve …