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AI Shoulder Surf V3
·2339 words·11 mins
AI
automation
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 implementation across separate quotas, and the slow drift toward giving agents their own scoped identities.
On Writing and Failure
·309 words·2 mins
failure
writing
“Businessmen are only amateurs at failure, just getting used to the notion. Writers are the real professionals.”
No Inhibitions
·91 words·1 min
creativity
music
“Learn your instrument. Practice, practice, practice. Then forget all that and just wail.”
Enabling Private Vulnerability Reporting
·356 words·2 mins
security
github
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
·1203 words·6 mins
cli
dotfiles
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
·1150 words·6 mins
AI
automation
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.