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November 2026

Nov 14
- ChangedHome: the dial is gone; a menu of icon tiles instead.
Nov 13
- ChangedKFTCDA: a simpler first screen that shows the three services
Nov 11
- ChangedBoundary layer iterative development: three pillars, in lists
Nov 11
- ChangedBoundary layer iterative development: the two-loops figure, to try
Nov 11
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 21 of 22Boundary layer iterative development: no more sprints
Nov 11
- NewHumans outside the loop: harden the checks, not the code
Nov 10
- Newrigswig 0.4.0: it picks up a Hermes session launched from Ollama
Nov 10
- Newrigswig 0.3.0: CI baselines, strict checks and exact what-ifs
- Changedrigswig 0.2.2: the status bar follows the live session
Nov 10
- NewMy story: from a 1983 BASIC class at summer camp to now
- NewHex-editing Starflight II saves, learned from CompuServe
Nov 10
- Changeddial tweaks
Nov 9
- Changedupdating SERPS
Nov 9
- Changedautonomous speed improvements
Nov 9
- ChangedThe concierge now asks what’s hardest first, then picks for you
Nov 9
- ChangedFor your business pages: tell me what is hardest, then pick what fits
Nov 9
- ChangedThe dials on Home, the Lab and What shaped me now open in place
Nov 9
- NewThree ways to work together: now on the home page
Nov 9
- ChangedThe AI Concierge banner is bigger, on phones too, and opens the Concierge
Nov 9
- NewThree ways to work together: now near the top of KFTCDA
Nov 9
- NewThree ways to work together: now on every For your business page
Nov 9
- NewAI Concierge: pick your kind of business and start
- NewSearch by business type at the top of For your business
Nov 9
- ChangedRepos: two retired repos taken off the list
Nov 9
- ChangedRepos is my own public repos now: rigswig, agent-neuron and more
Nov 8
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 18 of 22On call: a stale ask withdrawn, the late answer refused.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 19 of 22Colony: ants, thresholds, and the trail in the ground.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 20 of 22Neuron Space: the series drawn in 3D, with the colony.
Nov 8
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 14 of 22Quorum: two branches, a split desk, a real merge.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 15 of 22Backlog: a week routed by the house rules in the file.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 16 of 22Spend: the ceiling becomes a policy diff for round two.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 17 of 22Refunds: paying is an effect; a crash reads unknown.
Nov 8
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 2 of 22The direction chapter: three engines on main, the MCP surface.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 3 of 22Chapter: the first example wraps three kinds of thing.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 4 of 22The alert storm: threshold, staleness, a composed diagnosis.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 5 of 22The typing demo: stale work cut under the next keystroke.
Nov 8
- FixedThe agent-neuron chapters: their titles showed a template; fixed.
Nov 8
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 6 of 22The suggest demo: a threshold of distinct senders.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 7 of 22The loop demo: hops stopping a ring of neurons.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 8 of 22The composed demo: a network behind one wrapper.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 9 of 22The notify demo: effects that newer work never cancels.
Nov 8
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 10 of 22The human page: a person answers the run on the desk.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 11 of 22The Rust demo: the same wrapper over a Rust program.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 12 of 22The team-decisions demo: three people merge a real branch.
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 13 of 22The capstone: the run as the multiplayer table.
Nov 8
- Newagent-neuron joins the Projects hub; twelve draft chapters coming.
Nov 8
- NewAI Concierge services live on the home page: Elite AI Enablement.
Nov 7
- Changedrigswig 0.2.1: pick two harnesses to compare, each against its own window
Nov 7
- Newrigswig 0.2.0: on Homebrew, and what past sessions used
- Changedrigswig 0.1.4: Copilot CLI and Hugging Face CLI, eleven harnesses
- Changedrigswig 0.1.3: an MCP server
- ChangedThe Lab has a Projects group, and rigswig lives there
Nov 6
- Newrigswig: what your coding agent loads, a tool I built
- Changedrigswig 0.1.1: on npm and crates.io
- Changedrigswig 0.1.2: five more harnesses, nine in all
Nov 5
- NewLab chapter: Software factories, chapter 1 of 4Software factories, chapter 1: How dark is the factory?
- NewLab chapter: Software factories, chapter 2 of 4Software factories, chapter 2: Tests can be gamed
- NewLab chapter: Software factories, chapter 3 of 4Software factories, chapter 3: Encoding what makes it yours
- NewLab chapter: Software factories, chapter 4 of 4Software factories, chapter 4: What they have shown
Nov 5
- NewSoftware factories: an old word for a new line, a Lab series
Nov 5
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 0 of 22agent-neuron, chapter 0: The idea in one alert
Nov 5
- Newagent-neuron: recordings of wrapped agents, played back on one clock
- NewLab chapter: agent-neuron, chapter 1 of 22agent-neuron, chapter 1: Agreement
Nov 4
- NewTemplate or built: a site looked after every day, and when a template wins
Nov 4
- NewA-changin’: why I’m optimistic about AI, and who I’d hire
Nov 3
- ChangedThe agent pages are now Harness, a numbered series
Nov 3
- NewThe Porch, a room for slower pieces
- ChangedStoicism and Japanese ways moved to the Porch
- ChangedThe Lab is five domains; Biology is in Matter
Nov 3
- NewLab: Watermarks in AI text, how they work and where they fail
Nov 3
- ChangedLab: the menu is a dial now
Nov 3
- ChangedLab: The AI Platform team is now Organizational AI Governance
Nov 3
- ChangedHome: the dial's menus have more room
Nov 3
- ChangedHome: the dial's menus fan out from their icon
Nov 2
- NewOpinions: Who to hire now
- NewOpinions: Attention is the bottleneck
- NewOpinions: What gets cheap, and what doesn’t
Nov 2
- ChangedHome: Inside my brain lists every What I love topic
Nov 2
- ChangedAbout: links to LinkedIn and my story, the map further down
Nov 2
- ChangedHome: the bento's headings are labels now, each with its own colour
Nov 2
- ChangedHome: the dial has a Lab setting, and interests are now Inside my brain
Nov 2
- FindExploring Super-agent Design: Towards a More Autonomous Agent System (opens in a new tab)x.comA design for an always-on agent: a router session talks to people, workers run tasks in parallel on events, a watchdog sits outside. Early tests.ai · engineering
Nov 2
- NewDossiers: six new profiles, and a photo on every one
Nov 2
- NewWhat I love: the dial filters the walls
Nov 2
- ChangedHome: the selector is now a dial
Nov 1
- ChangedHome: pick a path and the page filters to match
Nov 1
- NewRepos: 15 tools around REA, under a new reverse engineering topic
Nov 1
- NewDossiers: Altman, Amodei and Huang, with a graph of who funds whom
Nov 1
- NewLab chapter: Jev, chapter 4 of 8Jev: a model that decides, chapter 4: gating an agent’s action
- NewLab chapter: Vault, chapter 6 of 8The vault and the graph, chapter 6: permissions and privacy
- NewLab chapter: Harness, chapter 6 of 7Traces, checkpoints and receipts: what an agent run should leave behind
- NewWhat people mean by a harness, and where its parts are on this site
Nov 1
- ChangedHome: what is new is a bento now: Substack, Lab, KFTCDA, Finds and Repos
Nov 1
- FindWe should be more ambitious with the software we build (opens in a new tab)danluu.comAI tools cut the cost of building software, so people should attempt projects they once ruled out; heavy testing can make the results good enough to trust.engineering · ai
Nov 1
- NewLab chapter: Quantum, tutorial 3 of 12Quantum computing by hand: Measurement, collapse and counting shots
- NewLab chapter: Jev, chapter 3 of 8Jev: a model that decides, chapter 3: routing a request to a model
- FixedPhone menu: full width, solid and easy to read

October 2026

Oct 31
- ChangedHome: a shorter intro, three ways in, and the 3 newest Substack articles
Oct 30
- ChangedRepos: one sticky row of topic switches, and a card for the repo you pick
- ChangedHome: a new Repos callout, the topics and repos as two linked spheres
Oct 30
- ChangedRepos: bigger, brighter spheres, with the topics named
Oct 30
- ChangedThe Repos graph is now 3D, and leads the page
Oct 30
- NewRepos: a batch of Claude Code and agent repos from GitHub search
Oct 30
- NewMemes can now be added by email
Oct 30
- FindManifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning (opens in a new tab)404media.coReports that Proton's leadership is pushing rapid AI adoption, and that staff describe intimidation; a spokesperson acknowledged some employees are unhappy.ai
Oct 30
- NewLab chapter: Jev, chapter 1 of 8Jev: a model that decides, chapter 1: deciding, not writing
- NewLab chapter: Jev, chapter 2 of 8Jev: a model that decides, chapter 2: what a probability is for
Oct 30
- ChangedThe Lab is a plain menu for now; the sky is parked
Oct 30
- NewRepos: ten Claude Code plugins, skills and MCP servers
Oct 30
- NewRepos, a new Lab section: ten second-brain repos for Claude and Obsidian
Oct 30
- NewLab chapter: Vault, chapter 3 of 8The vault and the graph, chapter 3: what an agent should write back
Oct 30
- NewLab chapter: Vault, chapter 1 of 8The vault and the graph, chapter 1: a vault is a folder of linked notes
- NewLab chapter: Vault, chapter 2 of 8The vault and the graph, chapter 2: read the vault before you act
Oct 29
- ChangedThe site's title now says I'm interested
Oct 29
- FixedThe home page loads cleanly again after it refreshes in the background
Oct 28
- NewMy latest Substack article now sits just above New
Oct 28
- ChangedThe home welcome now points to working with me and to my practice
- NewEvery Wes Anderson feature is on the movie wall now
Oct 28
- NewFollow me on X, or read me on Substack, from the About page
Oct 28
- ChangedThe hero words spark, burst and bounce now, in the Lab drawer colours
Oct 28
- NewOn a desktop, the home hero takes itself apart and puts itself back
Oct 28
- ChangedMy name glows green into cyan, on the home page and in the header
Oct 28
- ChangedAbout me is now in the menu, after Contact me
Oct 28
- ChangedThe home page says hello: I'm interested, and a word on what's here
Oct 28
- NewThe sky as a chart: every hub on one flat map under the Lab sky
- ChangedAI security now sits in the Trust part of the sky
- ChangedTwo topics renamed: Science, and Philosophy
Oct 28
- NewA share icon in the top right of the header, beside the photo
Oct 28
- ChangedWork with me on the home page now sits on a faint green wash
Oct 28
- FindHunger beats tenure: advice for junior engineers (opens in a new tab)felixrieseberg.comExecution got cheap, so what counts now is picking the impactful problem, building the prototype yourself, and keeping fresh eyes. Good advice at any level.ai · careers
Oct 28
- FindPhysical AI Data (opens in a new tab)physicalaidata.comResearch, dashboards and maps for physical AI: robotaxis, humanoids, EVs and drones, and the companies in their supply chains.ai · robotics
Oct 28
- NewMemes: a stream of things that made me laugh, one at a time
Oct 28
- NewA share button at the end of most pages, or a link to copy
Oct 28
- ChangedThe Lab on the home page: six drawers, one for each part of the sky
- ChangedWhat I love on the home page: one shelf of covers and three doors
Oct 28
- FixedOn phones, the home portrait no longer shows through what is below it
Oct 28
- ChangedThe home page splits what is new into Lab, KFTCDA and Finds
- NewFinds: short notes on things worth a look, with their own feed
- ChangedWhat is new can now be read one stream at a time
Oct 28
- NewOne page for each kind of business: websites, AI and security
- NewAn agent graph drawn for each trade, from HVAC to tax offices
- NewThe rules each trade works under, with their sources
- ChangedThe trade pages moved from /websites/for to /for
Oct 28
- ChangedThe AI Setup is now KFTCDA Elite AI Enablement
Oct 27
- NewThe AI Setup: AI on your real work, with a person signing off
- NewHow it is built: an agent graph and a shared notebook, drawn
- ChangedThe software-spend review is now part of the AI Setup
Oct 27
- NewStoicism, the inner citadel: a storm to stir, the Stoics in their words
- NewLab chapter: Stoicism, chapter 1 of 7What is up to you: sort the world as Epictetus did
- NewLab chapter: Stoicism, chapter 2 of 7The four virtues, as a temple of four columns
- NewLab chapter: Stoicism, chapter 3 of 7From the porch to the palace: the Stoics from Zeno to today
Oct 27
- NewTen quiet Japanese ways, from ōsōji to hansei, on one winding ink path
Oct 27
- NewWebsites for real estate agents, with listings from your own MLS
Oct 27
- NewSee what a website costs over three years, against the alternatives
- ChangedThe terms now say when a monthly site turns off after cancelling
Oct 27
- ChangedThe enquiry form now sends through my own mail service
Oct 27
- NewThe sites I've built have a page of their own
- ChangedThe websites page shows the brands I've built for
Oct 27
- ChangedEvery small business website button now lets you pick monthly or yearly
- ChangedThe website layouts are examples, and every one is fully customizable
Oct 27
- ChangedEach kind of business now shows five ways its website could look
Oct 27
- NewEvery small business website now comes with Google Analytics events
- NewPay for the small business website by the year, from How it works
Oct 26
- ChangedLab sliders and labels now work better with keyboards and screen readers
- ChangedEvery Lab series page now has breadcrumbs and what to read next
Oct 26
- FixedThe site font loads properly again, with clearer focus outlines
- ChangedA calmer look: one accent colour and a helpful page-not-found
Oct 26
- ChangedA clearer enquiry form, with help when something is missing
- ChangedThe small business website pages, redesigned
Oct 26
- NewWebsites for salons, barbers, trainers and pet services
- NewWebsites for restaurants and cafés
- NewWebsites for insurance agents, movers and detailers
- NewWebsites for small-engine repair shops
Oct 26
- NewMore people, more agents, same plan: The Mythical Man-Month today
- NewA new Lab section: software development philosophies
Oct 26
- NewWebsites for plumbers, roofers and pest control
- NewWebsites for home inspectors, cleaners and exterior cleaners
- NewWebsites for handymen and painters
- NewWebsites for bookkeepers and tax preparers
Oct 26
- ChangedOnline booking on Square is now part of the small business website
Oct 26
- NewWebsites for tree care crews
- NewWebsites for landscaping and snow crews
- NewWebsites for electricians
- NewWebsites for heating and cooling businesses
Oct 26
- ChangedThe small business website: start it, or see how it works, from the top
Oct 26
- ChangedSubscribe to my Substack right from the footer, and vouch for me on Leland
Oct 26
- ChangedThe Lab is now a full-screen sky: click a galaxy to fly in
Oct 26
- NewWhere AI money goes in US healthcare, sourced, with the evidence against
Oct 25
- NewI write up the Lab on Substack: subscribe from the footer of any page
Oct 25
- ChangedA new About page: the people I keep going back to, as a sky
Oct 25
- NewTwenty more films on the movie wall, from Citizen Kane to Parasite
- NewThe writers, poets and thinkers from my About page on the writers wall
- NewMore bands and songwriters: Neutral Milk Hotel, The Doors, Black Flag
Oct 25
- ChangedAI on offense: the July Hugging Face intrusion, from both accounts
- ChangedAI security: what two companies changed after a machine-speed attack
Oct 25
- FixedThe music hub now says music I play with, not music I make
Oct 24
- ChangedThe Lab and its explainers no longer carry the website offer
Oct 24
- NewSix topics, from AI and security to cars, physics, robotics and music
Oct 24
- NewA menu on every page: How things work, What I love, Work with me, New
- NewEvery chapter and film now ends with what to read next
- NewEverything new on the site in one place, with an Atom feed
- FixedThe Lab sky labels sit on their own constellations and can be clicked
Oct 24
- NewA new home page: How things work, What I love, Work with me
- ChangedNew Lab chapters now show on the home page with everything else
Oct 24
- ChangedThe Lab sky and list now include the V2G and V2X pages
- ChangedAI security joins the Lab section of the home page
- NewA plain-text guide to the site for AI assistants, at /llms.txt
Oct 24
- NewLab chapter: AI security, chapter 1 of 7The hours nobody is watching: a week, and how fast intruders move
- NewLab chapter: AI security, chapter 2 of 7The shrinking exploit window: days to exploit, volume, deadlines
- NewLab chapter: AI security, chapter 3 of 7What attackers are documented doing with AI, 2024 to 2026
- NewLab chapter: AI security, chapter 4 of 7What watching all the time looks like: an agent loop
Oct 24
- NewSecurity in the age of AI: my argument, sourced, with the last 30 days
Oct 24
- NewV2G and V2X: how a car sends power back, from the standards
- NewAn ISO 15118-20 bidirectional session, step by step
- NewThe V2X standards map: who governs which link, AC and DC
Oct 24
- NewEvery discography film now has a Timeline: the records and the waits
- ChangedThe Lab sky sways gently, and a tapped card has a close button
- NewSmog on the bands wall, linking to the Bill Callahan film
Oct 24
- NewA film of Bill Callahan’s records, from Smog to My Days of 58
Oct 24
- ChangedThe Lab sky glows more softly
Oct 23
- NewHow the small-business website works: what it covers, and domains
Oct 23
- NewLab chapter: Zero trust, small business trackIf you run a small business: nine steps, CISA’s ratings, your profile
Oct 23
- NewFollow the Lab’s series: what is open, the newest chapters, Atom feeds
- FixedThe Lab sky now names the brain under Biology
Oct 23
- ChangedThe Lab is now a night sky: each topic a constellation, each page a star
Oct 23
- NewLab chapter: Blockchain, tutorial 2 of 11Blockchain, recomputed: hash real Bitcoin and Ethereum blocks yourself
- NewLab chapter: Blockchain, tutorial 9 of 11Read a block explorer page field by field, and check its numbers
- NewLab chapter: Blockchain, tutorial 1 of 11SHA-256 and Keccak-256 side by side, and why Keccak is not SHA3
Oct 23
- NewLab chapter: Zero trust, tutorial 2 of 10Zero trust, one request at a time: be the policy engine
- NewLab chapter: Zero trust, tutorial 1 of 10Watch an attacker spread through an office, with and without zero trust
- NewLab chapter: Zero trust, tutorial 3 of 10Why passkeys stop phishing that SMS and app codes do not
Oct 22
- ChangedSharing the lab now shows a wall of its models
Oct 22
- NewQuantum computing by hand: the Bloch sphere, interference and Grover
- NewHow developers learn robotics, with an arm and a PID loop to play with
Oct 22
- ChangedThe discography films are now a wheel: spin it for a random film
Oct 22
- ChangedSharing the home page now shows my photo and what is behind each door
- FixedThe work and What shaped me now show a picture when shared
Oct 21
- NewBook the Software Checkup and small fixed-price jobs online
- NewWebsites for trades
- NewOnline booking that takes the deposit for you
- ChangedThe software-defined vehicle, now with more pictures
Oct 21
- ChangedThe home page now shows everything behind each door
- ChangedConsulting and roles are separate on the work door
- ChangedSpotify search and playlists are gone; music is all here now
Oct 21
- NewMusic, in two halves: what I make, and what I love
Oct 21
- NewThe software-defined vehicle, in six sourced pictures
- NewDavid Bowie film, and his cards on the bands and songwriters walls
- ChangedEV charging now also lives under Automobiles
- NewChords: hear and see a progression go away and come home
Oct 21
- FixedVisit counts are now accurate: one view per page
- NewBreakfast of Champions added to the books wall
Oct 20
- NewMike Patton discography film
Oct 20
- NewA guide to software costs for small businesses
- NewA page for accountants who refer clients
Oct 20
- NewThe Software Checkup, a fixed-price assessment