How working as the architect to an AI coder removed the syntax tax on unfamiliar languages, and what still has to come from me.

Read Josh Finnie's review of Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre and Carol Macomber on Hardcover

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Read Josh Finnie's review of The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman on Hardcover

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After years of tmux and a recent stretch running Zellij, I replaced both with Herdr, a background runtime built around keeping AI coding agents alive across reboots. Here is why I switched and how I configured it.

This AI school is spreading across America.

Read Josh Finnie's review of Exhalation by Ted Chiang on Hardcover

Read Josh Finnie's review of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke on Hardcover

I used Impeccable, a design skill for Claude Code, to document this blog's actual design system and then critique it against its own rules. Here is what it caught, from a shadow rule three components were quietly breaking to a blog index rendering ten H1 tags on one page.

Mono-Black Pox by BlogBoy deck list with prices for Magic: the Gathering (MTG).

Read Josh Finnie's review of On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle on Hardcover

A while back I added ESLint and Prettier to this blog. This year I pulled both out and replaced them with Biome, a single Rust-based tool that formats and lints in one pass. Here is why, and what the switch actually looked like.

Read Josh Finnie's review of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler on Hardcover

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Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sweeping internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine users’ ages before allowing them to read websites, send private messages, or ...

Read Josh Finnie's review of Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw by Tatsuki Fujimoto on Hardcover

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