Ideas and field notes

Writing from the work itself.

Notes on product choices, technical constraints, operating real systems, and the quieter lessons that only appear after something ships.

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Technical notes and product lessons.

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Aug 2026AI product systems

A project brain gives AI something better than a blank prompt

Give AI maintained product facts and evidence instead of another blank prompt.

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Feb 2026Reliability

Prevent Your OpenClaw Gateway From Randomly Stopping

A practical watchdog that detects failures and safely restarts an OpenClaw gateway.

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Dec 2025Local-first

Why I Built a Local-First Git Analytics Tool (Without AI)

A case for reading local Git history without cloud processing or AI.

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Aug 2025Product thinking

Google Keep is great, but its labels are broken

See how SubKeep adds nested labels and a native-feeling sidebar to Keep.

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