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An aged apostle at his desk, hand pressed to his brow in thought, an open manuscript before him and his sword hanging on the wall beside him.

Writing

Essays and short fiction on people, ideas, art, and philosophy.

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Apostle Paul, c. 1657. National Gallery of Art, Washington

6 pieces

  1. · 2 min read

    Context7 is useless

    It charges two API calls and a guess for a page with no version stamped on it. One line in my CLAUDE.md does the job better, and for nothing.
  2. · 7 min read

    Vercel is buying the web

    The frameworks, the React core, the auth layer, the typeface and even the job title now answer to one company. I went looking for receipts expecting to soften that, and the dates checked out.
  3. · 2 min read

    R

    A transmission from the search for someone I could not prove existed.
  4. · 2 min read

    Life is interesting

    I don't know whether life has meaning. What I want explained is why the question bothers us so much.
  5. · 2 min read

    The thin line

    Good and evil are sometimes one decision apart, and the people worth trusting are the ones who know they could cross the line and don't.
  6. · 2 min read

    Sitting in discomfort on purpose

    A small private habit of being slightly uncomfortable every day, and what it leaves you with when the discomforts you didn't choose show up.
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