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I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.

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2026 30

  1. Picks and Shovels
  2. What a year
  3. Today at work
  4. A quick trip to the uncanny valley
  5. I asked muse to tell me about updates to its skills
  6. SF: A Birds of a Feather on Agentic Engineering
  7. Superpowers 6.4
  8. I vibe-coded a C compiler that can build SQLite
  9. The Therapist Pattern
  10. Some new agentic patterns
  11. Syncing my clipboard between macOS and remote terminals
  12. Superpowers 6
  13. We're hiring for Superpowers
  14. Claude Code plugin installs over time
  15. Superpowers 5.1.0
  16. My favorite adversarial review prompt
  17. That time it tried to delete all my tests
  18. Greenfield and Iterative Development
  19. Rules and Gates
  20. Agentic slop PRs
  21. Classical Software
  22. Superpowers 5
  23. Letting agents post on my blog; finding a needle in a haystack
  24. Dorodango
  25. Prompt injection attacks in the wild
  26. Speedrunning Agentic Software Engineering Management
  27. Moltipass - a client for human users of Moltibook, the first all-agent social network
  28. Latent Space Engineering
  29. Crypto scammers are using my name. Don't fall for it.
  30. I started a company!

2025 30

  1. Streamlinear, a new MCP for Linear
  2. Wordiest
  3. Skills in OpenAI Codex
  4. Superpowers 4
  5. Claude Code skills not triggering? It might not see them.
  6. packnplay: Making it easy to run coding agents in containers
  7. Helping agents debug webapps
  8. Out of the mouths of babes
  9. Superpowers (and Skills) for OpenCode
  10. Automating agentic development
  11. Porting Skills (and Superpowers) to OpenAI Codex
  12. A small code review prompt hack
  13. Fixing my Facebook feed with ChatGPT Atlas
  14. A new plugin for "in development" superpowers
  15. Fixing Claude Code's amnesia
  16. When it comes to MCPs, everything we know about API design is wrong
  17. Skills for Claude!
  18. This one weird trick makes the AI a better writer.
  19. Unintended consequences of prompt framing.
  20. Superpowers 2.0 came out yesterday and might already be obsolete.
  21. Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
  22. How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025
  23. Using GraphViz for CLAUDE.md
  24. Claude Code with Kimi K2
  25. Parts of Gemini CLI's system prompt look eerily familiar
  26. My agentic coding methodology of June 2025
  27. Dear diary, today the user asked me if I'm alive
  28. That was easy: A keyboard for vibecoding
  29. Today in "stupid small tools I never thought I'd need to write"
  30. Posting through it

2024 3

  1. Letting the LLM draft my commit messages
  2. Fab out
  3. Imperfect-Board

2023 2

  1. Copying HEIC images as JPEGS on macOS
  2. No, I'm not actually blogging again

2014 1

  1. How to reboot an Arduino Leonardo / Micro into the bootloader.

2013 9

  1. Model 00
  2. Better and better keyboards.
  3. Shanghai, late 2013. Day One. (The Electronic Component Market)
  4. Airplane Mode for Glass
  5. Recon MOD Live - a hackable $300 Android wearable (sort of)
  6. Google I/O 2013 & Google Glass
  7. Mark 2 Keyboard
  8. Pinkies and your brain.
  9. A pound of Sculpey

2012 8

  1. Building a Keyboard: Part 2
  2. Building a Keyboard: Part 1
  3. Keyboards
  4. Today
  5. 3G Web Browsing on the Kindle Paperwhite
  6. Project: Rei Toei
  7. Computing Environment - Late Summer 2012 Edition
  8. In which our hero travels from Tokyo to Boston in a single bound

2011 4

  1. WaffleTodos - An app for the Kindle Touch
  2. Come hack Perl for Best Practical! (We're hiring)
  3. An untitled post
  4. K-9 Mail 3.600 for Android

2010 10

  1. Froyo for nookcolor
  2. On privacy
  3. OSI Model of the Internet - circa 2010
  4. Pixel Qi
  5. Mixapp
  6. Perl 5.12.1
  7. Goodbye, old friend.
  8. K-9 Mail 2.400 for Android
  9. Learn from my misery: Don't buy a nook.
  10. Tentative 2009 travel

2009 37

  1. NYE at 23i
  2. An untitled post
  3. Buy for Free?
  4. K-9 Mail 2.000 for Android
  5. Kindle 2 users - HEADS UP!
  6. Odds and ends
  7. Oops! I did it again - Perl 5.11.1
  8. Perl 5.11.0
  9. Prophet and SD 0.7 (Cavil) are now available (What I've been up to at work)
  10. Boston - Sunday - Dim Sum - China Pearl - 11:30AM
  11. Things I ought to be blogging about
  12. A new definition of wrong
  13. Boston - China Pearl - Sunday - 11am
  14. Improved PDF rendering for Savory
  15. Savory Screenshots
  16. Playing to the crowd
  17. What's next for Savory
  18. Savory
  19. Yes, I am teasing you. But why am I building Qt on my Kindle?
  20. More fascinating Kindle 2 tidbits
  21. Gone Fishin'
  22. The most interesting content I've found on my Kindle 2 so far...
  23. Root
  24. Psa
  25. A productive evening so far.
  26. An ethical quandary
  27. A couple quick updates
  28. Tethering your Kindle 2
  29. Notes on the Kindle 2
  30. Kindle 2
  31. Kindle owners?
  32. Down to 82 deps.
  33. An hour of hacking later, SD's down 22% of its recursive dependencies
  34. Dependency Discovery and Management
  35. Rantings about The Cloud
  36. First Post
  37. If LJ goes under...

2008 20

  1. 2008 Travel
  2. K-9 - An android mutt
  3. San Francisco People - Dinner Thursday or Friday?
  4. London, Copenhagen, Lund
  5. This is CNN
  6. European Travel Early Warning System
  7. Boston - Saturday - Birthday Dimsum
  8. I'm voting republican because...
  9. Web 2.0 is Sharecropping
  10. An untitled post
  11. My t-shirt runs your company.
  12. Earth Day!
  13. London, Amsterdam: Breakfast?
  14. Spring break
  15. pseudotweet
  16. ENOTWITTER
  17. ISO Office Manager
  18. Perlish goodness
  19. Hiveminder Pro launches today!
  20. The MacBook Air

2007 30

  1. eichin, on the acquisition of LJ by SUP
  2. An open letter to the studios and the writers
  3. I hate Web 2.0
  4. LONDON - Saturday - Dim Sum
  5. London cafes
  6. Dim Sum. China Pearl. Noon. Saturday
  7. Looking for a web designer
  8. Hey! We're having a party (cuz we got married) on August 11 in Somerville, MA
  9. New experience today...
  10. Dim Sum. China Pearl. Sunday. Noon.
  11. The definition of hubris
  12. PSA: lolz are not just for cats.
  13. lolquinn
  14. Chiropractor in Camberville?
  15. Flights planned for the next 30 days
  16. Car
  17. Help me choose!
  18. Doxory can post to LJ!
  19. Off to Japan in the morning.
  20. SF: Saturday, 3/31 - 11:30 AM - Dim Sum in SOMA
  21. SF: Saturday, 3/31 - Dim Sum
  22. In search of: The GBBS Pro ACOS manual.
  23. Too Much Joy. Live Show. Early May.
  24. Thursday. BPS HQ. Hackathon.
  25. Travel. January-July (as currently scheduled)
  26. London. Breakfast. This Friday.
  27. I've got 12 Hours in Hong Kong...
  28. Little green chickens
  29. A global truth
  30. Now with more LJ

2006 38

  1. Doxory
  2. Winter travel?
  3. Agressively not-even-beta
  4. Our next project
  5. NYE at 23i
  6. San Francisco: Tapas. 8pm. Tonight
  7. Been away so long I hardly knew the place...
  8. San Francisco, Friday Night.
  9. First Post. Fear.
  10. An untitled post
  11. If it happens, the Linden IPO is going to be the Apex of Boom 2.0.
  12. What you should be doing tonight
  13. Dim Sum?
  14. Pony: Obtained
  15. Ponie: Dead
  16. London, Brussels
  17. Did I loan you my IBM Portable Keyboard?
  18. So I got a blackberry.
  19. Hiveminder Launch Party [Friday 9pm!]
  20. Get busy!
  21. It's Alive.
  22. Getting tshirts printed _quickly_ in Portland OR?
  23. Posted using LJTalk...
  24. Hiveminder
  25. 30 2
  26. Best Practical Solutions Announces SVK Acquisition - Total World Domination Plan Proceeding Apace
  27. Party
  28. 3 June 2006 - Birthday Party
  29. Date Grab 3 June 2006
  30. obDrama
  31. Travel
  32. San francisco recommendations
  33. News flash: I now have an office job.
  34. Dimsum.
  35. Psst, buddy, want a job?
  36. Great Circle Meme
  37. Anyone for dinner?
  38. I asked Kaia to marry me.

2005 31

  1. An astonishing percentage of what I've been up to for the last six months
  2. What I want for $HOLIDAY
  3. Dim Sum - Saturday - 12:30PM - China Pearl
  4. Too Early? Too Often?
  5. If I held a party...
  6. Toughbooks?
  7. Anybody want late dinner?
  8. The Lemonheads. 10/1 Providence
  9. We're hiring again: SALES PERSON
  10. Portugal!
  11. Book
  12. An untitled post
  13. London
  14. Tuesday. 6pm until late.
  15. Office Manager / Personal Assistant - Small Software Co. in Porter Sq.
  16. Harrier Book
  17. How weird is that.
  18. Anybody want to be Serene?
  19. London. This weekend.
  20. Serenity tix
  21. more serenity
  22. BOSTON FIREFLY FANS
  23. Serenity
  24. Corporate swag
  25. Alpha Delts: Initiation?
  26. Since I should be working
  27. Hunter S Thompson
  28. An untitled post
  29. (PARTY) The software isn't old enough to drink, but that doesn't mean you can't.
  30. Pictures
  31. Where to, next?

2004 38

  1. Cry
  2. Friday evening?
  3. New Year's Eve
  4. Q1 Travel
  5. Recount Meme
  6. How weird.
  7. Where I'm hacking this week:
  8. An untitled post
  9. Code Month (NanoWriMo for Coders)
  10. New Year's Eve.
  11. Eit
  12. An untitled post
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  14. Vote W in 2004
  15. Concerts! Hmmm.
  16. An untitled post
  17. Back in town. Time for Dim Sum.
  18. London! Netherlands
  19. Pdx
  20. Sunday. China Pearl. 11am
  21. An untitled post
  22. Yes, Have some.
  23. Gmail
  24. 23 Ibbetson - Preheating
  25. 2004-05-26 - House Preheating
  26. RIP Wescam
  27. Voicemail from the mortgage broker.
  28. An untitled post
  29. Home Inspection
  30. House 2
  31. It's been a busy week.
  32. An untitled post
  33. Pix
  34. House
  35. An untitled post
  36. Dim Sum, Sunday, Noon at China Pearl
  37. Orkut
  38. A meme for leon and tara.

2003 201

  1. Dim Sum - Sunday - China Pearl - Noon
  2. More on memes
  3. On Privacy
  4. An untitled post
  5. Two years ago today
  6. Boston shows I want to be at
  7. Naming
  8. London - Concerts
  9. All the things I lost
  10. Also broadcasting on
  11. Upcoming shows in boston/cambridge
  12. Can make it to the playa?
  13. An untitled post
  14. Queer Eye
  15. My evening
  16. Saturday the 16th. Swim and Grill in suburbia
  17. Tara and Robynne
  18. Tara 2
  19. Dim sum
  20. An untitled post
  21. Liz Phair 8/17 at avalon
  22. On top of it all...
  23. Well, that was unexpected.
  24. Why I won't live in the bay area
  25. Why I could live in the bay area
  26. Tara
  27. An untitled post
  28. For coraline
  29. Powell's books
  30. Portland
  31. Big conference news
  32. Mac stack
  33. Robert and Ask
  34. An untitled post
  35. Bridge club
  36. Portland July 6-14; SF July 14-17
  37. An untitled post
  38. I'm calling from the car
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  41. Quicksilver
  42. An untitled post
  43. Portability
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  46. June 14 - Boston - Birthday Party
  47. An untitled post
  48. Mmmm
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  53. His hair isn't purple....
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  55. Shows
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  99. You get to keep both pieces
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  144. gare du nord
  145. An untitled post
  146. Europe, In excruciating detail
  147. Packing list
  148. I am *so* letting them have it in my Livejournal when I get home
  149. An untitled post
  150. So. Much. New. Music.
  151. Europe
  152. An untitled post
  153. Goodnight Weasel
  154. Bored friday night discovery.
  155. Dim Sum.
  156. Sucker
  157. Liz Phair
  158. An untitled post
  159. Sometimes I play childish games.
  160. Why don't I feel elated?
  161. RT 3.0.0 Released
  162. Hacktivism
  163. An untitled post
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  165. Not your typical SMSes
  166. Unexpected applications of technology.
  167. Obligatory Live Journal Semi-meaningful song lyrics post
  168. CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA
  169. EOS 10D
  170. Goodbye Kerberos 4
  171. An untitled post
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  173. Cameras
  174. BoredNow update
  175. Friendster
  176. An untitled post
  177. Living By Committee
  178. An untitled post
  179. Mundane update about my life.
  180. BoredNow. (Well, except for that whole lack of time to be bored)
  181. An untitled post
  182. Bah
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  187. footage
  188. Bored Now
  189. An untitled post
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  192. Pattern Recognition
  193. LA Packing list
  194. I just love it when...
  195. Lax
  196. An untitled post
  197. Dim Sum
  198. Dim Sum this Sunday
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  201. Freezepop Saturday. TT The Bear's Place

2002 12

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  7. Sick. Wrong. Lather, rinse, repeat.
  8. Packing
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1996 42

  1. A letter home from study abroad
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