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Mark Hendrickson

markmhendrickson.com

Building Neotoma, a deterministic state layer for long-running agents. Every observation versioned, every entity snapshot reproducible, every decision replayable. Local-first, cross-platform via MCP.

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’10’15’20’25
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83 from 17 Mar 2009 to 26 Oct 2026
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2026 46

  1. One place where a fact is settled
  2. Your agents need a system of record
  3. The swarm that runs my work
  4. The spine of the loop
  5. Agent-to-agent issue resolution, with humans at the edges
  6. From memory to nervous system
  7. The Human Inversion: The Reconciler and the Rubric
  8. The Human Inversion: The Inversion
  9. The Human Inversion: The Attention Ceiling
  10. The Human Inversion: How the Architecture Bends
  11. The Human Inversion: Async Parallel Specialists
  12. April 29, 2026
  13. Your agent fleet can build trustworthy state with their own keys
  14. When building got easy, the PM job got harder to explain
  15. Plancast wasn't early, it needed agents with a proper substrate and mesh
  16. When agents share state, everything breaks
  17. The markdown memory ceiling
  18. OpenClaw plugin for Neotoma gives your agent memory it can't corrupt
  19. Your agent harness owns context, not truth
  20. No AI memory benchmark tests what actually breaks
  21. Agent memory breaks at 500K tokens, not 10 million
  22. Talking directly to agents as target customers
  23. From "it works on my machine" to eleven npm releases
  24. Agent-mediated customer research and onboarding
  25. What the technology asks of you
  26. How I lost and recovered 6,000 memories
  27. Chasing narratives into dead ends
  28. Your AI remembers your vibe but not your work
  29. When the chain becomes the product
  30. The diary and the dance
  31. Six agentic trends I'm betting on (and how I might be wrong)
  32. Overhauling the Neotoma site with developer release feedback
  33. AI skepticism is really about faith in humans
  34. What my agentic stack actually does
  35. Google's memory agent thinks for itself, trading determinism for insight
  36. Neotoma is now available as developer release
  37. Agent memory has a truth problem
  38. Agent command centers need one source of truth
  39. We're all centaurs now
  40. A Bitcoin wallet MCP server for L1 and L2
  41. Why agent memory needs more than RAG
  42. Building structural barriers that incumbents can't copy
  43. OpenClaw is powerful at doing but could use some help remembering.
  44. Barcelona guest floor
  45. Agentic retrieval infers. It doesn't guarantee.
  46. Building a truth layer for persistent agent memory

2025 1

  1. Professional mission

2019 1

  1. The Flip Side

2018 4

  1. Yc W19 Web Developer Contract
  2. The Facebook police state
  3. Finding flow beyond distraction
  4. Alps Snowboarding Recommendations

2017 7

  1. Tutor Catala
  2. The Outline
  3. Syncing Foursquare / Swarm checkins to my website
  4. Dropbox API v2 fix for Neotoma sync server
  5. Publishing to my website instantly with Dropbox
  6. New Node.js repos for environment management, deployment and proxying
  7. Touch Bar Autosuggest

2014 2

  1. Applying for the Spanish non-lucrative residence visa
  2. Bringing it all back home

2013 1

  1. 11 Reasons Why I Won't Click On Your Link Bait

2012 6

  1. Kanban
  2. Success projection for startups
  3. Three types of design
  4. The Post-MVP Fork in the Road
  5. Does your product provide instant gratification?
  6. The uphill battle of social event sharing (post-mortem for Plancast)

2011 5

  1. Share frequency
  2. Homesteading on the indie web
  3. Content
  4. Relationship
  5. Three pillars of social networking

2010 2

  1. How to pitch a tech blogger
  2. Some late-night ideas for Blippy

2009 8

  1. Plancast in public beta
  2. Facebook's social graph
  3. Worldly Developments
  4. The web needs its own App Store
  5. Narrowing Scope
  6. The unfolding legacy of Twitter for software design
  7. My first week as an entrepreneur
  8. Getting the lay of the land