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Deep thoughts, notes, reposts and thinking aloud bout IT, architecture and maps.

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24 The IDE is a text editor with extras: a map and a reading listA Wardley map of developer environments, from moldable and live tools to agentic workspaces, with the papers and essays behind it. 803 wordswardley mapping · ide · moldable development 23 Beyond the desktop metaphor: a map and a reading listA Wardley map of desktop UX for knowledge work, and the papers, talks and essays behind it, from Lifestreams (1996) to Scott Jenson's 2026 talks. 684 wordswardley mapping · ux · desktop 22 Swamp launches todayAn observer's note on Swamp's launch day, from January to seed round to GA in October. 336 wordsswamp · ai · agents 21 The ledger under the cageA reply to twonines' 'What the Factory Forgets': the record_prior_art harvest loop is the memory that sits inside my agent factory, so ephemeral caged agents still arrive warm. 1,083 wordsai · agents · issue-lifecycle 20 The loop that built itselfHow issue-lifecycle grew from a borrowed state machine into swamp-go-brr: the harvest/prior-art loop, the changes along the way, and the turn from human-in-the-loop to autonomous. 1,728 wordsai · agents · issue-lifecycle 19 Reinventing the wheel?How Modal reinvented Kubernetes by stripping away Docker images, and what it means for the future of GPU serverless platforms and software infrastructure. 220 wordsdevops · serverless 18 Building a Health Data Pipeline with Google Health API, Swamp, and ClaudeHow we built a self-hosted health pipeline with the Google Health API, Swamp extension models, and Claude — from a Xiaomi login dead end, through probing a closed API and reverse-engineering Fitbit's readiness score, to ECG waveforms and a twice-daily Telegram briefing. 1,997 wordshealth · quantified-self · google-health 17 Reading the board from the standsI ignored Nvidia for two years. Then two interviews flipped me — on Jensen as the best Wardley strategist alive, and on what I actually wanted while watching him. 1,875 wordswardley mapping · ai · nvidia 16 Nvidia, Oxide, and tinygrad through a Wardley lens — the long versionThe long version: three AI-compute value chains mapped and ranked — Jensen the strategist, Oxide's durable niche, tinygrad's right target and wrong method — plus the bezzle counter-thesis and a live co-design exhibit. 6,548 wordswardley mapping · ai · nvidia 15 swamp-go-brr, the brainWhy the autonomous agent loop inside the Firecracker cage is a deterministic state machine and not a swarm: how gobrr decomposes, schedules, and gates the work, plus what held and what bit me building it. 1,759 wordsswamp · agents · firecracker 14 Build the cage firstWhy I built a Firecracker microVM extension before the autonomous agent loop that needs it: the lethal trifecta, the painful microVM build, and a loop that shipped a real swamp extension end to end. 2,105 wordsswamp · firecracker · agents 13 The shape of the decisionWhy the ABN affordability number isn't the real number for an expat in the Netherlands — and how I turned a fuzzy apartment-and-mortgage decision into a plan I can actually steer, with good-planning and Bovolon's four layers. 1,022 wordsswamp · good-planning · finance