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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 12 A feed to think withHow I turned a noisy Amsterdam apartment feed into a clean, high-signal one I can reason with — good-planning underneath, a move.nl dossier on top, public-data enrichment, and my requirements encoded as filters. 11 JSCAD CAD Generation with Swamp and Claude Code: Setup GuideStep-by-step guide: install Swamp from scratch, set up @magistr/jscad-cad extensions, configure the Claude Code skill, and generate 3D models from text descriptions. 10 Building a CAD Pipeline with JSCAD, Swamp, and ClaudeHow we built a CAD generation pipeline using JSCAD, Swamp extension models, and Claude — from choosing the right CAD system, through 7 iterations of debugging a genie lamp with 6-view projections, to publishing extensions and finding a bundle cache bug. 09 Today's Session: Cozystack on Tapok ClusterDeploying Cozystack on a Talos Kubernetes cluster using Swamp extension models, with claude-code handling the execution while the author approves steps. 08 Running macOS Tiger on QEMU: A Technical Post-MortemA 10-hour technical post-mortem of attempting to virtualize macOS Tiger 10.4 on QEMU with OpenCore, managed by claude-code and Swamp on Unraid. 07 The Sight of SystemsFrom observability dashboards to moldable development tools, exploring why we need the same 'sight' into our code that Grafana gives us into running systems. 06 A dream of AI-DLCA manifesto for the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle, reimagining how we build software when AI handles the coding and humans focus on intent and architecture. 05 The Pain-Driven WorkflowWalking through the painfully slow cycle of developing a Terraform module to show why engineers need better foundations, inspired by System Initiative's approach. 04 A future ways of workingBryan Cantrill's 2013 vision of leaderless engineering culture, how Oxide Computer builds on those principles, and what it means for the future of work in tech. 03 CfgMgmtCamp Day 0Reflections from Config Management Camp and FOSDEM, finding a tribe in the English-speaking DevOps community, and the value of in-person tech meetups. 02 Devops RoadmapA practical DevOps roadmap using Wardley Maps, covering Agile, Lean, and Six Sigma stages with relevant tools and technologies for each phase.