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Slow death of IaCA Wardley map of infrastructure as code in November 2026, and how I read it.
384 wordswardley mapping · iac · terraform
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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
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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
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Swamp launches todayAn observer's note on Swamp's launch day, from January to seed round to GA in October.
336 wordsswamp · ai · agents
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
1,083 wordsswamp · good-planning · moldable-development
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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.
421 wordsjscad · cad · swamp
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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.
1,809 wordsjscad · cad · swamp
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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.
538 wordscozystack · talos · swamp
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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.
769 wordsmacos · qemu · virtualization
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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.
601 wordsobservability · devops · tools
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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.
5,336 wordsdevops · wardley mapping · ai