notes on software, systems, and tools
The context protocol described the water. The bootstrap spiral described the motion. Neither exists without the pipe — a versioned, governed, replayable runtime where context is the primary citizen and agents are ephemeral compute. ContextOS is that pipe. And its deepest proof of concept is that it builds itself.
Meetings, specs, UIs, alignment reviews — none of these are natural law. They're compensatory structures for human bandwidth. When agents replace humans on the main execution path, those structures don't get optimized — they evaporate.
Humans build tools for humans. Humans build tools for agents. Agents build tools for agents. Agents build agents that build agents. The bootstrap spiral is the phase transition where agents step on their own output and rise -- left foot on right foot, straight to the sky.
Skills tell agents how. Context tells agents what. But nothing tells agents what happened before. Every agent interaction is a first date -- polite, careful, and completely ignorant of history. The context protocol is the missing infrastructure.
A WebSocket connection that should take 100ms was taking 23 seconds. Debugging it required structured logging on both frontend and backend to isolate the problem to React StrictMode zombie WebSockets and IPv6 fallback delays.
Inside the Ralph Wiggum plugin for Claude Code -- the stop hook architecture, completion promises, and the debate over independent context windows vs continuous sessions.
How to implement Shift+Enter multiline input, tmux yank to local clipboard via OSC 52, and Ctrl+V image paste for Claude Code in a web-based terminal.
Why Unicode characters render as underscores in web terminals, and how the real fix is passing LANG/LC_ALL to docker exec.
A practical technique for distributing curated records across large datasets using exponential decay, ensuring quality surfaces early without clustering.
How to use Claude Code for enterprise data analysis by transforming the problem into codebase file editing. Covers embeddings + clustering limitations, the IR workflow pattern, parallel Task agents, and report validation to prevent hallucinations.
A breakdown of the infrastructure required for production web scraping - from proxy pools to anti-bot bypass to hosted scrapers - and why SaaS solutions exist.
A comprehensive comparison of Traditional RAG, GraphRAG, and LightRAG - their architectures, trade-offs, and when to use each.
On the paradigm shift from human-centric to agent-centric tools, the progressive automation of work, and what it means for human society.
The context fork and agent arguments let skills run in isolated sub-agents, keeping intermediate steps out of the main conversation's context window.
Agent Skills use progressive disclosure and script execution to dramatically reduce context consumption compared to MCP's upfront tool loading approach.
A deep dive into modifying macOS system assets to achieve square window corners and remove the 1px window border.
Why Claude Code hangs at "0 tokens" when macOS has disabled-but-configured proxy settings that interfere with SSE streaming.
On knowledge alignment, context engineering, HITL limitations, and why code is becoming the universal tool for machine intelligence.
Information quality determines decision quality. Your cognition - built from deep thinking about the information you acquire - shapes every decision you make.
A practical guide covering corporate structure, payment infrastructure, banking, team management, cloud services, and visa options for tech founders expanding to North America.
Create conditional key remapping rules that exclude specific applications using Karabiner Elements' Complex Modifications.
Why PE tools cause USB drives to be misidentified as local disks, and how to work around it.
Understanding and repairing Windows boot failures after removing a Linux dual-boot partition.