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Finishing up the IDE (Chord Writer) for my new Interactive Fiction modeling language (Chord) for web+parser based games. https://sharpee.net/ https://sharpee.plover.net/

There is a half truth to code being the easier part. In order to reduce the complexity of eventually coding something, you use modeling and code probes to validate the business mod…

The interactive fiction community seems to have a subset of hardcore anti AI hobbyists. Partly at stolen artistic IP, but also the coding half of text adventures is viewed as art j…

https://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/07/harness-en... https://loiane.com/2026/04/harness-engineering-missing-la…

There’s a small group of established architects talking about harness engineering, but I’m not sure anyone is actually listening to them. And those same architects are quietly extr…

I work on my MacBook in direct terminal sessions or in a container with no safeguards. I save the container for well-planned units of work that can easily be repeated and validated…

GitHub is fine. The thing that’s changed is that we’re unlikely to need large teams anymore. Merging code will be easier and if planned properly (using AI planning skills), the wor…

Domains should own their data and some data objects can be split between domains. Data first is fine for simple systems, but lead to chaos for complex systems.

I’ve been postulating that knowledge of old school principles like Method One along with test driven development and domain-driven design are the external factors allowing a subset…

That study…I would have agreed with the group at that time. Up until December, I was vocally skeptical that GenAI could be used for anything more complex than a “departmental” app.…

These people keep citing that survey from 2025. That kills all arguments from the article instantly. December 2025 through today GenAI has become massively better. I’ve built thing…

I discovered Visual Basic 1.0 from his back page Info World column. Still have the manuals and floppy disks.

It adheres to the full scope of skills, agents, and my custom gates. I’d hate Claude without it. https://devarch.ai/ .

I think domain specific harnesses are already surpassing generic harnesses. I also think software development is its own domain. My harness is a Claude Code plugin with its own bra…

I’m still amused at how many people will lick the boots of any oligarch/startup toad.

I played around with Neo4j and only ever found two domains where it excelled. - custom app security - social media I also think cypher is a brilliant way to query a graph.

Does anyone at OpenAI know how to run a business?

Shipped version 2.2 of my Interactive Fiction platform Sharpee with Phrase Algebra. Designing a new DSL (Chord) that compiles to Sharpee (Typescript). https://sharpee.plover.net/

A lot of people died from Covid and if not for mRNA technology and extraordinary caregivers a lot more deaths would have occurred. That’s hype where it truly belongs. Don’t mix AI …

They are also the most expensive operational data stores and the younglings know almost no SQL or set theory. Schema management is the single worst part of deployments. If I build …

I extracted my books from my kindle over a year ago. Never buying books from Amazon again. EPUB on iOS works great.

This implies nosql data stores are not ACID capable. Mongo is fully capable and DynamoDB is mostly capable. I would challenge you to look at event driven architectures, CQRS, event…

Yes and for crud systems relational is fine because you're unlikely to over-complicated your architecture. But when a system starts talking to other systems and its bounded context…

Sorry I missed it. I was expecting an As clause but conflating VB is probably not what is wanted.