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34 episodes across 4 seasons 5 standalone articles
Season 4 — The Agent Era
Jun 2026 onwards · In progress · 11 episodes
- The Dreaming Loop
- Feeding from Outside
- The Night the Mac Died
- The Number It Was Reading
- The Proxy That Ran Hot
- The Codex Lane
- The Instrument Panel — Voice, Runner v2, Terminal
- Building the Cockpit — Thursday Chaos to Console-Born
- Git History for the Agent's Brain
- The Morning After — Proving the Fixes Were Real
- The Night the Fleet Audited Everything
Articles
Standalone writing
- I Won the Writing Award. Quên Won the Track. What I Learned About Production AI
- Memory as a Measurable Engineering Problem
- I Rebuilt My Site and Opened My Decision Log
- The Speedometer I Made Up: Building a Token Budget Governor for AI Coding Agents
- Co-authored-by is a Lie: Cryptographic Provenance for AI Coding Agents
Earlier seasons
The story from the beginning
Season 3 — Building in Public Feb–Jun 2026 · Complete · 10 episodes
- The Great Restructure — rebuilding the skeleton while the platform learns to measure itself
- Scout Fleet and the Async Ceiling — what a 200× speedup doesn't fix
- The defenses you haven't built yet — async, a path traversal, and the bug erasing the evidence
- Ten bugs, two-tenths of a point — the weekend search got measurably better
- Twenty-six hours, twelve tickets — and the audit that started everything else
- The Second Graph Comes Online: Activation, Communities, and an AI Reversal
- The Refusal Gate: Teaching a Bot to Say I Don't Know
- The Day Everything Got Sealed
- Streaming Journals: Kafka Meets LLMs
- From Side Project to Platform: How Running Out of Disk Space Led to Rebranding an Entire Platform
Season 2 — Validation Oct 2025 · Complete · 5 episodes
Season 1 — ConvoCanvas Oct 2025 · Complete · 8 episodes
- Teaching the System to Blog About Itself
- Teaching the System to Document Itself: Automated Architecture Diagrams
- When Everything Crashes: The K3s Resurrection
- The Migration Question: When K3s Meets Reality
- ChromaDB Weekend: From 504 to 24,916 Documents
- The AI Awakening: Breaking Free from Context Limits
- Building the Foundation: Vault Creation to MVP
- Day Zero: The ConvoCanvas Vision
Dates show when each piece was published. Episodes may describe work from an earlier period.