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Building in the open

Hello, friends. I’m Josh Beckman. I make things - mostly software, mostly for others. This is where I keep years of writing, notes, and reading highlights, as a knowledge garden built in the open. I write about software craft, building, and whatever I’m learning. Read more about me, what I believe, or jump to navigation.

Contributing to Open-Source Should be Required, Like Jury Duty

A note I found in my journal, from seven years ago, on the day I wa...

Directed Notifications for Claude Code Async Programming

This afternoon I leveled up my previous Claude Code notifications. ...

UI vs. API. vs. UAI

First we built a user interface (UI) when the application was just ...

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Moving the Critic Into My Editor

What if you could have an AI critic semantically linting your writing, inline?

Hurting Heel Run πŸƒ

My Achilles tendon is hurting. After a nap, I woke up still with a ...

Chest Weight Training πŸ‹οΈ

The less frequently I go to weight train, the harder it is to lift ...

Three LLM Agents for My Knowledge Garden

I built three AI agents that tend my knowledge garden in different ways: one walks in front, one walks behind, and one walks beside me.

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I was mostly bored by this film. The antagonist is supposed to be a...

Easy Breezy πŸƒ

I don’t want a gate in front of my door but this one I always enjoy...

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Sparrows start to nest, cherry blossoms bloom

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