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.
The season is: Small Heat ●
Warm winds blow, young hawks learn to fly
Today’s belief is: Approachable is better than simple — Easy to start with beats theoretically pure. Practicality beats purity.
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I bought the instruction zine for The Studio Stool from Manual mont...
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...
Making MCP Tool Calls Scriptable with mcp_cli
I will often explore a solution or script with an LLM agent (e.g. C...
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It was calming to play this while working today, but it’ll melt off...
No records broken today but progress I’m sure.
Unknown location (p...
Progressing on my back-to-running plan, this half-hour run was six ...
Armin theorizes that this is because more recent Anthropic models h...
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