Eric Brookfield

The client asks the question while you're still setting up the presentation.

I asked an agent to make a hero video for Argus.

I'm an engineer and builder juggling multiple software projects at once.

I spent a few hours tonight giving my AI assistant an email address.

Anthropic [announced Code Review for Claude Code](https://www.threads.com/@claudeai/post/DVrOfogkWbV) this week.

975 emails in the confirm queue.

The development loop I've landed on for [Picket](https://sellwithpicket.com): I write the spec.

I had over seven thousand unread emails in my inbox.

I wrote [a post on Monday](/2026/02/10/a-hundred-commits-and-a-nap.html) about shipping a hundred commits in a week and collapsing into bed.

I shipped about a hundred commits last week.

I have 8,597 audio samples.

Remember when I was excited about [self-hosted CI on Fly.io](/2026/01/31/self-hosted-ci-flyio.html)?

I wanted to use WarpBuild for faster CI, but it only works for organization repos.

I asked an AI to help me reimagine my personal site.

I was recently putting together a payment processing flow.

Whenever I get down on my job, I need to remember I've incorporated command line tools called '[asdf](https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf)' and '[thefuck](https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck)' into my regular life, and that I'm using computers the right way to ju…

If you're in a web development job where you find yourself occasionally writing HTML, CSS and Javascript in the style of what may be disparagingly called *spaghetti code* — code that presumably works ...

the internet was good to me today

Did you never tell your phone, "Hey Siri, scan a document," and then watch it pull up the document scanning UI?

We moved to a JiT model for laundry and it a) is better and b) sure makes it look like I have too many clothes.

Full-stack engineer sure is a fancy way to write “generalist.”

Behold the Apple Vision Pro.

DISCLAIMER: This is not advice.

Time was you got to the end of the internet.

My yearly digital tidy and email hygiene reset * everything in the inbox(es) as of Jan. 2: mark as read * create folder(s) for previous year (2023), if you haven't already made one[^1] * inbox c...

[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/62lK9U7R6onp9ALxt7NjTH?

I’m the Her (2013) guy now.

> Frankly, I think everyone is so focused on comparing Vision Pro to the Quest 3 that they’re missing the point of what the Vision Pro really is: it’s going to disrupt the TV and projection screens in...

[THE PURITANICAL EYE: HYPER-MEDIATION, SEX ON FILM, AND THE DISAVOWAL OF DESIRE](https://specchioscuro.it/the-puritanical-eye-hyper-mediation-sex-on-film-and-the-disavowal-of-desire/?

[Duke libraries drop Basecamp.

It started with this deal on stickers last year. $29 / roll of 100, die cut stickers.

regularly marking the whole inbox as read and moving things into a $currentYear folder is a high recommendation from me, a fully employed professional

just because you want to be studio boy with logic pro doesn't mean you take your eye off the ball: batch processing a bunch of stem-based audio projects from a digital mixer (zoom livetrak, tascam mod...

reading these lamentations of the internet and social media of yore popular in the last month or so. they mostly read like songs of bygone youth, which we've been writing about forever. for a moment, we all got to play in a vast space without edges. then…

if people want to make the internet more like the 90s / 00s, let's do it and let's [do it right this time](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/...

I’m 38 and just starting to understand that I’m allowed to organize my clothes however my brain wants.

“Judah this is the heigth of musical accomplishment by Western civilization.

how to rebuild a read it later habit

I see you toast, making Apple Pay less convenient because you want “express checkout with toast” to be more convenient.

## It’s an edge case until it isn’t: sharing an iCloud link edition.

The Bear s2e6 is a pivotal episode of television.

2 eps into The Bear S2… just a goddamn masterpiece of a piece of media we can't talk about as a collective because of fragmented media viewing habits. it has everything we need to be discussing in ame...

Make it Great Again, but This Time It'll Be Different.

I’d love to see a Tim and Eric style public service announcement with very calm, clinical individuals explaining how “we’re all having a hard time dealing with the death of Twitter, but our team of experts have developed strategies for even the most deran…

i figured out safari tab groups. their purpose, how they’re supposed to be used. scenario: you open a bunch of tabs loosely tied to the first tab, set A. you’re done with set A and now you do somet...

Hypothesis: all difficulties in professional relationships stem from a communication imbalance.

Sorry my phone wasn’t normal computer enough.

## JTBD Most people really don't want to use computers at all.

the problem is, we don’t need _a lot_ of smart connected things. we each want _one or two_ smart connected things. but we each want _different_ connected things. that makes for a very large market o...

I had to wish somebody a “Happy St.