Loosely Coupled - Tim Marman

I connected Buzz to the agent organization and project interfaces I already run in Voxelbox, without moving the memory, tools or orchestration behind them.

Agents prepare DynastyDB rankings, keep routine operations moving and return ambiguous commissioner rulings for my review.

Voxelbox uses scheduled reflection to turn session history into sourced, curated operating instructions for future agents.

Claude found a capability I had buried, and Codex helped me keep it while cutting the proposal down.

Agentic coding made it cheap to build several versions, and git worktrees let me keep the attempts separate while I compared them.

Agentic coding makes another implementation cheap.

One stable project conversation can route a delegated task into its own thread and bring the result back.

I wrote because people read, replied and made the ideas better.

The more patterns I acquire, the more I have to draw on when I meet a new problem.

Microsoft's developer bribery strategy for Windows Phone is short-sighted compared to acquiring Xamarin.

I've always had a weird and complicated relationship with 9/11.

After migrating through multiple platforms and writing 1,100 posts over seven years, Twitter fundamentally changed my blogging patterns.

On the one year anniversary of the day I was told my cancer had spread, I spent the day at the very same hospital on regular follow-up testing.

Why Paying to Pitch is Necessarily a Scam

9/11

Fixing LCD Image Persistence on Multi-Monitor Systems

Augmented Reality on the iPhone

Weekend Reading #5

Entrepreneurship, Ambiguity and Risk

The Crash-Test Solution: Using physics to predict economic downturn