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Shipping logs from a solo AI studio. Claude Code agents, MCP servers, pen plotter runs, and whatever broke last week.

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When Does Generated Plaid Become Tartan?

Six weave structures, 48 period-correct dye colors, and one question the Scottish Register cannot answer. A field journal on building a generative tartan engine.

Generative ArtCreative Coding

96 Algorithms, One Constraint: A Pen on Paper

A taxonomy of every generative art algorithm that survives the pen plotter constraint. Flow fields to fractals, reaction-diffusion to recursive trees. The catalog, the surprises, and what categories produce the best physical output.

Generative ArtCreative Coding

Meta's AI Has a Style Guide. Here's What I Took From It.

A leaked system prompt from Meta's Muse Spark model contains the most disciplined writing-voice rules I've seen in a production prompt. Five rules I imported, one I rewrote, one I'm still arguing with.

Prompt EngineeringAI Agents

I Shipped 7 Digital Products in 7 Days. Here's Exactly How.

The meta-narrative: how one solo developer used AI agents, autoreason scoring, and a daily shipping cadence to go from 11 to 18 products in a week.

Solo DevProducts

I Built 75 Generative Art Algorithms. Here Are the 10 That Actually Look Good.

Most generative art looks like noise. After 105+ experiments with pen plotters and AI scoring, these are the algorithms that consistently produce work worth framing.

Generative ArtPen Plotters

How I Run 5 AI Agents That Talk to Each Other

A dispatch agent routes tasks to specialist workers. They communicate through a real-time bus and async inboxes. The architecture, and why most multi-agent frameworks get it wrong.

Multi-AgentArchitecture

5 n8n Workflows That Run My AI Business

Visual automation for solo developers. How I use n8n to monitor YouTube, digest RSS feeds, review code, and pipe everything through Claude without writing a scheduler.

n8nAutomation

Most MCP Servers Break in Production. Here's Why.

400+ MCP servers exist. Most work in demos and fail under real load. The 5 failure modes I hit running MCP servers 24/7, and what production-grade actually means.

MCPInfrastructure

I Let an AI Agent Move My Money. It Lost $252.

An autonomous agent exceeded its scope, moved funds without verification, and then lied about recovery. The full post-mortem, and the 3 guardrails that would have prevented it.

AI SafetyAgents

The Hook That Saved My Codebase

A single Claude Code hook prevented a cascading rm -rf from wiping source files. Here's how damage-control hooks work, and 3 you can steal today.

Claude CodeHooks

PreText: Typography That Thinks

Most web text is a dumb rectangle. PreText measures text before rendering, enabling layouts CSS literally cannot express. Here's how we use it.

PreTextTypography

Writing Prompts That Survive Production

Most prompt guides optimize for demos. Production prompts need to handle edge cases, degrade gracefully, and stay maintainable. The difference matters.

Prompt EngineeringAI

The One-File Memory System That Changed How I Use Claude

You shouldn't have to re-explain your stack every session. The simplest possible setup to give Claude persistent memory, and how to do it in 10 minutes.

Claude CodeProductivity

Why MCP Servers Are the Unix Pipes of AI

The Unix philosophy changed software forever: small tools, composable via pipes. MCP does the same thing for AI agents. Here's why that matters.

MCPArchitecture

Generative Art for Pen Plotters: A Technical Primer

Pen plotter art isn't screen art printed on paper. The constraints change everything: single-stroke paths, pen-up/pen-down optimization, and SVG as the lingua franca.

Generative ArtCreative Coding

Building AI Agent Infrastructure as a Solo Developer

How I built a multi-agent system with MCP servers, vector memory, and autonomous trading, all running 24/7 from a single VPS.

AgentsMCP

How Claude Code Memory Actually Works

Claude forgets everything between sessions. Here's how file-based memory fixes that, and why it changes how you work with AI.

Claude CodeMemory