infrastructure

How a Claude responder spawned itself into a kernel panic, and the structural fix: a kill switch outside the failure domain, plus a single shared doorman that gates every Claude-spawning subsystem.

Five ways I have reached the development environment on my Mac Mini from an iPhone in a playground, and why each one replaced the last.

Long-running tasks fail silently if the session dies before the result is ready. This is the runner I built to make "email me when done" actually mean that, plus the retry loop, fallback paths, and last-ditch file write that back it up.

A worked recovery plan for the Mac Mini that runs my personal AI setup: what gets backed up, what does not, the ordered sequence to rebuild, and the gaps I have chosen to accept.

What happens when one person uses an AI coding assistant as the primary interface to a real physical and operational life, and fixes every failure that occurs along the way.

Every automated helper I built to make my printers more reliable ended up making them less reliable. Here is each one, the print it ruined, and what I run instead.

The difference between using AI a lot and being AI-native: infrastructure as the limiting factor, not model capability.