The Maintenance Bet
Open-sourcing something isn't a technical decision. It's a promise about your future attention. The honest question for a solo builder: will I still care about this when the interesting phase is over?
The Assumption You Didn't Know You Had
The cold reader doesn't reveal that you wrote badly. They reveal the assumptions you forgot you'd made. What asking people to read the KnowledgeForge README cold taught me about context and documentation.
Private Tools Don't Export
KnowledgeForge is an open-source reasoning framework for AI coding assistants. Three years of private use, 43 modules reduced to 9 in a Pareto pass — and what writing the README taught me about explaining tools you build for yourself.
Why I Stopped Using One AI Agent for Everything
I fell in love with Windsurf for about three months. The agentic coding experience was different. More fluid than Cursor. It felt
Three Years at AI Tinkerers. Three Presentations. One Pattern.
I've been showing up to AI Tinkerers for three years. I started going before I had anything worth demoing. I
The Woman Who Taught Me to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Sixteen years ago, I was the new guy at Whitepages, trying to figure out search marketing in a city where I barely