New Short Story: Tale of a Teenage Robot
I published a new short story – Tale of a Teenage Robot.
read onThe Weight of Prayers
I’ve been reading the Book of Tobit lately. It’s one of the deuterocanonical books – part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon but filed under “Apocrypha” by Protestants. A novella, really. A blind father, a demon-plagued bride, a faithful dog, and an angel walking in disguise for weeks without anyone noticing.
read onTwo approaches to AI coding memory: cursor-memory-bank vs compound-engineering
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how AI coding tools handle memory and context. Not the LLM’s context window itself, but the layer on top — the systems we build to help the AI remember what it’s working on, what it’s already solved, and what matters about this particular project.
read onThe Quiet Work
Told from the perspective of the Forgetting Lichen itself—an ancient bioweapon designed before the Collapse to decommission quantum storage systems. It spreads across stone like frost, glowing silver-white, waiting for the resonance of a Weaver's mind.
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Relax, My Child
Yesterday’s sermon at St. John’s was about being “Safe But Uncomfortable,” a theme the church has been exploring during Epiphany. Eric talked about walking in darkness versus sitting in it, about political instability, protesters being killed in Minnesota, a bishop warning clergy to prepare for martyrdom. He mentioned having his will in order, his life insurance sorted. (Recording here.)
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