I’ve been building two internal tools at Lullabot lately. OpptyNet finds government RFPs for us. Upstraker tracks upstream patches across our open source contributions. Both needed real UI design, not just “make it work” design. And I found myself doing that design work almost entirely through conversation.

I published a new short story – Tale of a Teenage Robot.

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.

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.