Notes on craft.

Inconclusive

I measured what Foundry was saving me. A counter that showed $513,000 instead of $3,900, four local models at 0 out of 12, a threshold missed by 0.93%. And no savings I can announce.

Two seconds after the merge

I had written that changing tracking tools would no longer cost me a rewrite. I plugged in Linear to check. One ticket closed by itself, seven more written into a read-only archive, and a 5,853-line adapter.

Twenty-four seats: giving an LLM a memory

A conversational character that remembers for weeks is not a big context window. It's a write path, a read path, and a series of thresholds I had to measure one by one. The whole system, with the code and the numbers.

Green means proven green

My first merge guardrail let a PR through with no tests at all. How a one-line rule became a gate in Python, and what it refuses today.

Three tracking tools in six weeks

GitHub Projects lasted thirteen days, my Obsidian vault twenty-five. What each migration cost me, what I kept, and why the next one no longer scares me.