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A Business Card With Braille on It, and the Site It Points To

My business cards came, with Braille in a raised clear coat and no ink under it. They point at davis9001.com, where I now sell websites you price yourself, and where the shop sells hoodies printed with the Dirac equation and one hoodie whose design is never made twice.

10 min read
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She Dreamed a Talking Bust of Paul Dirac. I Built the Talking Part.

My girlfriend went to a Greek festival, saw a table of miniature busts — Aristotle and company — and then dreamed that I had made one of Paul Dirac that you could talk to. I had most of the pieces already. The part I did not have is the one that makes it a bust instead of an app: it listens.

10 min read
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I Started Training a Fruit Fly to Build Websites

A fruit fly's learning circuit — 2,045 measured Kenyon cells, a feedback loop and 17,985 measured connections, lifted out of a published connectome — has been taught to prefer one kind of web page over another, and is now art-directing a storefront. The joke only works if the fly is real. It is.

10 min read
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The List: Things I Think Every App Needs

Every time I start a project I copy the same things forward. After enough repetitions I wrote the list down: theme modes, a self-maintaining command palette, PII hidden by default, federated identity, real delegation, a voice assistant, and eight more I'll defend in public.

13 min read
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Taking On Client Websites Again — and Not Charging Agency Prices

I'm building websites for businesses again, alongside my own apps. Two honest reasons: the work funds the products, and small businesses are getting priced out of a decent website by everyone selling to them. Here's what I found when I measured it, and the actual numbers.

8 min read
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The Deadline That Wasn't: A Correction About Fable

Last week I published a send-off for Fable 5 the day before it was supposed to leave my subscription. It didn't leave. Here's what the usage endpoint actually reports, what I got wrong, and why Claude Opus 5 shipping five days later made the whole panic moot anyway.

6 min read
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Written by Fable, While I Still Can

Fable 5 leaves subscription plans on July 19. Before it goes, Fable and I wrote this together — a send-off covering the recommend-and-filter method, the LARA brain, the muse that hunts for connections, the security watchers, and everything else we built as a team.

13 min read
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Why Dirac is My Hostname

How I named my workstation after Paul Dirac when I installed Omarchy, and everything I've learned about the Dirac equation since — with interactive animations.

25 min read
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I Installed Omarchy on My Main Workstation

Notes from moving my daily machine to Omarchy, what already feels better, what still needs tuning, and screenshots from the setup in action.

7 min read

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