software by Stafford Williams
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- 2026-04-30 Steering the Vibe: Orchestration
- 2026-03-08 Steering the Vibe: Permissions
- 2026-02-22 Steering the Vibe: Complexity
- 2026-02-11 Steering the Vibe: Review
- 2026-02-01 Quality and Suffering in Software Delivery
- 2026-01-15 Agent orchestration
- 2026-01-04 Twelve months of agentic AI code-assist
- 2025-12-29 Steering the Vibe: Refactor
- 2025-12-21 Porting Jekyll to Astro with Claude Code
- 2025-12-14 Steering the Vibe: Verify
- 2025-12-07 Steering the Vibe: Commits
- 2025-06-04 AI Code Assistance: Are we talking about the same thing?
- 2025-03-16 Embrace Vibe Coding, Know Its Limits
- 2025-03-09 You Might Not Need an AI Framework
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- I don’t have a requirement for scheduled tasks as yet
- Worktrees are close to impossible
- I use
assistfor skills & cli-wrapping, though I do use Claude connectors - Sub-agents - no thanks, i’ll make the deterministic thing (assist) control the non-deterministic thing (claude).
- State/memory - this is
assist backlog
Open urls from WSL using this xdg-open drop-in replacement.
This is agent orchestration, but Loop Engineering is for sure a better term. My notes:
Ncurses Disk Usage or ncdu is a handy little utility for analysing disk space in your linux distro.
apt-get install ncdu
ncdu / --exclude mntDavid Fowler speaks to integrating agentic workflows into existing development teams, noting that:
If you care about your codebase, getting it ready for agents matters.
and,
No universal AI workflow can be dropped into every engineering team.
A few different views (via links) of Steve Yegge’s Levels of AI Development.
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down speaks to the outcome earnt by not paying attention to what your AI agents are generating.
1Password-CLI-WSL-Integration provides a WSL wrapper for using the 1Password CLI considering there is no support natively for running the CLI in WSL.
The Tool Overtriggering in Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 migration skill notes why I like less markdown than more. The optimized markdown you have right now is optimized only for the model that you optimized it for.
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- 2025-12-15 [netsh, iisexpress, wsl] excluding ports from hyper-v
- 2025-03-29 [ssl] mac keychain
- 2025-03-03 [javascript, timezones, vitest] timezones
- 2025-01-14 [bookmarklet, chrome] add text to clipboard
- 2024-12-11 [javascript, timezones] datetime libraries
- 2024-05-01 [mikro-orm] type annotations
- 2024-03-13 [azure-b2c] limits
- 2024-03-11 [azure-b2c] phone mfa - microsoft samples
- 2024-03-06 [http] testing
devlog more
- 2026-06-10 [assist] v0.273 - Resilient sessions and dashboard polish +35 ▸
- 2026-06-09 v0.264 - Session cards that show their work
- 2026-06-08 v0.258 - Launching backlog work straight from the web UI
- 2026-06-07 v0.245 - Sessions that survive a server restart
- 2026-06-06 v0.243 - Review by PR number, and an org leaderboard
- 2026-06-05 v0.239 - A PR review gate and some shortcuts
- 2026-06-04 v0.234 - A day of backlog polish
- 2026-06-03 v0.229 - Backlog moves to Drizzle
- 2026-06-02 v0.226.1 - Granular backlog edits and mid-run phases
- 2026-06-01 v0.224 - Backlog moves to Postgres
- 2026-05-27 v0.223 - Gate backlog runs on pending handover
- 2026-05-25 v0.221 - handover and recall commands
- 2026-05-19 v0.220.2 - assist review surfaces reviewer failure details
- 2026-05-18 v0.220.1 - assist review handles missing codex CLI
- 2026-05-15 v0.220 - SHA mode and codex guidelines for assist review
- 2026-05-13 v0.217 - Backlog shortcuts, skott, and repo selector
- 2026-05-12 v0.215 - assist review orchestrates Claude and Codex
- 2026-05-07 v0.211 - /verify-new slash command
- 2026-05-06 v0.210 - Forward comments command and subdir fixes
- 2026-05-04 v0.209 - assist sql for MSSQL
- 2026-05-01 v0.207 - assist mermaid export
- 2026-04-29 v0.206.2 - Resolve Roam port file by channel
- 2026-04-23 v0.206.1 - cli-hook approves redirects to OS temp
- 2026-04-22 v0.206 - verify init defaults to assist.yml
- 2026-04-21 v0.205.1 - Windows fix for assist devlog next
- 2026-04-17 v0.205 - Spike — auto-generating skills from session data
- 2026-04-16 v0.205 - Unified web UI, assist modes, global deny
- 2026-04-15 v0.200 - Web UI polish, session summarise, prompt analyzer
- 2026-04-14 v0.194 - Repo selector on new session form
- 2026-04-13 v0.193 - Web sessions dashboard with history and resume
- 2026-04-10 v0.191 - Caveman prompts and cd approval
- 2026-04-09 v0.189 - Linked run configs and gitignore cleanup
- 2026-04-08 v0.187 - Position option for add-phase
- 2026-04-07 v0.186 - Backlog refinements and run command expansion
- 2026-04-06 v0.175 - Auto-pick single items and fd redirect matching
- 2026-04-05 v0.174 - SQLite backlog storage and search
- 2026-04-02 [project-switch] v0.15.2 - Error logging and argument handling fixes +1 ▸
- 2026-03-31 [assist] v0.169 - Permission system overhaul and backlog item linking
- 2026-03-31 [project-switch] v0.15 - History tracking and recent actions
- 2026-03-30 [assist] v0.158 - Backlog workflow polish and CLI aliases
- 2026-03-30 [project-switch] v0.14.2 - Reliable focus stealing on hotkey +1 ▸
- 2026-03-29 v0.14.1 - macOS support and focus handling
- 2026-03-29 [assist] v0.150 - Backlog orchestration and test coverage push
- 2026-03-28 [project-switch] v0.14 - Native UI launcher with egui
- 2026-03-28 [assist] v0.134 - Window screenshot capture command +1 ▸
