
Migrating this site to EmDash
This site has changed CMS more times than I can count since 2003. This time I moved to EmDash on Cloudflare, and the reason is that most of my building now happens alongside an AI agent.
Read moreThis site has been around since 2003, and has been on various platforms, and has had many redesigns.
For the past two years, it's been using Directus as a headless CMS, and has been built in Astro and hosted on vercel for the past year.
This latest redesign is still in Astro, hosted on Vercel and using Directus as a headless CMS, so not much changed in that regard.
But what did change:

This site has changed CMS more times than I can count since 2003. This time I moved to EmDash on Cloudflare, and the reason is that most of my building now happens alongside an AI agent.
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I wanted a simple dashboard that showed me events as they happened, so I wrote a quick little Astro app. It grew into Get Butters: a real-time event feed with a REST API, a CLI, insight cards and push alerts.
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Once four agents can edit the same repo, architecture stops being the hard problem and coordination starts. The five roles I run and what each one is forbidden to touch, why every handoff goes through a file, a worktree script so agents stop racing, and the failure modes worth naming.
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