
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.
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The definition of “overwhelm” is pretty intense, actually. It means:
– bury or drown beneath a huge mass
– defeat completely
– give too much of a thing to someone
When you’re feeling buried under a mass of so much stuff, and you feel as if you’ve been given too much of a thing, it can feel as if you’re responsible for everything in the whole world. But it is liberating when you step back and get clarity about the things that ONLY YOU can do.

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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