Roger StringerChris Coyier:
There is no bar for the quality of a blog post. Allow me to be an example. See… every blog post on this entire site. I’d like to write better individual blog posts, but something has always compelled me to punt out a thought early rather than wait until I have some perfect way to present it. And for the record, I don’t mind reading your posts like that either. We’re not shootin’ for the Pulitzer over here mmkay.
Why do people have a hard time with that publish button, even on ready-to-rock personal sites?
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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Saying "done" costs a model nothing, which means it carries no information. A definition of done has four machine-checkable parts: source boundaries, acceptance criteria written as observations, verification commands the agent does not own, and a list of claims it must refuse to make without evidence.
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