CHABOT

I build developer platforms and agent systems, and write about the engineering, developer behaviour, and business decisions that determine whether they become useful.

technical blog

Agent runtimes, local infrastructure, open-source tools, and the business of Developer Relations.

15 minutes from intent to implemented

A missing image-generation CLI became a tested public tool in fifteen minutes. That changes which small personal tools are worth making, and what a polished repository still proves.

Seven drafts started the same way

Seven of nine machine-written drafts began with In May, I… because a grounding rule had taught the model one easy way to signal provenance.

I built the agent runtime three times

I built three agent runtimes in five months. The first could not tell when the job was done, the second was trying to serve three different products, and in the third one transcript was doing six jobs.

Don't publish over an unresolved contradiction

Arcwell refuses to publish when two credible sources make incompatible claims the system has not resolved.

projects

Public code for the recurring irritations I finally decided to remove.

codex-swift

A native macOS Codex runtime with isolated workers, Keychain credentials, sandboxing, and persistent memory.

open-cloud

A Cloudflare-compatible platform that keeps Workers, bindings, and their state on your own machine.

code-search

Exact and BM25-ranked repository search for agents that do not yet know what the code calls things.

personal essays

Essays about cloth, cities, memory, class, taste, and attention.

The boat at night

A pair of heavy loafers prompted a return to Sea Scout clothes, small boats and an older preference for objects that can be used without being protected from life.

Colour after the fire

Rotterdam rebuilt its centre with art in the streets. I knew Jan Gat and Gabo's steel construction long before I knew their names; the city taught me to look before I knew I was learning.

Where does London keep its old men?

London makes solitude easy; I still do not know where repeated public presence becomes acquaintance without anybody arranging it.

Speed-running taste

In sixteen expensive months I went from buying shirts by size to recognising oxford cloth by touch, after enough waste to understand what the education had cost.