Chris Chabot.
Building developer ecosystems,
one API at a time.
FIG. 02 — CURRENTLY
BUILDING — MAESTRO @ IGENT AI
READING — MIDDLEMARCH
WALKING — LONDON, REGENT'S CANAL
ON DEVELOPER RELATIONS
Measure the work that changes outcomes.
A field note on the difference between visible activity and meaningful progress in the life of a developer programme.
The scoreboard is always near. Numbers flicker. Charts climb. Dashboards shine. But the real game is elsewhere — in the small, unseen decisions: a clearer getting started, a helpful example, a nudge at the right time, a trust earned over the long haul.
05
WRITING
INDEX
The Note App Was a Compatibility Project
A field note on Granite, plain Markdown, local files, and the inconvenient amount of product hidden inside the phrase Obsidian-compatible.
A Valkey server for the workbench
A field note on valkey-bun, local infrastructure, and the usefulness of an in-memory service that knows exactly when to forget.
Atlas and the Self-Upgrading Agent
A field note on letting an agent add new capabilities to itself by checking out its own repo, changing code, testing, deploying, monitoring, and rolling back when reality objects.
Lead Research Needs a Scoring Loop
A practical note on using agents to qualify prospects with source trails, scoring rubrics, disqualifiers, and market-level feedback.
Building a semantic ripgrep
A practical note on code-search, BM25 ranking, and why coding agents need both fast exact search and cheap conceptual orientation.
Local Cloudflare for agentic speed
A practical note on open-cloud, local Cloudflare-compatible services, and why coding agents get faster when state is close enough to inspect.
FIG. 03 — STUDIES IN MATERIAL. LONDON, MARCH 2026.
Photographed in London, March 2026.
PG. 07
“It is turtles all the way down, as they say, but the exercise proves more illuminating than recursive.
— FROM ‘BUILDING A CODING AGENT FROM SCRATCH’
FIG. 04 — AGENT ORCHESTRATION. PEN-AND-INK PROCESS STUDY.
09 SELECTED PROJECTS ✣
Modular Foundations
A reference architecture for scalable developer platforms — composable, observable, and built to scale without compromise.
Field Notes System
A personal system for collecting, connecting, and retrieving ideas from walks, sketches, and long-form thinking.
Agent Orchestration Kit
A lightweight toolkit for building reliable agent loops with tools, memory, and evaluation.
Coastlines & Contours
Maps and measurements from coastal walks — recording shorelines, connections, and small observations.