Automation

Obsidian CLI

The Obsidian CLI is here and it’s genuinely exciting for anyone doing open project management. Being able to script vault operations, trigger note creation, and automate workflows from the command line — without touching the GUI — opens up a whole new world of integration possibilities.

Beads and Gas Town: The Evolution of Coding Agent Memory

The landscape of AI coding assistants is evolving rapidly, and two recent developments from Steve Yegge are particularly interesting: Beads and Gas Town. These innovations address one of the fundamental challenges facing coding agents today: maintaining context and memory across sessions.

Ironies of Automation

Lisanne Bainbridge's 1983 paper 'Ironies of Automation', hosted with commentary, argues that automating a process does not remove its difficulties but shifts them onto the human operators left to handle the remaining exceptions.

Screenshot-a-Day

S.A.D. 😩 You can’t automate a SLO for look and feel. Or can you? Screenshot-a-day service. takes a screen shot every n units of time and adds a frame to a gif which you can host.

Ironcove Solutions Orchestration Engine

Diagram of the Ironcove onboarding orchestration workflow

Workforce Onboarding: A Case Study of Ironcove Solutions’ Orchestration Engine I was hired by Ironcove Solutions to lead product development for a new application they were developing called the Orchestration Engine, an application designed to streamline workforce onboarding processes. We collaborated closely with the team from Ironcove Solutions to bring their vision to life.

Github Action to Create New Content in Hugo

This is what it looks like I use Hugo a lot for my web development work, and I think it is pretty great. The one problem with it for many non-technical people I work with is that there is no CMS feature, they want a website administration page where they can do the usual.