Now

A living page. What has my attention this week, and nothing else.

Last measured 2026-07-19

This one is hand-set, unlike the ledger on the front page. If it goes stale, that is on me.

Building

The correspondent layer at Superpowr — voice and email, model routing, and reading far more hiring-compliance law than I expected to.

On my own time: a private assistant that answers a phone, and the safety layer around it. It got interesting when I stopped treating the constraints as overhead and started treating them as the product.

Fixing

An interrupt path that fires too eagerly — background noise cuts the agent off mid-word. It’s instrumented and I have a pre-registered decision rule: if the drift is positive it’s a pacing problem, if drift is near zero and the turns read INTERRUPTED it needs an echo guard. One call decides it. I’m not guessing at it before then.

Learning

That most of my hard bugs were observability problems wearing a costume. The audio issue was invisible for two calls because stdout was block-buffered. The SSH “outage” was three weeks of the wrong username. Now I fix the reason a thing was hard to see before I fix the thing.

Inspired by the /now page movement.