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latest posts
Notes, experiments, and write-ups. 7 published.
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DIY Public-Records Research
How to fact-check a story with free Canadian public records: lobbying registries, corporate filings, contracts, building permits, and the access-to-information trail. No paywall, and no press pass needed.
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Risk Has an Owner
A good AI procurement system moves the accountability line. It doesn't erase it. Notes from someone who does CAPEX procurement for a living.
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Data Center Water
How the data center industry uses water, wastes it, and what's changing.
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Hello, World
The first post on the redesigned site.
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OSS Maintainers Can Inject Their Standards Into Contributors' AI Tools
AI-assisted PRs keep landing with the wrong CSS framework and no tests because the contributor's tool never saw your project's standards. CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md put them in the tool's context before it writes a line.
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Claude Desktop Cowork Mode: VM Architecture Analysis
The complete technical reference behind the Cowork deep-dive: IPC APIs, refactored symbol mappings, telemetry events, VM image internals, and the full layered security architecture.
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Reverse Engineering Claude Desktop's Cowork Mode: A Deep Dive into VM Isolation and Linux Possibilities
Claude Desktop's Cowork mode only runs on macOS. I pointed Claude at the minified app to reverse engineer why, and found a lightweight Linux VM, layered sandboxing, and a real path to Linux support.