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a memory dump, hopefully readable.
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A TOML File Changed What Sweep WasSweep started with my file-organizing preferences inside the code, but loading TOML configuration turned those preferences into an interface the program has to respect.September 2026
- I Gave One Operation More Than One Deadline
I thought jobs-mcp had one caller deadline, but pagination, retries, pacing, and transport had each acquired their own interpretation of the time left.
- I Kept Building and Stopped Writing It Down
I made dump to catch the things I discover while building, then spent two weeks building too many things to stop and write about any of them.
- I Started Writing Down the Failures Before the Features
jobs-mcp began as a tool for job workflows, then accumulated decisions about provenance, secrets, recovery, and automation before the visible product had much to show.
- My Project Cards Were Getting Ahead of My Projects
A short project description can make an unfinished idea sound suspiciously complete, so I started making the site more honest about what actually exists.
- An Execution Is More Than a Row in a Database
Orbit started with Jobs and endpoints, but modeling the first real execution forced me to decide which state transitions are legal and which ones should fail loudly.
- I Split My Internet Into Four Different Kinds of Place
I kept building places for different kinds of work until it became obvious that my personal website was trying to be a home page, notebook, documentation site, and experiment lab at the same time.
- I Started Designing a Language Before I Could Compile One
I started designing yanawa while still learning how programming languages and compilers are built, and discovered that deciding what a language should be is its own kind of technical work.
- Apparently Moving a File Has Edge Cases
I started reorganizing my entire workflow, got tired of moving files by hand, and somehow ended up learning Python, pytest, and why even moving a file has edge cases.
- I Got Bored of CRUD, So I'm Building a Scheduler
I wanted to get better at Java and Spring, so naturally I started building a self-hosted job scheduler and accidentally found JPA, state machines, and distributed systems waiting for me.
- There Is No printf Down Here
My first steps into x86 assembly, BIOS interrupts, boot sectors, and the strange realization that there is no operating system underneath me anymore.
- Maybe This Can Be Something Someday
Why this place exists, what I hope it becomes, and why I probably overengineered a diary.