Sidework: personal software and the people who build it
Agents are helping us finish our side projects. Sidework is a shelf for that personal software: a place to show what it does, share it, and find what other people build.
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Low-and-Slow Dutch Oven Pork Carnitas
Tender bone-in pork shoulder, dry-brined overnight and cooked gently with avocado oil, garlic, and orange. Serve straight from the pot or crisp in a skillet.
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Nine albums, from Fabolous in the golf ball picker cart and Jay-Z in my first car to The Weeknd on repeat in NYC.
mager-bench 1.2: useful code, fast runs
Three everyday coding tasks with difficult edge cases, 36 exact checks, and the lowest supported reasoning effort.
Pi 1.0
Always loved Pi. Congrats on 1.0!
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- Sidework: personal software and the people who build it
- Low-and-Slow Dutch Oven Pork Carnitas
- JLINC: Signed agreements and audit records for AI agents
- Chicken Tikka Masala with Chickpeas
- Homeport: a place for Codex to keep working
- Fine-tuning a small language model with Hugging Face TRL
- Diving into Impeccable: design verbs, slop detection, and learning to contribute
- My nine albums (2026)
- Perch: a private control center for my Mac mini
- Apple Cinnamon Bread
- Mars Cheese Castle
- mager-bench 1.2: useful code, fast runs
- Mood Shell: a small Rust prompt with themes you can share as Markdown
- Pi 1.0
- Pub/Sub for prxps
- Setting up my dot
- Building a Rust backend for the prxps RXP calculator
- OpenAI DevDay 2026 Keynote (FULL)
- mager-bench 1.1: make the model find the bug
- Running mager-bench through my ChatGPT subscription
- Jev: a decision model
- Instinct: a capable agent in your DMs
- Euglena Yogo Parfait
- GLM 5.3 vs. my raycaster, or: the benchmark fought back
- I benchmarked myself
- fx: a 6MB coding agent built to be embedded
- tmux: orchestrating agents with send-keys and capture-pane
- OpenSpec: The agreement layer that keeps your agent honest
- AI Gateway: the end of the single-provider AI subscription
- OpenCode CLI: ten commands worth knowing
- OpenCode Go + Buzz: killing Claude Code for a $10 harness
- Wayfinder: planning big work as a map of decisions
- Cherry Tomato Pasta
- mager-bench: the benchmark was measuring my token budget
- Opus 5 is the default now, and subagents can nest three deep
- Claude Is Unhobbled. Your Context Engineering Is Not.
- Buzz: what it looks like when agents get equal standing
- Meeting Boris
- Noah Kahan at Wrigley Field
- mager-bench: free models, thinking-token bugs, and traces
- mager-bench, now at bench.mager.co
- mager-bench: the doom challenge
- mager-bench: free first
- mager-bench
- Claude: from Skills to Agents to Subagents
- OpenRouter: The routing layer magerbot was missing
- mager-bench: a personal coding model benchmark
- Warp: The Cloud Factory, Now Running
- Skill Evals: grading the prompts you write, not just the outputs they produce
- skill-evals
- Claude Voice: an AI agent that talks back
- Eve: define your agent, deploy it, use it from anywhere
- Claude Skills vs Workflows: when Claude decides vs when you do
- Loooom v1.0
- Cacio e Pepe
- Kotsu: Designing a Logo by Inventing a Kanji
- Pride Postcard
- An OpenClaw setup for Dad
- Fenway Park
- Keeping an always-on agent alive across reboots
- Killing OpenClaw for a native Claude Code setup
- Loooom: Curated Skills for People Who Don't Code
- What Happened in AI in May 2026
- Japanese Butter Soy Spaghetti
- SkillOpt: gradient descent for your SKILL.md
- OpenHuman — an open-source agent harness that learns who you are
- What Karpathy's CLAUDE.md taught me about my own setup
- gbrain: Migrating My AI Brain From Flat Files to Semantic Memory
- My First Japanese Baseball Game: Hanshin Tigers in Osaka
- gbrain: We migrated our flat-file brain to a real memory system
- Sumo: My First Grand Tournament in Tokyo
- Claude: Anthropic just shipped most of OpenClaw
- Building a tiny local LLM starter for real projects
- The Compounding Agent: Why Hermes Is More Than Just a Pretty TUI
- Claude: How prompt caching actually works
- How I make tokens last longer
- Italian Sausage Dry-Rub
- DESIGN.md: Reverse Design Engineering for Portable Taste
- 10 Claude Code CLI flags you probably aren't using
- Garlic Cilantro Lime Rice
- OpenClaw: I Switched My Agent Stack from Claude to OpenAI Codex
- gstack: Garry Tan's Claude Setup Is 🔥
- Anthropic's Knowledge Work Plugins: The 10 Essential Tools for Modern Tech Teams
- Loooom: I Built a Skill to Teach Claude to Hear Music
- beatbrain: 3 Seconds to 200ms
- Kotsu: The Knack for Japanese
- autoresearch on Loooom: Teaching a Skill to Improve Itself
- DM your agent with Claude Code Channels
- Software Factory: The End Goal of Agentic Engineering
- prxps: I Let AI Analyze Every First-Round March Madness Matchup
- Corned Beef: The Dutch Oven St. Patrick's Day Braise
- Open SWE: Build Your Own Internal Coding Agent in 10 Minutes
- Banana Bread
- agency-agents: I Hired 145 AI Specialists to Run My Company
- autoresearch: Karpathy's Blueprint for Agents That Improve Themselves
- Claude Agent SDK: Build Your Own AI Terminal in 10 Minutes
- Loooom MCP: Let Any AI Discover and Install Skills Mid-Conversation
- OpenClaw: I Turned Three Shell Aliases Into a Real CLI Command
- OpenViking: The Open-Source Context Database Your Agents Have Been Waiting For
- Isaac Asimov's Three Laws: From Science Fiction to AI Alignment Crisis
- blog-seo: Audit Any Blog's SEO With a Claude Code Skill
- LangGraph: Build Stateful Multi-Agent Systems That Don't Crash
- DeepAgents: The Claude Code Alternative That Works With Any LLM
- Loooom: I Built It for the Bots
- How to Write, Eval, and Iterate on a Skill
- LangGraph + Claude Agent SDK: The Ultimate Guide to Multi-Agent Systems in 2026
- ME.md: robots.txt for human consciousness
- Build Your Own Agent Team with ACP
- OpenClaw: Meet Genny, My AI Life Architect
- Cauliflower Garlic Soup
- Golden Dutch Oven Chicken & Saffron Rice
- promptfoo: The Ultimate Guide to Unit Testing Your AI Prompts
- promptfoo: Rate Your Claude Code Skills Before Your Users Do
- I skipped Duolingo and built a Japanese tutor with Claude Code
- OpenClaw + Tailscale: Your Always-On AI Agent, Accessible from Anywhere
- brainpack: Move Your AI Agent's Entire Brain to a New Computer in 60 Seconds
- Building a Music Agent CLI with pi-mono
- Greek Chicken Casserole
- Spaghettio Sausage Soup
- I Turned My Design Taste Into a Claude Code Skill
- Moving Beyond the Prompt: How OpenClaw Actually Does the Work
- Chicken Cacciatore Casserole
- Green Chile Chicken Soup
- Green Curry Broccoli
- Chicken Enchilada Lasagna
- Building an AI Sports Betting Recommendation Engine with Gemma
- One-Pan Orzo with Spinach and Feta
- Broccoli Cheddar Soup
- Cottage Pie
- beatbrain: A Social Music Discovery App
- Slow-Cooked Pork Roast
- Coconut Curry Chicken Soup
- Chicken Pistachio Meatballs
- Chimayo Turkey Chili
- Roasted Spatchcocked Chicken
- Perfectly Seared Tomahawk Steak
- End Of Summer Grilled Zucchini Lasagna
- Dutch Oven Pulled Pork
- Meatballs
- Mac & Cheese
- Potatoes au Gratin
- Chicken Lemon Rice Soup
- Detox Chicken Soup
- Zuppa Toscana
- My visit to Valledolmo, Sicily
- Learning 25 programming languages in 25 days with Advent of Code
- Thanksgiving Stuffing
- Gardening: Year 1
- Building a coffee API with Go Fx and Firestore
- Rigatoni alla Vodka
- Thanksgiving Turkey
- Quarantine Chocolate Chip Cookies
- March 2020: What I'm Doing
- Hello World
- How I built a decentralized Ethereum app for the Super Bowl
- SimpleGeo, here I come
- Hello Ning!
- Farewell CNET
- My personal connection with Les Paul
- In 2009, I resolve to…
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