Notes
Journal entries, quotes I keep, articles and essays.
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-11Today the Lab got its third experiment: The Focus Reader.
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-11The third batch I mentioned yesterday ran this morning. Until now the system only looked forward: each pass read what the feeds had published over the last couple of weeks, and…
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-10Until now, the system moved when I asked it to. I would start a pass, it would gather what had come in, sort it, write its notes and a review, and I would read the result. Today it…
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-09Today I read the first two reviews of my personal knowledge base, on the page I built for them.
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-09Today the Lab got its second experiment: The Scenes.
- ArticleA visual direction, one piece at a timeHow this site found its look between October and November, told as a method. Collect first, read and sort on a shared canvas with AI, put words on it, then focus and build one piece at a time.
- Quote
Using AI tools is not an entitlement to elevated craft. The output is only as good as the person providing the input.
David Hoang · proofofconcept.pub - JournalLogbook 2026-11-08Today the Lab opened, with a first experiment: The Dice.
- ArticleAgents, a proxy to almost anything?Sundar Pichai says there's no going back once you get the taste of agents. What I understood in that moment, for me and for someone close to me.
- Quote
I do think agents are going to be a fundamental part of how we work. […] Once you get the taste of using something like that and the superpower that comes with it, there is no going back.
Sundar Pichai · Google I/O 2026 - JournalLogbook 2026-11-06Today the site got its slides: a theme for reveal.js and a set of templates to start a deck from.
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-05Today the site published its first article, Threads since 2021.
- ArticleThreads since 2021Rereading what I wrote on cmdncmds in 2021, I found many of the threads I'm pulling today, and saw logging everything go from a dormant load to an asset.
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-05Today I wrote down how I write.
- Quote
Code review was always meant as a verification step: does the code produce the outcome we want? But it’s a hard question to answer, so we started asking an easier one instead: is this good code?
Matt Ström-Awn · mattstromawn.com - JournalLogbook 2026-11-04Reading the reviews had become the weak spot. Each one is a Markdown file, and even in a good preview, a page with quotes, links to notes and sections to weigh doesn't make for…
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-03Today a quote turned into a way of working.
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-03Today I went back over everything I had saved on LinkedIn in the last six months and sent it to the knowledge base by hand, post by post, the way I send any link I want it to read.…
- Quote
We talk a lot about better prompting, better models, better workflows, and better agents. We talk less about the moments when we should slow down—because that’s uncomfortable and hard.
Katie Parrott · every.to - JournalLogbook 2026-11-02Today the site got a Feed.
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-02Today I opened another drawer: DEVONthink, where I used to clip things before this knowledge base existed. Years of saves came in at once, articles I had kept, a design-systems…
- Quote
It doesn't get easier, you just get faster.
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net - JournalLogbook 2026-11-01Today I sent a single link to the knowledge base: a video, nothing else in the message. It raised two questions at once.
- JournalLogbook 2026-11-01Today the site went live.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-31Today I went back over the first review. The change is small, but it matters to me.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-31A quieter day. Email forwarding for the new domain is set up: everything turned green, and the first test message reached my personal inbox.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-30Today the system sorted the whole first batch, wrote its first notes and its first review.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-30Today the identity started turning into a website.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-29Today the backlog actually went through. More than a hundred Safari tabs, a first handful of feeds and about sixty newsletters turned into sources the system can read, sort and…
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-28Today I handed over my backlog.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-27On the second day, before the system had processed anything real, I decided to write about it.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-26I've wanted a knowledge base that works for me for a long time. This is the story of how that idea finally started to become real.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-23This morning was all about the mascot: four cells in a square.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-22Today I came back to the canvas after a few days away. I was very much a fan of the new direction, and I left comments all over it to push it further.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-17Past midnight, right after "Relevé", I took a different turn: no more elk. I wanted to work with rectangular shapes that can hold symbols, starting from a page of my notebook where…
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-16Today I answered the three directions, and by the evening I had asked to start over.
- JournalLogbook 2026-10-10Today I started working on the brand of my personal website. The site itself would come later: a place to publish notes and articles, show some work and experiments, and say what…