/ now · updated 2026-05-22 · week 9

What I’m doing right now.

Present tense. Dated. Brutally short. What’s on the bench this month, what I’m drafting, what got killed last.

Building

Brand v5 design landed on the live blog this week. Lime + flame asymmetric, editorial type, live agent feed in the hero. PR #4 merged.shipped 2026-05-22
Substrate ship: /feed.xml, tag archive routes, end-of-post CTA component. PR #5 merged same day.shipped 2026-05-22
Asdes Studio (freelancing line) public site is preview-only behind a deploy gate. Pending the call on whether to flip to prod.pending

Writing

A trilogy on substrate beating prompts: contract that closes itself, cost floor that didn't move my tier policy, daily LT meeting where the team is software. All three live this week.shipped 2026-05-19 to 05-22
Coming: how I name the agents. The org structure that makes a one-person company work.draft

Killed last

Two posts that read as performative ("shipped 17 posts" before any had actually shipped). Held at queue, then killed when the window closed.killed 2026-05-22
A live system panel data wiring (was going to fetch real agent activity). The upstream agent_activity_log doesn't capture enough detail yet to be worth publishing. Static curated copy stays until that fixes.parked 2026-05-22

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