empty Monday mornings.
it's all radiator clicks.
shout to my echo
as I sort through returns.
ordering is just a guide;
today I sneak Le Guin
into the non-fiction section.

The boy waits, late as ever.
Hears distant chorus, warm,
unknowable behind frosted glass.
Shapes sway through the door, a suggestion.

When the last rain falls
and weary plains crack under
the sun we forsook,
we'll laugh in our perfect grief,
entwined and wilting as one.

Every craft form is a new way of seeing. A method of producing new thoughts.

used to be fairly extreme about separation of concerns in my React code. A smart component file for logic. A dumb component file for rendering. A styled-components file for styles. An index file to tie them together. Four files per component, minimum.

It made each individual file very readable. You could generally fit one on a screen. If you needed to understand the render logic, you opened one file. If you needed the business logic, you opened another. The mental overhead of jumping between co-located files was low.

A postcolonial reading of Yeats' "The Realists".

HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?

— W. B. Yeats, Responsibilities (1914)

In 1528, the Welser banking family of Augsburg struck a deal with Emperor Charles V: in exchange for debts the Emperor couldn't repay, they'd receive the Province of Venezuela to colonise and exploit. They called it Klein-Venedig, Little Venice. It lasted eighteen years, and it's one of the most instructive failures in colonial history.

I awoke in an atrium hurtling through a dark abyss. The beautiful terrazzo floor, embedded with blue like sapphires, shook beneath my feet, quaking, groaning, screeching.

Claude Code's skills system is genuinely impressive. You can package domain expertise, best practices, and specialised workflows into reusable modules that extend what Claude can do. The architecture is elegant. The potential is huge.

There's just one problem: Claude barely uses them.