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Thoughts on Christian Voluntarism, technology, and personal growth
Guarding the Way
NEAR AI's IronClaw has 74 crates, 95 active contributors, and a capability-based security architecture. I have a side project and three kids. So I traced where a model's tool call actually goes in their shipping binary. The new engine ships behind an env flag that defaults to off. The capability lease guarding execution derives Clone and Deserialize. Here's why agent runtime security belongs in the type system, and five questions to ask any runtime before you trust it.
The Best Code I Wrote Was the Code I Deleted
Five hours with Claude trying to build testcontainer pooling for Rust. A deadpool implementation that saved nothing. 200 lines of daemon architecture. Then Claude offhandedly mentioned the reusable-containers feature it knew about all along. CI dropped from 7m30s to 5m30s. AI assistants follow your framing. Frame the problem wrong, and they'll efficiently help you build the wrong solution.
Almost Building a Production Microblog in One Weekend: The Receipts
Most people claim they built something with AI. Few show the receipts. Here's what it actually looks like to build a full-stack microblog with AI assistance, complete with git commits, test coverage, and honest reflections on what worked and what didn't.