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Field notes from the way back

Weekly essays on relearning the craft, working alongside AI, and shipping again after years away.

All Security Workflow

Split scene: on the left an orange puppet works on a laptop in a bright, tidy home; on the right a purple hooded puppet hunches over a laptop in a dark room.

SECURITY FEATURED

Your AI Coding Agent Should Not Run as You

Give the agent its own macOS user, so a bad rm -rf can only delete files in a throwaway account, not your own.

Phil·Jul 18, 2026·2 min

Four-step flow diagram: Idea, Specification, Implementation, Test, connected by arrows.

WORKFLOW

One Issue, One Agent, One Afternoon: A Starter Agentic Workflow

A simple agentic workflow to get started with autonomous software development: write a rough GitHub issue, let the agent turn it into a real spec, then let it build. Requires an AI subscription and minimal tooling

Phil·Jul 4, 2026·5 min