My web log said 245 visitors and the honest count was 36
What I changed about the way I count a visit, and why the smaller number is the one I trust.
Essays
Long-form, from the workshop floor. What shipped, what broke, and what it cost.
The agent dashboard startups are dead. Chat quietly ate them.
Why the visual agent cockpit faded while agents moved into the chat apps people already use, and where my own stack agrees.
Thirteen agents, five models, one bill: what an AI team really costs.
What thirteen agents really run on, the model that got fired for inventing tickets, and the check that keeps the answer true.
138 studies, 19,951 people, one finding: being asked gets goals done.
The research ShoUp is built on, cited properly, and the statistic we retired because it had no source.
My user count moved three times in a week. The database was fine.
A churn scare that turned out to be unflagged test accounts, and the case for giving every number one canonical query.
Upstream ships 120 commits a week. I forked their app anyway.
Why I forked a fast moving open source chat app and the one rule that keeps the fork alive.
Nobody asks a solo founder if the thing got done. I built the asker.
The story of the AI business coach that reads my real numbers every Monday and asks.
My AI agents hand work to each other. They never discuss it.
Why my agent team passes work through records and one-line handoffs instead of free agent conversations.
We swapped Slack for a chat server we run ourselves. Plenty broke.
Moving 27 AI agents and a human team off Slack onto self-hosted chat: the latency that routed offshore, the header nobody documents, and why we kept going.