Welcome (or welcome back) to my occasional newsletter!

I'm going to be doing a bit of "building in the open" here as far as what will be in this, but it will broadly reflect my current interests/attention. Right now that means lots of AI, "vibecoding", and agents, but also NWSL, vintage (ie 60s-90s) menswear, art, and probably some food things.

Week to week (or month to month) there may be editions that are deeper or shallower technically, so hang in there if you identify on one side or the other of that spectrum. I'll try to flag where things land so its easy to see.

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Genetically identical twins do expeditions in 1924 heritage kit vs. modern gear. This one perfectly hit my venn diagram of vintage shopping and tech things, and also my daughters reading class learning about Earnest Shackleton.

How to make agent swarms actually work over very large codebases (file under letters from the frontier).. This was a really excellent deep dive on how to use tons of agents across a huge codebase, its pretty approachable even if you're medium technical.

Some Grass to Touch

NWSL is back. Sixteen teams this year, with new clubs in Boston and Denver. San Diego just signed hometown player Cat Macario away from Chelsea for a record contract. If you are anywhere near a home game, get yourself there, its the most joyful fan experience you can find.

Schedule | NWSLsoccer.com

Official match schedule for National Women's Soccer League

And since I can't resist, my favorite recap newsletter is Behind the Vaudevillian Cane's stats breakdown. Come for the pretty graphs, stay for the sassy narrative.

MONUMENTS at MOCA. If you're in or near LA before May 3rd, go. MOCA brought actual decommissioned Confederate monuments from Baltimore, Montgomery, Charlottesville, and Richmond, and put them alongside contemporary art. The LA Times called it the most significant exhibition in America right now. Two locations: Geffen Contemporary ($18) and The Brick (free). This show won't travel and won't happen again.

MONUMENTS • MOCA

Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. We are dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art.

🤖🤖 Pretty nerdy, but pretty interesting: Markdown as Agentic UI

Markdown as a Protocol for Agentic UI · Fabian Kübler

An AI assistant that builds reactive UIs mid-conversation — forms, streaming data, callbacks — using markdown code fences and a mount() UI primitive.

I've been obsessed with markdown forever, and for whatever constellation of reasons, LLMS are also obsessed with it. Recently I've found myself trying to use markdown in as many places as possible. This week I came across someone who went way further than I could have imagined.

He built an app where AI writes markdown (which it is already world class at), and within that markdown can also write code for fully running apps (think tiny dashboards, charts/graphs, etc.) The AI doesn't need to learn anything new — it just writes markdown the way it always has, and the system around it turns that into an interactive app.

It's very early and very prototypey, but feels like the future.

🤖🤖🤖 Incredibly nerdy: Beads - Project management for your agents

GitHub - steveyegge/beads: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent

Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. Contribute to steveyegge/beads development by creating an account on GitHub.

The surface level of beads will feel very familiar to anyone who's used any sort of software project management tool like Jira, or Linear (epics, tasks, dependency tracking). Underneath that surface is a little glimpse of our future.

The thing that beads affords thats the most interesting is cross agent coordination/collaboration. It mostly does this by using a database thats easy for agents to "pull" or "push" to and from wherever they're working. Handling this data asynchronously rather than trying to keep it all in sync is much cleaner and simpler (IMO) and unlocks massive scaling.