Dev Log 46: 2026-03-07
Announcing Fanfiction.lol: A Manifesto on Human Creativity and AO3
I deployed my own AO3 fork called fanfiction.lol, an independent fanfiction archive with no invite queue, fandom-agnostic moderation, and expanded content warnings. A manifesto on why fan communities deserve free infrastructure, the history of transformative works from Virgil to AO3, and the challenges of running a volunteer-powered archive at scale.
Ryan Singer on Twitter / X
A friend of mine needs software that is too high-stakes to vibe-code. I ended up giving him a primer on how to make progress on his idea before he hires a developer.Most of my friends on X are software devs, but I'm sharing this for anyone who's not. https://t.co/V1y2WagDnv— Ryan Singer (@rjs) September 25, 2026
Atmospheric Automated Development
Marking a piece of feedback 'planned' kicks off an autonomous coding agent that implements it and opens a draft PR. Built with userinput.app, airglow, and GitHub Actions, without touching the app.
Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
Bobby Grayson - Deciduous
Software Is Made Between Commits
From the Zed Blog: Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it.
Software Should Be Allowed to Be Weird - Ewan’s Blog
A fairly large amount of the software I write would probably die in a corporate planning meeting. There would be questions about the target audience, the bu…
Favourite well-made apps and sites – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
"Design, Composition, and Performance" by Rich Hickey (2013)
"Design, Composition, and Performance" by Rich Hickey (2013)
Software Survival 3.0
I spent a lot of time writing software with AI last year, and I had some pretty good successes, notably Beads and Gas Town. I wrote a whole…
