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drafts & ideas in public

Stubs

Things in flight. Some will become posts. Some won't.

drafting

  • The RSS ecosystem is so broken

    Why I have two full-stack projects and a whole data-mining setup pointed at feeds. RDF, HTTP headers, Cloudflare, Atom, timestamps, Postel's Rule — the whole broken standard. Applies to the softwareshould.work repo too.

    added 28 Jul 2026

planned

  • Carrion: a full post-mortem

    The promised deep dive (get it?) into Carrion — the heuristics for discovering feeds, the normalizers for YouTube/GitHub/Fediverse, the archive.org denormalization, and the journey from Python script to 16-tab async TUI to a BEAM app that had to be ported to scale.

    added 28 Jul 2026

idea

  • My YouTube queue-and-watch-later system

    The 'system for this, to be explained later' — how I defer videos without the debasing three-click save or the anxiety of a 5K-capped Watch Later I'll never revisit. Queues, watch, and the deferral machinery.

    added 28 Jul 2026