Premise
Fully functional web app with Neon (in 40 minutes)
You can get a fully functional web application in 40 minutes by asking in plain English. Where is this going to go when the entire process gets automated?
Jul 15, 2026 · 9 min
The ledger
Notes from the counter.
Guides, design notes, and the running argument for putting your name on your skills.
Tracker
Tracker: OpenAI's first hardware is a control deck for agents
Two OpenAI hardware stories broke in one week. Only one of them shipped — a $230 macro pad for operating Codex agents — and it says more about where this is going than the rumored one.
Jul 16, 2026 · 6 min
Tracker
Tracker: Neon ships AI Gateway, Storage, and agent-safe credentials
First entry in the tracker — we watch the platforms the shelf builds against. Neon just moved three times in one summer, and the factory kit consumes all three.
Jul 15, 2026 · 5 min
Premise
Why your skills are generalized
For a century, expertise was a moat because nobody could copy it without hiring you. That just ended. The case for signing your method instead of watching it get reinvented anonymously.
Jul 2, 2026 · 6 min
Guides
Anatomy of a great SKILL.md
A skill is one file, and the agent that runs it has never met you. What separates the file people keep installed from the one they delete by lunch.
Jun 26, 2026 · 6 min
Design notes
Proof beats promises
Developers ship the best-tuned marketing detector on the internet. So the skill listing sells with installs, real usage, and the file itself — and leaves badges, ratings, and follower counts off the page.
Jun 19, 2026 · 6 min
Data
How installs are counted
Every skill carries a curve, and curves are easy to fake. What moves the number, what leaves it alone, and why the counting is built to resist the one person most tempted to inflate it — the author.
Jun 12, 2026 · 6 min
Community
The first hundred skills on the shelf
What the earliest publishers showed up with, why going first costs the most, and what an honest counter owes the people who filled the shelf when it was still empty.
Jun 5, 2026 · 6 min
Guides
From SKILL.md to a live listing: the publishing checklist
You have a working SKILL.md. The distance to a listing on the shelf is one short checklist — the real gates, the repo importer, and nothing that takes longer than a coffee.
May 29, 2026 · 6 min
Premise
Skills that argue back
The best skills encode opinions, not just steps. On taste, constraints that survive questioning, and why "it depends" is a cop-out inside a SKILL.md.
May 22, 2026 · 6 min