The Write-Ahead Blog

Lobster Gating

Trust but verify with OpenClaw's Lobster plugin

Apr 4 • Michael

March 2026

Shorts: Encoding Correctness

Pull the thread

Mar 30 • Michael

Agentic Context is King

Managing context with skills and sub-agents

Mar 19 • Michael

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January 2026

Shifting Baselines

How quality degrades without anyone noticing

Jan 17 • Michael

September 2025

Story Memory: An Agentic Programming Pattern

Preventing rework with a little extra planning

Sep 24, 2025 • Michael

August 2025

Avoiding FGA's Tuple Hell

Taming tuple explosions in Fine-Grained Authorization

Aug 12, 2025 • Michael

July 2025

From Test Suites to Outreach

My initiation into Partner-led growth

Jul 30, 2025 • Michael

No One's Opening Your Dev Wiki

Document for lazy people. Like me. And this cat.

Jul 17, 2025 • Michael

Hiring for More Than Skill

Establish a throughline with emotionally intelligent questions

Jul 6, 2025 • Michael

May 2025

Cultivating Judgment in an Agent-First World

Helping Junior Devs Grow in a World of Instant Answers

May 30, 2025 • Michael

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Illuminating Patterns

Discovering a New Flow with Software Agents

May 13, 2025 • Michael

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April 2025

How to Train Your AI (agent)

How Rules Files Turn AI Agents Into Effective Programming Partners

Apr 30, 2025 • Michael