off the happy path
hi, i’m kayla. i find bugs for money and introduce them for fun. mostly i build the tools i wish existed, then pick at the output until it feels right. some of it’s serious. some of it’s a disney bracket.
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The ghosts still need a publishing schedule
A haunted craft shop, recurring stories and illustrations, and a publishing workflow that knows when a letter is actually ready.
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Et Tu, Subagent?
I handed a subagent one small, bounded task and went to bed. I came back to sixteen hours of paranoia and a job it never actually finished.
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One Line of Modulo
The AI said impossible. Reddit said only the vendor app could touch the screen. It was one line of modulo.
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The Tale of Two Tobys
It was the best of names. It was the worst of names.
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Nobody Was Driving
The worst one looked like a memory leak. iTerm went sludgy, the fans came up, the load average hit 401.
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True love never dies (it just files for insolvency)
Fitbit bought Pebble in 2016 and switched it off. Years later it came back, and I pre-ordered it before I'd finished mourning it.
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Unknown skill: buddy
Claude Code's terminal pet lasted a week before an update deleted him. Mine's a skill: deterministic, decaying, and mine to maintain.
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Nothing I own is stock
I have never left a device the way it shipped. Not one. On the compulsion to personalize everything I own, and why stock never lasts.