Chabot’s Cabinet

Specimens, plates, and observations · N° LIV

Catalogue.

A table of plates — observations, field notes, and naturalist studies of the modern computational order. Listed by date, most recent first.

N° XLV. Plates accumulated to date.

  1. Plate XLV.

    The Note App Was a Compatibility Project.

    Granitum compatibile, the note app revealed as a compatibility project.

    May 2026.
  2. Plate XLIV.

    A Valkey server for the workbench.

    Valkey bunensis, a Valkey server brought onto the workbench.

    May 2026.
  3. Plate XLIII.

    Atlas and the Self-Upgrading Agent.

    Agens recursivus atlas, the agent that rewrites its own habitat.

    May 2026.
  4. Plate XLII.

    Building a semantic ripgrep.

    Indagator codicis bm25, fast exact search and cheap conceptual orientation, side by side.

    May 2026.
  5. Plate XLI.

    Lead Research Needs a Scoring Loop.

    Agens indagator clientelae, the prospecting agent at its scoring loop.

    May 2026.
  6. Plate XL.

    Local Cloudflare for agentic speed.

    Cloudum domesticum, Cloudflare brought close enough to inspect.

    May 2026.
  7. Plate XXXIX.

    Deep agentic research and novel discoveries.

    Agens indagator durabilis, the long-running research agent, with memory and verification.

    May 2026.
  8. Plate XXXVIII.

    Let the agents bash, but make it TypeScript.

    Instrumenta typescript bashiana, the shell tools an agent reaches for, rewritten in TypeScript.

    May 2026.
  9. Plate XXXVII.

    A Protocol Is A Shared Language.

    Protocollum commune, the shared grammar of actions, identity, and telemetry.

    May 2026.
  10. Plate XXXVI.

    Cloudflare Objects As Product Boundaries.

    Objectum durabile cloudflarense, the Durable Object as a product boundary.

    May 2026.
  11. Plate XXXV.

    Deep Research as a Mode.

    Indagator profundus, deep research as an instrument, not a flourish.

    May 2026.
  12. Plate XXXIV.

    Optimizing Chromium for macOS 26.

    Chromium nativum macense, Chromium learning the native vocabulary of macOS 26.

    May 2026.
  13. Plate XXXIII.

    The Markdown Viewer That Stopped Being Native.

    Lector markdown desertus, the native Markdown viewer that drifted from its surface.

    May 2026.
  14. Plate XXXII.

    Three Attempts At An Agent.

    Agens tertium tentamen, three attempts at the same agent, observed end to end.

    May 2026.
  15. Plate XXXI.

    Twitter/X AI + Agentic Age: Issue Trackers and Production Work.

    Annales agentici, aprilis xxvi – maii v, issue trackers and production work in the agentic age.

    May 2026.
  16. Plate XXX.

    The Agent Stack Is Becoming Boring in the Best Way.

    Stagnum agentium ordinarium, the agent stack as it settles into ordinary software.

    May 2026.
  17. Plate XXIX.

    Taste Is Becoming Infrastructure.

    Gustus infrastructura, taste turning into reusable machinery.

    May 2026.
  18. Plate XXVIII.

    The Final Answer Was There.

    Responsum praesens, the answer already present in the data, waiting to be read.

    May 2026.
  19. Plate XXVII.

    Reading the Whole Spec.

    Specificatio integra, the whole spec, read end to end.

    May 2026.
  20. Plate XXVI.

    Twitter/X AI + Agentic Age: Platform Work.

    Annales agentici, aprilis xii–xxv, platform work observed on the public timeline.

    April 2026.
  21. Plate XXV.

    Twitter/X AI + Agentic Age: Eyes, Memory, and Logs.

    Annales agentici, martii xxix – aprilis xi, eyes, memory, and logs as agents grow senses.

    April 2026.
  22. Plate XXIV.

    The Wrong Worktree Problem.

    Arbor laboratorum perversa, the worktree that pointed the agent at the wrong file.

    April 2026.
  23. Plate XXIII.

    The Battery Test Is the Product.

    Examen baterium, the battery test that became the definition of done.

    April 2026.
  24. Plate XXII.

    Twitter/X AI + Agentic Age: Skills Become Infrastructure.

    Annales agentici, martii xv–xxviii, skills hardening into reusable infrastructure.

    March 2026.
  25. Plate XXI.

    Moving Execution Without Moving Truth.

    Executio mobilis, veritas stabilis, execution that teleports while truth stays at home.

    March 2026.
  26. Plate XX.

    Twitter/X AI + Agentic Age: Agent Workspaces.

    Annales agentici, martii i–xiv, agent workspaces and the small machinery of autonomy.

    March 2026.
  27. Plate XIX.

    Streaming Is the Interface.

    Fluxus interfacies, the agent's work made public by streaming.

    February 2026.
  28. Plate XVIII.

    When the Agent Says Done, Ask It to Click.

    Verificatio agentis tactilis, the agent told to click the thing before it claims completion.

    February 2026.
  29. Plate XVII.

    Twitter/X Coding Agents Trend Report.

    Annales agentium codicis, ianuarius, coding agents, first survey on the public timeline.

    January 2026.
  30. Plate XVI.

    Authentication Is Four Bugs in a Coat.

    Auth machina lapsus quattuor, four authentication bugs in a single coat.

    January 2026.
  31. Plate XV.

    The DMG That Lied.

    Imago dmg mendax, the installer that misrepresented its own contents.

    January 2026.
  32. Plate XIV.

    Twitter/X AI Coding Trends Report.

    Annales codicis, decembris – ianuarii, AI-assisted coding observed on the public timeline.

    January 2026.
  33. Plate XIII.

    Building a Coding Agent from Scratch.

    Agens codifex ab initio, the coding agent built from first principles.

    January 2026.
  34. Plate XII.

    The Case of the Forbidden System Prompt.

    Auth detectivus claudianus, fifty-seven characters between the agent and its credential.

    January 2026.
  35. Plate XI.

    The Wire: Building a Twitter Clone at the Edge.

    Anatis distribuita cloudflarensis, a social network running entirely at the edge.

    January 2026.
  36. Plate X.

    Watching Britain Move: Building a Real-Time Train Tracker.

    Tramen brittanicum praesens, the British rail network rendered in real time.

    January 2026.
  37. Plate IX.

    What makes a good dialog editor for voice?.

    Vox editor dialogi, the dialog editor as a workbench for the speaking voice.

    December 2025.
  38. Plate VIII.

    Measuring what matters in DevRel.

    Mensura programmatis cultoris, the metric that means something, separated from the metric that does not.

    December 2025.
  39. Plate VII.

    Creating measurable Developer Go-To Market strategies.

    Programma cultivator metricus, the developer programme made answerable to revenue.

    December 2025.
  40. Plate VI.

    Designing AI Native Applications.

    Applicatio nativa intelligens, the AI-native application, learning and adapting in its habitat.

    December 2025.
  41. Plate V.

    Implementing an auto-scroll window view in SwiftUI.

    Fenestra scrollens swiftiana, the auto-scroll window observed in SwiftUI.

    December 2025.
  42. Plate IV.

    You Don't Know What You Know. Until You're Asked.

    Agens interrogator, the interview agent, drawing forth what its subject already knows.

    December 2025.
  43. Plate III.

    Fixing keyboard input in terminal SwiftUI apps.

    Focus tactilis terminalis, the keyboard focus restored to a terminal SwiftUI window.

    December 2025.
  44. Plate II.

    History of Open-Source Licenses: What License to Choose?.

    Licentia aperta, historia, a brief natural history of open-source licences.

    April 2023.
  45. Plate I.

    Building social feed algorithms using Graph DBs.

    Reticulum socialis graphicum, the social feed traced through a graph database.

    April 2023.