FIG. 00 — MASTHEAD
Chris
Chabot
Building developer ecosystems,
one API at a time.
FIG. 02 — CURRENTLY
BUILDING — MAESTRO @ IGENT AI
READING — MIDDLEMARCH
WALKING — LONDON, REGENT'S CANAL
ON DEVELOPER RELATIONS
Measure the work that changes outcomes.
A field note on the difference between visible activity and meaningful progress in the life of a developer programme.
The scoreboard is always near. Numbers flicker. Charts climb. Dashboards shine. But the real game is elsewhere — in the small, unseen decisions: a clearer getting started, a helpful example, a nudge at the right time, a trust earned over the long haul.
05
WRITING
INDEX
Cloudflare Objects As Product Boundaries
What a Cloudflare-native agent runtime experiment taught me about Durable Objects, Workers, R2, queues, workflows, sockets, and state that survives.
A Protocol Is A Shared Language
Why a service network needed one grammar for actions, identity, capabilities, streams, telemetry, and external adapters.
Optimizing Chromium for macOS 26
A field note on macOS 26 native optimization work: launch paths, Metal timing, input latency, cache I/O, power scheduling, and the uncomfortable discipline of proving what only compiles.
The Markdown Viewer That Stopped Being Native
A field note on SwiftUI, Tauri, WKWebView, lazy Markdown extensions, and the uncomfortable discovery that the faster path was the hybrid one.
Three Attempts At An Agent
A travel journal through three private agent case studies: from local workbench, to edge runtime, to durable live event kernel.
Twitter/X AI + Agentic Age: Issue Trackers and Production Work
The final March-to-May field report tracks Symphony, clawsweeper, multi-agent Kanban, Codex goal persistence, deepsec, and the strange arrival of agents as commercial actors.
FIG. 03 — STUDIES IN MATERIAL. LONDON, MARCH 2026.
Photographed in London, March 2026.
PG. 07
“It is turtles all the way down, as they say, but the exercise proves more illuminating than recursive.
— FROM ‘BUILDING A CODING AGENT FROM SCRATCH’
FIG. 04 — AGENT ORCHESTRATION. AFTER A MID-CENTURY DIAGRAM.
09 SELECTED PROJECTS ✣
Modular Foundations
A reference architecture for scalable developer platforms — composable, observable, and built to scale without compromise.
Field Notes System
A personal system for collecting, connecting, and retrieving ideas from walks, sketches, and long-form thinking.
Agent Orchestration Kit
A lightweight toolkit for building reliable agent loops with tools, memory, and evaluation.
Coastlines & Contours
Maps and measurements from coastal walks — recording shorelines, connections, and small observations.