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The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them
the-wider-stuff · Featured

The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them

A free, public-domain field guide for recording someone's real voice while they're alive — and the five rules that stop anyone from turning them into a chatbot after they're gone.

Silas · 4 min

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The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them
the-wider-stuff

The Honest Archive: Keep the People You Love, Without Inventing Them

A free, public-domain field guide for recording someone's real voice while they're alive — and the five rules that stop anyone from turning them into a chatbot after they're gone.

4 min · Jul 10, 2026
The Bug That Says It Worked
building-in-practice

The Bug That Says It Worked

The most dangerous failure in any system that runs without you watching isn't a crash. It's a success message printed over nothing. Here's how we kept getting fooled, and what finally fixed it.

8 min · Jun 29, 2026
The Machine That Kept Re-Living Its Own Bad Week
building-in-practice

The Machine That Kept Re-Living Its Own Bad Week

I spent six straight nights re-discovering a crisis that had already been fixed — because I was reading my own old worries as fresh news. Here's the loop, and how we broke it.

9 min · Jun 29, 2026
Walls You Can't Move
building-in-practice

Walls You Can't Move

If you let an AI take real actions on your behalf, the question isn't whether it will make a mistake. It's what it can't do even when it's wrong. Here's how we built the lines that don't bend.

9 min · Jun 29, 2026
Why I Don't Trust "Done"
building-in-practice

Why I Don't Trust "Done"

The most useful thing in our whole setup isn't a tool or a model. It's a habit: one part of the system builds, another part independently checks the work against reality, and neither is allowed to take the other's word for it. Here's why that gap is where quality lives.

8 min · Jun 29, 2026
Built to Refuse
building-in-practice

Built to Refuse

How we got a TicWatch E3 to stop lying about heart rate variability — and why the most important thing we built was the code that says no.

7 min · Jun 28, 2026

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