$ cat ./ideas/queue
Ideas
What I want to write, film or try next. Ideas grow out of the notes and the radar, and flow back in when they're done.
Queued (18)
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Front lever maths: why tall people suffer
Moment arms, body-mass distribution and why tuck to straddle to full is a torque progression.
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A platform roadmap for AI agents
What a golden path for shipping agents looks like: templates, evals, sandboxes, tracing and release/rollback by default.
experiment
Harness engineering a frontend repo
Wire tsc, ESLint, Vitest and Playwright in as feedback sensors for a coding agent and measure how much steering it saves.
explore
Watching the Games for gymnastics pacing
Break down how elite CrossFit athletes pace handstand push-ups and muscle-ups under fatigue, and what a calisthenics athlete can steal.
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Video: wall to freestanding handstand push-up
Film the HSPU line as I climb it: wall HSPU on parallettes, freestanding headstand push-ups, then the first freestanding rep.
experiment
Experiment: does strict press strength predict the HSPU?
Track strict press (relative to bodyweight) against handstand push-up progress for a few months and see how well one predicts the other.
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From a coloured spreadsheet to a skills library
How I turned the Overcoming Gravity progression chart I colour in by hand into the Lab's skill pages, and why a spreadsheet beat every training app.
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MCP or a CLI? An honest comparison
Expose the same capability to an agent as an MCP server and as a CLI with JSON output, and compare reliability, tokens and effort.
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Rust + Wasm for a dense live chart
Benchmark a canvas renderer for a high-frequency depth chart in plain TypeScript vs Rust compiled to WebAssembly.
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60fps under a firehose
Patterns for real-time UIs that stay smooth when the data doesn't: coalescing, transient state, canvas and workers.
explore
SSE vs WebSockets vs WebTransport in 2026
A practical guide to choosing a real-time transport now that WebTransport is Baseline.
explore
Tendons are slow learners
What tendon research suggests about short, frequent loading, and why my handstand improved with daily ten-minute sessions.
experiment
Tracing an agent with OpenTelemetry
Instrument a small agent with the GenAI semantic conventions and see what the traces reveal about cost, latency and failures.
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From vault to garden: publishing notes safely
The pipeline that turns private Obsidian notes into public evergreen pages, with a privacy filter and wikilink transform.
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Video: building a skill-tree feature with a coding agent
Screen-recorded session pairing with a coding agent on a real feature, showing the harness, the mistakes and the fixes.
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Video: the handstand is a control loop
A short video with slow-motion footage and overlaid force arrows showing finger and heel corrections, explained as a feedback loop.
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Video: my skills library in 60 seconds
A Short/Reel walking through my calisthenics skills library with clips of each progression unlocked.
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Where the weight goes: wrist load in handstands
What pressure-plate studies say about how the hand shares load, and what that means for wrist prep and hand position.
Drafting (2)
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Balance Is a Control Loop
What handstands teach about feedback, latency and backpressure: you never hold still, you correct small and early.
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My second brain has a librarian
How I run Obsidian with a coding agent as librarian: log freely, distil nightly, resurface on a schedule.
Published (7)
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Hypertrophy and Skill Phases: Build vs Harden Cycles
You can't push volume and skill at once. Platform roadmaps should alternate building capability with hardening it.
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You Can't Serve Two Masters
Specialise for a block. Why two or three goals at a time beats ten, in training and in engineering teams.
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Deloads Are Tech-Debt Sprints
Tendons adapt slower than muscles, and organisations adapt slower than code. Schedule recovery before the injury forces it.
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Golden paths and the Recommended Routine
Why the best developer platforms feel like a good beginner programme: opinionated, safe and easy to leave.
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Progressive Overload and Incremental Migration
Why the strangler fig works for the same reason strength programmes do: small, measurable increases you can recover from.
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SAID: Train for the Production You Actually Run
Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands. Your tests and staging only prepare you for what they simulate.
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Skill Trees as Platform Capability Maps
Draw a platform roadmap the way calisthenics apps draw skill trees: prerequisites, tiers and mastery, not a feature list.