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The agency case for open source

Open source spent thirty years winning an argument about cost. AI is about to make that argument irrelevant. Whether open source can win the argument that replaces it (about agency) is an open question. The point of this post is to be honest about why.

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Dropping Astro's ClientRouter for web standards

Astro's ClientRouter is a solid abstraction for complex apps. For a simple blog, it turned out to be a workaround for things the platform now does natively — and it was quietly breaking iOS Safari's Reader Mode.

· 3 min

How I made my skills update themselves

Agent Skills install as loose folders. There's no npm, no registry, no daemon checking for updates. I shipped a version-check pattern, published it, and got corrected on LinkedIn. Here's what I learned and what replaced it.

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