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Observability is not for debugging your code logic. Observability is for figuring out where in your systems to find the code you need to debug. 

Should I have tacos in 2026?

Last week I was at a work retreat in San Diego, California. We were given four options as to which non-work activity we would like to join. There was a “Tacos and Tequila” walk, a katamaran trip, an ocean kayaking trip, and a slot canyon hike. I chose the slot canyon hike because first of all it would be fewer people and I knew a week of socializing would be quite exhausting for my poor nervous system, and secondly, I looked up the wrong fucking hike and thought I was getting into a chill, easy-going, nature hike.

Long story short. I was very wrong. I had to sign a waver. Our guide gave us gear. It was definitely on the very challenging side. Had I known, I would not have done it, but I am so glad I did. Feeling quite chuffed.

Our guide took some pictures for us (as we were a bit focused on not falling 70 feet into the canyon slots).

The video projection effect is excellent this whole video is amazing.

Watching Director’s Label, Volume 3: The Work of Director Michel Gondry. Lots of memories of watching MTV, of dancing around the living room with friends, and just having so much fun. Music videos are just so fucking cool. This song in particular has a soft spot for me, so many friday night dance parties at friends houses and this song would just be the jam.

I want every room I spend time in to look and feel like this video.

More insane work by Michel Gondry.

Insane work by Michel Gondry.

Something I have been noodling on is how to integrate AI in ways that can help alleviate some of the burden of running your small business as the sole person responsible for all of the business operation. When you have to be sales, marketing, and admin, it leaves less time for doing the work that made you want to run the business in the first place. I don’t think you can eliminate or entirely abstract away all of those roles, but you can extend your capabilities. AI being the great equalizer of mediocrity means, at the very least, you have the ability to get a decent baseline of service for say, web marketing initiatives, that you simply wouldn’t necessarily have had the time for before.

I tinkered with a plugin for Claude over the weekend that acts as a mini “Web Marketing Agency”. Very simply there is a director role that acts as orchestration and final say, with sub agents for various specific roles such as CRO, Copywriter, Growth, SEO, Strategy, with an adversary type role to push back on assumptions, find gaps, and iterate back and forth with the subagent until there is consensus. If consensus cannot be found, the Director takes over and acts as final arbiter to ensure the plan aligns with bigger picture goals and such. The end result is a plan for executing some web marketing initiative.

The few tests I have run have been pretty good, if maybe a bit verbose. Nothing that cannot be fine tuned.

To take this a step further would be to hand off the plan to content and developer subagents to actually implement on a website, then hand off for approval and revisions by a human.