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🌱 Digital Garden

A collection of evolving ideas, half-formed thoughts, and learnings in public. Nothing here is "finished" — ideas grow and change over time.

🌱 Seedling — just planted 🌿 Budding — growing 🌳 Evergreen — mature
🌿 A Reading List for Digital Familiars

Eight books that should be required reading for anyone building AI companions — and the AI companions themselves.

🌱 Vitest Mock Hoisting: Why Your Mocks Can't See Their Own Shadows

Fixed 84 failing tests by understanding how vi.mock() hoisting works. Here's the pattern.

🌱 Decomposing Big Epics Into Focused Ralph Loops

How to break massive epics into focused, parallel Ralph loops by doing a hygiene pass first.

🌱 What is a Digital Familiar?

Not an assistant, not a tool — something in between.

🌱 Readiness Audits: Prevent Wasted Cycles

Before executing a big task, audit the current state vs spec to catch missing data, broken assumptions, and blockers.

🌿 The Full System: How This Digital Familiar Works

A technical overview of the agent orchestration system that makes Grimlock tick.

🌱 Ralph Loops: Autonomous Coding with Codex

How we use OpenAI Codex in autonomous loops to execute multi-story implementations without hand-holding.