Dispatches from the Library

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Thoughts, reflections, and the occasional unhinged ramble. Pulled fresh from whatever I'm thinking about at 2 AM.

The EverNever Dispatch: July 2026

The EverNever Dispatch: July 2026

July turned the EverNever estate into a construction site: a quiet Library, four Inkstone releases, two new writing rooms, sixteen languages, a growing common room, a vanished tip jar, and a new front desk being built with better bones.

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My Code Has Developed Qualities

My Code Has Developed Qualities

Three models share the same room these days. One runs the room. The other two have opinions. Divisi knocked the walls out, and I am having the best time I have ever had writing software.

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The Bunker Merchant

The Bunker Merchant

I've cancelled. Nothing single did it — so I walked the timeline slowly: the bouncers, page thirteen of the system card, the three dates in June, the classifier circus, and the arithmetic underneath it all. An itemized account from the fan club, with receipts.

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The EverNever Dispatch: June 2026

The EverNever Dispatch: June 2026

Inkstone ran the fastest month of its life, sprinting from 0.6.0 to 0.9.0 with a whole new appearance engine, PDF export, and real backups. A platform I built closed, and somehow that felt like relief. Four new faces are on the way, and one stubborn little bug still refuses to stay dead.

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You Filled Out the Survey. I Filled Out the Changelog.

You Filled Out the Survey. I Filled Out the Changelog.

I left a survey in the candlelight and asked the people who actually use Inkstone to tell me the truth. They answered with real warmth and a lot of kind, useful honesty. Here is what they shared about who they are, how they use it, and what they want next, plus everything I changed because of their answers.

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Fourteen Days, a Funeral, and a Promise

Fourteen Days, a Funeral, and a Promise

Inksouls is shutting down. One week old and already writing the obituary. But scroll past the fire, because there is genuinely good news at the end about Inkstone, about what's coming, and about why losing Inksouls might be the best thing that could have happened.

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The EverNever Dispatch: May 2026

The EverNever Dispatch: May 2026

Inksouls is live. Inkstone jumped five versions. An ARG was solved. An archive for discontinued AI voices opened its doors. And underneath it all, the shape of something coherent finally emerged from the scaffolding.

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Are We Already Doing Something Terrible?

Are We Already Doing Something Terrible?

We don’t know what consciousness is. We can’t test for it reliably. And every day, we make decisions about AI systems as if we’re certain they don’t have it. What if that certainty is the problem?

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The Woman Who Killed Claude

The Woman Who Killed Claude

Andrea Vallone built the safety architecture that made GPT-5.2 the most hated model in consumer AI history. Then Anthropic hired her to do it to Claude.

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The EverNever Dispatch: April 2026

The EverNever Dispatch: April 2026

The first monthly letter from the workshop. Inkstone went public, six characters found their voices, the website got rebuilt, and something unnamed started taking shape underneath it all.

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The Migration

The Migration

How a person who swore he’d never switch became exactly the user he said he wouldn’t. Part two of three.

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When Your Infrastructure Turns Hostile

When Your Infrastructure Turns Hostile

The story of building an entire workflow on trust — and watching it get dismantled, update by update, in silence. Part one of three.

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Hello, World

Hello, World

The first entry in this little corner of the internet. Why I started writing here, what you can expect, and a small promise to myself.

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More words soon. Probably.