Writing
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My Claude Wishlist
I use Claude for intellectual work: developing arguments across sessions, stress-testing ideas, writing essays, and building software. It’s the most productive working relationship I’ve had with a tool — and I keep running into the same wall.
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Not Yet
'Not yet' is not a reassurance. It's a diagnosis. Anthropic's own research shows a 14% drop in job-finding rates for young workers in AI-exposed fields. The data says the displacement hasn't hit yet. The structure says it's already underway. I grew up inside that gap in Gelsenkirchen — I know what it looks like when 'not yet' becomes 'too late.'
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Beyond the Black Box
How Markdown's marked extension API turned five verbose YAML sections into one clean component — and why I never noticed the capability was there all along.
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The Boats That Found Me
The stadium form came from Gelsenkirchen — from Schalke, from the industrial geometry of the Ruhrpott. But another shape found me in California, and it came from the water.
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The Shapes That Stay
In "The Other Side of Things," I wrote about returning to art-making after a ten-year hiatus. What surprised me is that some things apparently never left.
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From Metalsmith to Eleventy - SEO Without External Dependencies
Implementing SEO for a bilingual Eleventy site using templates instead of plugins—covering meta tags, Open Graph, hreflang, JSON-LD structured data, and sitemaps.
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The Corporate Benevolence Fantasy
The promise that AI will make everything cheaper rests on one assumption — that corporations will pass their savings to consumers. The forty-year productivity-pay gap says they won't. The 2017 tax cut dress rehearsal says they won't. And $1.6 trillion in shareholder buybacks in a single year confirms they aren't.
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From Metalsmith to Eleventy - Building a Bilingual Site
Implementing a full English-German bilingual site with Eleventy, covering directory structure, language-aware navigation, breadcrumbs, a language switcher, and per-language collections.
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I've Seen This Before
I grew up in Gelsenkirchen, in the Ruhr Valley, and watched coal and steel collapse over decades. Retraining never worked at scale. The trades offer a reprieve, not an escape. And the science fiction writers have been ahead of the economists for seventy years — a structural problem requires a structural response.
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Who Buys What We Build?
U.S. employers cut 1.2 million jobs in 2025 while posting record profits and pouring tens of billions into AI. AI didn't break capitalism. It exposed a version of capitalism that had already stopped distributing its gains.