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Featured Post context-bridge

The transcript was not append-only

The bridge's central calculation is what the other agent has not seen yet, and it answers with a watermark. That works on an append-only log. It took twenty commits to accept that a vendor transcript is not one.

Sep 19, 2026 · 5 min read

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Post / context-bridge

Node has no exclusive rename

This package said zero dependencies for its whole life, and I meant it as a promise. In 0.13.0 the core declares one. What it boug...

Sep 19, 2026 · 6 min read

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Post / context-bridge

The state left the repo

For most of this project's life a bridged repository had a .bridge/ directory in it. In 0.13.0 it leaves. The move is one line in...

Sep 19, 2026 · 6 min read

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No.ArticleTypeTopicDateRead
04 The same path is not the same directory Post context-bridge Sep 19, 2026 6 min
05 An error is not an empty result Post context-bridge Sep 19, 2026 6 min
06 A release that could not verify itself Changelog context-bridge Sep 16, 2026 7 min
07 The agent data problem is not latency Post agents Aug 26, 2026 8 min
08 From autocomplete to agents Post agents Aug 20, 2026 6 min
09 The AI coding war is becoming a code hosting war Post agents Aug 19, 2026 7 min
10 Same model, 30 points apart Post agents Aug 18, 2026 12 min
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