Articles & Dictionary

Five article series, a dictionary of traditional vegetables, and related sites

Structural Analysis

Insights — every structure connects to one conclusion

Climate change, fossil resources, the Mythos era, enterprise IT taxes, drone warfare, healthcare and pensions, regulation redesign — AI changes how we work, farm, and live; this series unpacks the structure beneath.

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AI-Native Software Development

Don't commission an SIer — stand it up yourself, and run it yourself

Design and code move to AI; the builder, who plans and writes the spec, arises on the customer's side. The whole toolkit for stepping off Microsoft and Google, laid out as a spec the AI can read.

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Growing a Debian Server with Claude

A home server or a VPS, with your data under your own control

Drive a screenless Debian over SSH, harden it, put a database and your own app on it, open it to the outside, back it up, and grow it. Eleven chapters on owning your own infrastructure with Claude.

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Learning Debian with Claude

A textbook you dialogue with, not just read

A new kind of textbook you read with Claude beside you. Learn the migration to Debian through dialogue, tailored to your own situation. At the end of each chapter, ask Claude "given what I've read, what should I do."

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Phosphorus Depletion and Natural Farming

When phosphate fertilizer stops coming — economics decides the farming method

Phosphate fertilizer supply is contracting through three routes at once. Conventional agriculture's economics break down; the only viable path is farming that lets soil microbes take over the work. We track this structurally using World Bank, USDA, and MAFF primary data. Includes Cuba's "Special Period" as the world's only nationwide case study of fuel-and-fertilizer collapse.

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Italian Vegetable Dictionary — Vegitage

Le Verdure Italiane — Mediterranean bounty and the stories of its food culture

From DOP and IGP certified varieties to regional landraces, a structured database covering the history, cultivation, and cuisine of 69 traditional Italian vegetables — built with AI research agents. (Currently in Japanese.)

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Related Sites

aiai — Learning in the AI Era

Your own AI is the main character

Guides you hand to the AI you already use: learn your strengths from your chat history, decide what to learn, build a small app, start working. The guides are free. (In Japanese.)

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Personal Weather Statistics for Japan

Today's temperatures and weather across Japan, compiled daily

Today's temperatures, heat and cold rankings, climographs and monthly temperatures, from AMeDAS 10-minute observations. (In Japanese.)

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