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A contract between workspaces is real, load-bearing, and often written down nowhere but my head. Writing those seams down is the start; the stronger move is deleting them so there's nothing left to break. New post on cross workspace contracts: brianperry.dev/posts/2026/c...

Contracts That Know Who Breaks Them - brianperry.devA contract between workspaces is real, load-bearing, and often written down nowhere but my head. Writing those seams down is the floor; the stronger move is deleting them so there's nothing left to br...brianperry.dev

A large `AGENTS.md` felt responsible. It was making things worse. You can skim a 600-line doc for the one section you need. An agent can't. New post on turning the docs junk drawer into a table of contents for agents: brianperry.dev/posts/2026/d...

Documentation as a Hierarchy, Not a Pile - brianperry.devA big instructions file is a bad interface for an agent, because an agent can't skim. How I turned one junk-drawer AGENTS.md into a table of contents with a docs tree underneath.brianperry.dev

Authorities say to be on the lookout for these men

Checking in to say that I'm really loving Splatoon Raiders so far, you know, just in case I vanish for a bit on a Splatoon related bender.

What is with the recent trend of YouTube trailers having countdowns to the release date at the end. That doesn't make any sense.

The new Protomartyr song is great, but the video manages to go even harder www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUmC...

Protomartyr - Sounds We Cannot Hear (Official Video)YouTube video by protomartyrwww.youtube.com

Saw Jeff Rosenstock on the second night of his Chicago residency last week: brianperry.dev/posts/2026/j...

Jeff Rosenstock at Metro - brianperry.devCaught night two of Jeff's 'Infinite Chicago' resedency.brianperry.dev

Writing your architecture rules in a doc feels productive. Then something violates them three weeks later, because a document is a description of intent. It doesn't stop anything. Part 2 of Hardening the Harness: turning those rules into checks that fail the build. brianperry.dev/posts/2026/a...

Architecture That Enforces Itself - brianperry.devA document is a description of intent. It doesn't stop anything. How to turn architectural rules into checks that fail the build.brianperry.dev

I bought my first Cameo recently: brianperry.dev/posts/2026/m...

My First Cameo - brianperry.devI used Cameo to have George Shea of Major League Eating introduce my 4th of July BBQ.brianperry.dev

An AI agent's PR: tests green, lint clean, feature built. It also crossed two workspace boundaries nobody had written down. The agent wasn't the problem. My codebase was. Starting a series on hardening the harness around coding agents: brianperry.dev/posts/2026/h...

Hardening the Harness - brianperry.devAI agents can pass your tests and still ship the wrong thing. Starting a series on the infrastructure that makes them reliable contributors.brianperry.dev

Not exactly sure why, but I find this irresistible.

I saw The Hotelier perform "Goodness" live a few weeks ago. It was fun! brianperry.dev/posts/2026/h...

The Hotelier at Lincoln Hall - brianperry.devCaught the "Goodness" 10th Anniversary tour in Chicago.brianperry.dev

Atomic Design was a huge unlock for me, but this was often my experience with it on projects renderghost.leaflet.pub/3mnxjmjjyyc2...

Splitting Atoms & Splitting HairsAtomic design got us from thinking about pages to thinking about components, but we don't need to keep carrying the periodic table around.renderghost.leaflet.pub

I’ve been working on a side project for over a year, and haven’t shared it with anyone but myself (yet). Here’s my confession. brianperry.dev/posts/2026/c...

Confessions from the World's Worst Vibe Coder - brianperry.devA year, nearly 2,000 commits, 100+ TestFlight builds, and still not shipped — and why that turned out to be fine.brianperry.dev

I'm hardly an AI skeptic, but connecting ChatGPT to my bank accounts is still the hardest of hard passes.

Had a memorable experience at a screening of Backrooms this week: brianperry.dev/posts/2026/b...

Best Jump Scare of the Year - brianperry.devA Backrooms scare that wasn't in the script. A theater full of strangers and I found that out the hard way.brianperry.dev

Join us for this Nintendo direct featuring 50 minutes of thumb wrestling.

More than enough to play these days, but still super excited for this.

Very excited to play Mina the Hollower.

I'm really into videos of robots falling down.