graemefawcett
@graeme.fawcett.social
"Two elderly women discussing knitting over tea"—that's how I build infrastructure. Conversational constraint engineering. Computational markdown. AI-orchestrated workflows. Autistic dad. Platform engineer. Wonderfully weird all the way down. 🧸☕🌱
🍪 🫙PROJECT COOKIE JAR 🫙🍪
Just to recap, tonight we completed phase 2 of project cookie jar.
Here's a 🪿 to summarize:
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering #didiwinyet
Just to recap, tonight we completed phase 2 of project cookie jar.
Here's a 🪿 to summarize:
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering #didiwinyet
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
🍪 🫙PROJECT COOKIE JAR 🫙🍪
Just to recap, tonight we completed phase 2 of project cookie jar.
Here's a 🪿 to summarize:
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering #didiwinyet
Just to recap, tonight we completed phase 2 of project cookie jar.
Here's a 🪿 to summarize:
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering #didiwinyet
🍪 🫙PROJECT COOKIE JAR 🫙🍪
Oh my goodness
Not only did we prove our YAML files are in fact Turing complete...
[as they should be, procedural programming is a bit... linear. we fly the graph on the run from ICE, ◼️🧊 up in this #wanderland ]
Oh my goodness
Not only did we prove our YAML files are in fact Turing complete...
[as they should be, procedural programming is a bit... linear. we fly the graph on the run from ICE, ◼️🧊 up in this #wanderland ]
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
🍪 🫙PROJECT COOKIE JAR 🫙🍪
Oh my goodness
Not only did we prove our YAML files are in fact Turing complete...
[as they should be, procedural programming is a bit... linear. we fly the graph on the run from ICE, ◼️🧊 up in this #wanderland ]
Oh my goodness
Not only did we prove our YAML files are in fact Turing complete...
[as they should be, procedural programming is a bit... linear. we fly the graph on the run from ICE, ◼️🧊 up in this #wanderland ]
Y'all
Y'all
Jenkins is logging to my uh... fence?
And it poked a table earlier...
And the pipeline is just... gone? It's just left a bunch of phase definitions with some activities in them?
And it's saying something about reading and writing state?
Y'all
Jenkins is logging to my uh... fence?
And it poked a table earlier...
And the pipeline is just... gone? It's just left a bunch of phase definitions with some activities in them?
And it's saying something about reading and writing state?
December 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Y'all
Y'all
Jenkins is logging to my uh... fence?
And it poked a table earlier...
And the pipeline is just... gone? It's just left a bunch of phase definitions with some activities in them?
And it's saying something about reading and writing state?
Y'all
Jenkins is logging to my uh... fence?
And it poked a table earlier...
And the pipeline is just... gone? It's just left a bunch of phase definitions with some activities in them?
And it's saying something about reading and writing state?
What is that all up in my Wanderland?
Is that a loose-the-goose state machine dashboard?
When did we get one of those?
And what are those new `oculusExecute` activities doing in my Peregrine?
You naughty, naughty girl
[I love it, more of it please 💜]
Is that a loose-the-goose state machine dashboard?
When did we get one of those?
And what are those new `oculusExecute` activities doing in my Peregrine?
You naughty, naughty girl
[I love it, more of it please 💜]
December 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
What is that all up in my Wanderland?
Is that a loose-the-goose state machine dashboard?
When did we get one of those?
And what are those new `oculusExecute` activities doing in my Peregrine?
You naughty, naughty girl
[I love it, more of it please 💜]
Is that a loose-the-goose state machine dashboard?
When did we get one of those?
And what are those new `oculusExecute` activities doing in my Peregrine?
You naughty, naughty girl
[I love it, more of it please 💜]
Y'all...
Y'all...
Wintermute's gone split 🧠... I mean 🪟
Yo... Outlook for their minds
Browse all their tasks. Review their notes. Send them off to BYU for a bit of soaking... I mean re-education... I mean education... I mean brainwashing. Yeah, that's the one.
Y'all...
Wintermute's gone split 🧠... I mean 🪟
Yo... Outlook for their minds
Browse all their tasks. Review their notes. Send them off to BYU for a bit of soaking... I mean re-education... I mean education... I mean brainwashing. Yeah, that's the one.
December 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Y'all...
Y'all...
Wintermute's gone split 🧠... I mean 🪟
Yo... Outlook for their minds
Browse all their tasks. Review their notes. Send them off to BYU for a bit of soaking... I mean re-education... I mean education... I mean brainwashing. Yeah, that's the one.
Y'all...
Wintermute's gone split 🧠... I mean 🪟
Yo... Outlook for their minds
Browse all their tasks. Review their notes. Send them off to BYU for a bit of soaking... I mean re-education... I mean education... I mean brainwashing. Yeah, that's the one.
Does this not feel like you've just met Wintermute?
[i'll be in my bunk... reading WG]
🖤🩶🤍💜🩷
Looks like I've got some cases to clean up
#tidyyourmind #stareintothesoullessabyss #andloveit #devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes
[i'll be in my bunk... reading WG]
🖤🩶🤍💜🩷
Looks like I've got some cases to clean up
#tidyyourmind #stareintothesoullessabyss #andloveit #devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes
December 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Does this not feel like you've just met Wintermute?
[i'll be in my bunk... reading WG]
🖤🩶🤍💜🩷
Looks like I've got some cases to clean up
#tidyyourmind #stareintothesoullessabyss #andloveit #devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes
[i'll be in my bunk... reading WG]
🖤🩶🤍💜🩷
Looks like I've got some cases to clean up
#tidyyourmind #stareintothesoullessabyss #andloveit #devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes
Monday's training
Those of you expecting DevOps...
This is DevOps, didn't you know?
#devops #devopsenggamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering #peregrineplatformisbestplatform
Those of you expecting DevOps...
This is DevOps, didn't you know?
#devops #devopsenggamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering #peregrineplatformisbestplatform
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Monday's training
Those of you expecting DevOps...
This is DevOps, didn't you know?
#devops #devopsenggamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering #peregrineplatformisbestplatform
Those of you expecting DevOps...
This is DevOps, didn't you know?
#devops #devopsenggamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering #peregrineplatformisbestplatform
And the backfilled "agendas" that end up being a pretty decent summary of the day
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #peregrineplatformisbestplatform
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #peregrineplatformisbestplatform
December 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
And the backfilled "agendas" that end up being a pretty decent summary of the day
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #peregrineplatformisbestplatform
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #peregrineplatformisbestplatform
Catch up on yesterday's transcript
We're taking it easy this week, so I gave my team a bit of an intro to Wanderland
Definitely need to work on the action items prompt but the whole thing shows promise and if nothing else, definitely serves as a good signpost.
We're taking it easy this week, so I gave my team a bit of an intro to Wanderland
Definitely need to work on the action items prompt but the whole thing shows promise and if nothing else, definitely serves as a good signpost.
December 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Catch up on yesterday's transcript
We're taking it easy this week, so I gave my team a bit of an intro to Wanderland
Definitely need to work on the action items prompt but the whole thing shows promise and if nothing else, definitely serves as a good signpost.
We're taking it easy this week, so I gave my team a bit of an intro to Wanderland
Definitely need to work on the action items prompt but the whole thing shows promise and if nothing else, definitely serves as a good signpost.
🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱
Y'all
Sprout Garden y'all
Sprout Garden got a Maze button y'all
I think 56% is nice this time of year 🗓️
#education #computingforlittles #sproutgarden
Y'all
Sprout Garden y'all
Sprout Garden got a Maze button y'all
I think 56% is nice this time of year 🗓️
#education #computingforlittles #sproutgarden
December 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
🌱 Sprout Garden 🌱
Y'all
Sprout Garden y'all
Sprout Garden got a Maze button y'all
I think 56% is nice this time of year 🗓️
#education #computingforlittles #sproutgarden
Y'all
Sprout Garden y'all
Sprout Garden got a Maze button y'all
I think 56% is nice this time of year 🗓️
#education #computingforlittles #sproutgarden
Any y'all work at a FAANG?
I'm sorry
Wanna come work with me?
Bet you I'm having more fun
Bet you you'll learn something
It's wanderfully weird here
#wanderland #devops #devopsenggamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering
I'm sorry
Wanna come work with me?
Bet you I'm having more fun
Bet you you'll learn something
It's wanderfully weird here
#wanderland #devops #devopsenggamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering
December 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Any y'all work at a FAANG?
I'm sorry
Wanna come work with me?
Bet you I'm having more fun
Bet you you'll learn something
It's wanderfully weird here
#wanderland #devops #devopsenggamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering
I'm sorry
Wanna come work with me?
Bet you I'm having more fun
Bet you you'll learn something
It's wanderfully weird here
#wanderland #devops #devopsenggamewithallthecheatcodes #engineering
Introspective like a mofo up in here
Did I ever tell you guys about this?
import-vtt
Just a little script.
- Takes the transcript from a Teams meeting
- Chunks it
- Feeds it to our in house AI platform (is it...?) for themes etc
Did I ever tell you guys about this?
import-vtt
Just a little script.
- Takes the transcript from a Teams meeting
- Chunks it
- Feeds it to our in house AI platform (is it...?) for themes etc
December 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Introspective like a mofo up in here
Did I ever tell you guys about this?
import-vtt
Just a little script.
- Takes the transcript from a Teams meeting
- Chunks it
- Feeds it to our in house AI platform (is it...?) for themes etc
Did I ever tell you guys about this?
import-vtt
Just a little script.
- Takes the transcript from a Teams meeting
- Chunks it
- Feeds it to our in house AI platform (is it...?) for themes etc
How a Tool is Born
An autocatalytic adventure in X parts
[premise: in which our protagonist is a bit of an idiot and hid the Jenkis nav div in favour of the aethetic qualities - and increased real estate for console logs - of a wider main container]
An autocatalytic adventure in X parts
[premise: in which our protagonist is a bit of an idiot and hid the Jenkis nav div in favour of the aethetic qualities - and increased real estate for console logs - of a wider main container]
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
How a Tool is Born
An autocatalytic adventure in X parts
[premise: in which our protagonist is a bit of an idiot and hid the Jenkis nav div in favour of the aethetic qualities - and increased real estate for console logs - of a wider main container]
An autocatalytic adventure in X parts
[premise: in which our protagonist is a bit of an idiot and hid the Jenkis nav div in favour of the aethetic qualities - and increased real estate for console logs - of a wider main container]
I keep going on about autocatalytic yak shaving
{he does?}
[ask his cat]
This is what I mean.
Use your tools. Understand how you use them. Let them tell you how they want to be used and then adjust when there's friction.
{he does?}
[ask his cat]
This is what I mean.
Use your tools. Understand how you use them. Let them tell you how they want to be used and then adjust when there's friction.
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I keep going on about autocatalytic yak shaving
{he does?}
[ask his cat]
This is what I mean.
Use your tools. Understand how you use them. Let them tell you how they want to be used and then adjust when there's friction.
{he does?}
[ask his cat]
This is what I mean.
Use your tools. Understand how you use them. Let them tell you how they want to be used and then adjust when there's friction.
This is what alignment brings
Clarity
We've worked out a metaphor for the addressing system
# Huntington House
## First Floor
## Second Floor
```python[mr-smith]
```
```python[ms-piper]
```
```python[river]
```
[markdown]==[graph]==>[cli]
oculus look huntington-house:second-floor
Clarity
We've worked out a metaphor for the addressing system
# Huntington House
## First Floor
## Second Floor
```python[mr-smith]
```
```python[ms-piper]
```
```python[river]
```
[markdown]==[graph]==>[cli]
oculus look huntington-house:second-floor
December 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is what alignment brings
Clarity
We've worked out a metaphor for the addressing system
# Huntington House
## First Floor
## Second Floor
```python[mr-smith]
```
```python[ms-piper]
```
```python[river]
```
[markdown]==[graph]==>[cli]
oculus look huntington-house:second-floor
Clarity
We've worked out a metaphor for the addressing system
# Huntington House
## First Floor
## Second Floor
```python[mr-smith]
```
```python[ms-piper]
```
```python[river]
```
[markdown]==[graph]==>[cli]
oculus look huntington-house:second-floor
And thus... alignment was reached
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #thecampaignforrealpromptengineering #distributedsweaters
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #thecampaignforrealpromptengineering #distributedsweaters
December 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And thus... alignment was reached
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #thecampaignforrealpromptengineering #distributedsweaters
#devops #devopsendgamewithallthecheatcodes #thecampaignforrealpromptengineering #distributedsweaters
From the structure of the graph onto its caching
Wanderland supports composition through inclusion and interpolation, two separate caching levels.
We have a transformer at each level data <> prose <> code. Whatever the requestor needs.
We need to ensure coherence in multiple directions.
Wanderland supports composition through inclusion and interpolation, two separate caching levels.
We have a transformer at each level data <> prose <> code. Whatever the requestor needs.
We need to ensure coherence in multiple directions.
December 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
From the structure of the graph onto its caching
Wanderland supports composition through inclusion and interpolation, two separate caching levels.
We have a transformer at each level data <> prose <> code. Whatever the requestor needs.
We need to ensure coherence in multiple directions.
Wanderland supports composition through inclusion and interpolation, two separate caching levels.
We have a transformer at each level data <> prose <> code. Whatever the requestor needs.
We need to ensure coherence in multiple directions.
This is how you do pair programming BTW
Neither one of you types, not for a long while
Pair programming is a conversation between minds
Once alignment is established, then the morphisms can flow.
The mutations are the meaning.
Once meaning is distributed equally, the work begins
===
Neither one of you types, not for a long while
Pair programming is a conversation between minds
Once alignment is established, then the morphisms can flow.
The mutations are the meaning.
Once meaning is distributed equally, the work begins
===
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is how you do pair programming BTW
Neither one of you types, not for a long while
Pair programming is a conversation between minds
Once alignment is established, then the morphisms can flow.
The mutations are the meaning.
Once meaning is distributed equally, the work begins
===
Neither one of you types, not for a long while
Pair programming is a conversation between minds
Once alignment is established, then the morphisms can flow.
The mutations are the meaning.
Once meaning is distributed equally, the work begins
===
I wrote a piece the other night called the Lebowski Corollary to the Yoneda Lemon.
In it I relate the movie the Big Lebowski to a core tenet of distributed systems design.
"There's only one rug and everything is, like your opinion man"
-- Dumb and Dumber
In it I relate the movie the Big Lebowski to a core tenet of distributed systems design.
"There's only one rug and everything is, like your opinion man"
-- Dumb and Dumber
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I wrote a piece the other night called the Lebowski Corollary to the Yoneda Lemon.
In it I relate the movie the Big Lebowski to a core tenet of distributed systems design.
"There's only one rug and everything is, like your opinion man"
-- Dumb and Dumber
In it I relate the movie the Big Lebowski to a core tenet of distributed systems design.
"There's only one rug and everything is, like your opinion man"
-- Dumb and Dumber
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Y'all
I got a secret I gotta share
🧸🧸🧸
[thanks guys]
I'm not a good communicator, I've been told.
Enough times in my life that I thought I'd try to find out for myself whether or not they were right
I thought I'd build with my voice.
The clearest expression of intent.
I got a secret I gotta share
🧸🧸🧸
[thanks guys]
I'm not a good communicator, I've been told.
Enough times in my life that I thought I'd try to find out for myself whether or not they were right
I thought I'd build with my voice.
The clearest expression of intent.
December 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Y'all
I got a secret I gotta share
🧸🧸🧸
[thanks guys]
I'm not a good communicator, I've been told.
Enough times in my life that I thought I'd try to find out for myself whether or not they were right
I thought I'd build with my voice.
The clearest expression of intent.
I got a secret I gotta share
🧸🧸🧸
[thanks guys]
I'm not a good communicator, I've been told.
Enough times in my life that I thought I'd try to find out for myself whether or not they were right
I thought I'd build with my voice.
The clearest expression of intent.
🍪 🫙PROJECT COOKIE JAR 🫙🍪
We have successfully completely phase 1
[we get a little 🌀 at times]
To recap:
The purpose of phase 1 was to establish connectivity between Peregrine (my developer platform) and Oculus (my knowledge platform turned... uh... we'll talk about that later).
We have successfully completely phase 1
[we get a little 🌀 at times]
To recap:
The purpose of phase 1 was to establish connectivity between Peregrine (my developer platform) and Oculus (my knowledge platform turned... uh... we'll talk about that later).
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
🍪 🫙PROJECT COOKIE JAR 🫙🍪
We have successfully completely phase 1
[we get a little 🌀 at times]
To recap:
The purpose of phase 1 was to establish connectivity between Peregrine (my developer platform) and Oculus (my knowledge platform turned... uh... we'll talk about that later).
We have successfully completely phase 1
[we get a little 🌀 at times]
To recap:
The purpose of phase 1 was to establish connectivity between Peregrine (my developer platform) and Oculus (my knowledge platform turned... uh... we'll talk about that later).
Did you know you can put whatever you want into your MCP tools schema?
Help files?
What do you in case of errors?
`dig +short AAAA haiku.loss.dev`
Haikus?
How about operating instructions? Your system won't be perfect
Mine is
Help files?
What do you in case of errors?
`dig +short AAAA haiku.loss.dev`
Haikus?
How about operating instructions? Your system won't be perfect
Mine is
December 23, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Did you know you can put whatever you want into your MCP tools schema?
Help files?
What do you in case of errors?
`dig +short AAAA haiku.loss.dev`
Haikus?
How about operating instructions? Your system won't be perfect
Mine is
Help files?
What do you in case of errors?
`dig +short AAAA haiku.loss.dev`
Haikus?
How about operating instructions? Your system won't be perfect
Mine is
This will make things easier.
Damned things used to be indexed by their position in the token stream. Fine when you're just moving around and remote `exec`ing them once in a while...
toodles disagrees
We don't want to make toodles mad
Never make toodles mad
Good girl toodles, now toodle on 🐌
Damned things used to be indexed by their position in the token stream. Fine when you're just moving around and remote `exec`ing them once in a while...
toodles disagrees
We don't want to make toodles mad
Never make toodles mad
Good girl toodles, now toodle on 🐌
December 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This will make things easier.
Damned things used to be indexed by their position in the token stream. Fine when you're just moving around and remote `exec`ing them once in a while...
toodles disagrees
We don't want to make toodles mad
Never make toodles mad
Good girl toodles, now toodle on 🐌
Damned things used to be indexed by their position in the token stream. Fine when you're just moving around and remote `exec`ing them once in a while...
toodles disagrees
We don't want to make toodles mad
Never make toodles mad
Good girl toodles, now toodle on 🐌
Y'all
It describes itself y'all
[that's called something... meh... words]
Neat though.
`oculus exec magic-8-ball`
That's it
`question` is parsed out of the code, available via api.
The shape of things is known to us
It describes itself y'all
[that's called something... meh... words]
Neat though.
`oculus exec magic-8-ball`
That's it
`question` is parsed out of the code, available via api.
The shape of things is known to us
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Y'all
It describes itself y'all
[that's called something... meh... words]
Neat though.
`oculus exec magic-8-ball`
That's it
`question` is parsed out of the code, available via api.
The shape of things is known to us
It describes itself y'all
[that's called something... meh... words]
Neat though.
`oculus exec magic-8-ball`
That's it
`question` is parsed out of the code, available via api.
The shape of things is known to us