What I’m reading

A couple of good articles on agentic coding:

• My experience with Claude code 2.0. Pretty good overview, nothing too revolutionary here but a great starting point if you haven’t been following Claude Code throughout the year.
• Shipping at Inference-Speed. One for the Codex-heads! I like the emphasis on simplicity, I do feel validated not going all-in on the skills/plugins/etc. hype (“30 sub-agents to run your business”). The model capabilities and harness catch up quick! Will be working Codex more into my personal projects.

What I’m playing

Some boardgames! Need to get back into this habit and make more time regularly. Burndown through my collection in 2026 is a goal. Recent plays of Patchwork and Tapestry with Kaitlin, and Terraforming Mars with my dad and Greg.

What I’m up to

All-in on agentic coding over the holiday break. Currently working on a portfolio tracker, as nothing I’ve found quite meets my needs. It’s the era of personal software, baby!

Particularly fun has been coding from my phone. I set up an Ubuntu server box on my home lab, connected it and my phone to tailscale, and talk to Claude Code via Termius on my phone. I can ask it to make changes and see updates in real time to the app running on my local network.

Semi-related, I was frustrated trying to develop on my Windows machine with WSL - too many networking annoyances and little gotchas. I was debating buying a Mac Studio but had the thought “why not linux?”. One afternoon later and my daily driver is Pop!_OS and I’m not looking back. Gaming was the main thing keeping me on Windows, but with Proton/Steam Deck development over the past few years Linux support has gotten extremely good. Is 2026 the year of the Linux Desktop?!?