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I’ve been aware of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) for over a decade. A number of companies I’m on the board of use some element, or all of it. Several friends, including Bart Lorang , are EOS Implementers. Last night, while watching Olympic highlights and the first few episodes of Steal , I created a v0.1 of CEOS — an open-source project that brings the core EOS toolkit to any Claude Code session. I went from an empty GitHub repo to a public-ready project in about 90 minutes. Please feel free to make fun of Amy and me about how we spend our Friday nights. ...

Dan Shapiro just open-sourced Freshell — a browser-based terminal multiplexer for Claude Code, Codex, and other coding CLIs that lets you detach and reattach sessions, browse your coding history, and access everything from your phone. The tagline is “What if tmux and Claude fell in love?” which is about right. It can be pronounced multiple ways: Free-shell, Fresh-hell, fresh-shell. I’ve been thinking of it as Fresh-hell, which amuses me. ...

This post was written inside a Claude Code session and posted directly to feld.com as a draft. Not copy-pasted. Not emailed to myself. I just typed /blog-feld in iterm2 and it showed up on my blog. Setting this up took about ten minutes. I asked Claude to figure out how to connect to feld.com (hosted on WordPress.com) for direct posting. It researched three approaches: the WordPress.com REST API, the official WordPress MCP connector, and the WordPress plugin MCP Adapter. The WordPress MCP connector is read-only (so, useless for posting). The MCP Adapter only works on self-hosted WordPress (not WordPress.com). That left the REST API with OAuth. ...

I love getting emails from Ben Casnocha . Short, sweet, and to the point. Today’s was “what tech are you obsessed with now? Saw your blog post…” I wrote a response and then realized it was a good answer to my tease from my previous blog post (Blurry Transitions ) about what I was exploring. The only thing I removed was my ad hominem comments on various tech companies, since that’s not that interesting to me. And, I fixed some … typos. ...

While “vibe coding” was a catchy phrase when I first heard it, something about it felt like a head fake to me. And, now that I’ve leveled up to “competent individual software developer” again (after 33 years of not writing any code) I think it’s the wrong phrase. Instead, I’d refer to what’s going on as AI Pair Programming. When I started playing around with AI-related coding tools last Christmas (because, well, I was bored), I had zero skills with contemporary software development. While I hadn’t written any production code since 1992, I played around with a new programming language every few years. Perl. Ruby. Ruby on Rails (sort of, not really). Python. Clojure. I could do Hello World and a few other simple things, but I never really got past basic CSS, tooling, or deployment stuff. I had a Github account and would futz around with it, but quickly get tired of trying to figure out why I didn’t care about a PR. And damn, so many CLI things. ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a CTO of a large, fast-growing public company. Well, I was a Quasi CTO in the same way the United States and the First French Republic had a Quasi War between 1798 and 1800 (basically, sort of a war; sort of a CTO … but not really.) As I rediscover my second love (my first love is Amy), I’ve relied on several mentors to help guide me. One of them is Michael Natkin , who has been helping me with Cursor in the background at a few key moments. ...

This played out on @bfeld on X , and I thought it was fun enough to replay it here for anyone who is struggling to get their minds around vibe coding and current AI tooling. If you are receiving this via email and the tweets/X’s aren’t showing, click through to the website as I’m still struggling to get Mailchimp working well after my hibernation. Perhaps it’s time to switch everything to WordPress… ...

Question: If you had limited experience with graphic design software but wanted to do basic stuff for web design, what software would you use? Leave the answers in the comments or email me. As I play around with Vibe coding, I’ve decided to take a new topic each week. For context, look at my Dinostroids: My Journey into Vibe Coding . Or just go play Dinostroids . This week, I’ve been learning how to modify WordPress themes. My website has a complex theme that is impossible to change without getting under the hood. The Foundry website is also excessively complex for what it is, but they both turn out to be great to learn on. ...

Dinostroids , my first vibe-coded software project, is live. The last time I wrote any meaningful amount of production software was in 1990. At the time, I was running a software consulting company with my partner, Dave Jilk. We’d reached the point where, as we grew, he became responsible for all the software, and I handled all the network integration stuff we had to do for our clients. Every now and then, I’d have to do maintenance on something I had written in the past, but it was pretty minimal. ...