Meta/ holds vault-internal indexes (Glossary, Series, Themes, Timeline)
that aren't meant to be published. Sync script now excludes them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Match CMS date-parsing convention (full YYYY-MM-DD prefix) so the
essay shows the correct publish date rather than defaulting to the
first of the month.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
These essays from Aug-Sep 2025 were over-linked with repetitive
internal references that made them read like wikis rather than essays.
Trimmed duplicate targets, generic theme links, and shoehorned
cross-references while keeping meaningful first-mention links.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On the gap between power and responsibility as AI-assisted
development bypasses the understanding that traditionally
produced ethical instinct in programmers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Updated: essays, AI consciousness, AI main, AI philosophy,
AI collaboration indexes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Response to Anthropic's April 2026 emotion vectors research,
connecting their mechanistic findings to Kenneth's construct
framework and phenomenological observations of AI inner life.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New essay about adding comments to the site, referencing Aaron Swartz's
advice and the tension between enjoying the quiet and wanting conversation.
Also disables the reactions widget — comments only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Instead of maintaining a hardcoded list of oEmbed providers and endpoints,
fetch the target page and look for <link rel="alternate" type="application/json+oembed">
discovery tags. Any site with proper discovery (photos.kennethreitz.org, WordPress, etc.)
now works automatically. Includes negative caching for non-oEmbed URLs.
Also adds oEmbed embed of photos.kennethreitz.org to the photography page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrote with stronger opening, woven philosophical depth, expanded
architecture section (multi-tenant to single-tenant pivot, Alpine/JWT
to HTMX/sessions evolution), new "What the Mirror Shows" section on
the recursive loop, cross-links to related essays, and reduced em
dashes throughout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Technical deep dive on photos.kennethreitz.org — pipeline, AI metadata,
geography, deduplication, and what happens when you make 20k photos searchable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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