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  "author": {
    "name": "Christopher Chalcraft",
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  "created": "2026-09-28T00:00:00Z",
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  "content_md": "# On keeping notes and shipping articles\n\nMost blogs die of friction. You have a thought, but publishing it means\nwrestling with tooling, so the thought stays in a notes app forever.\n\nMy fix is to separate the two activities. **Notes** are where thinking\nhappens — fast, messy, no audience. **Articles** are the small fraction of\nnotes worth polishing for other people.\n\nThe pipeline between them is intentionally short:\n\n1. Write notes while I work, wherever is convenient.\n2. When a note is worth sharing, hand it to an agent with the site's\n   conventions.\n3. Review the draft, tweak the voice, publish.\n\nThe site is designed so step 2 is trivial: one Markdown file, a few\nfrontmatter fields, and a `draft` flag that keeps work-in-progress out of\nproduction until I flip it. Nothing else stands between a good idea and a\npublished post.\n",
  "content_html": "<h1>On keeping notes and shipping articles</h1>\n<p>Most blogs die of friction. You have a thought, but publishing it means\nwrestling with tooling, so the thought stays in a notes app forever.</p>\n<p>My fix is to separate the two activities. <strong>Notes</strong> are where thinking\nhappens — fast, messy, no audience. <strong>Articles</strong> are the small fraction of\nnotes worth polishing for other people.</p>\n<p>The pipeline between them is intentionally short:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Write notes while I work, wherever is convenient.</li>\n<li>When a note is worth sharing, hand it to an agent with the site’s\nconventions.</li>\n<li>Review the draft, tweak the voice, publish.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>The site is designed so step 2 is trivial: one Markdown file, a few\nfrontmatter fields, and a <code>draft</code> flag that keeps work-in-progress out of\nproduction until I flip it. Nothing else stands between a good idea and a\npublished post.</p>\n",
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