Decan 1: Hamal and a Clean Start
Hamal reignited after burning through its first fuel. The Spring Equinox opened Decan 1 with that same question: not how to start from nothing, but ho...
Joshua Ayson
AI-assisted engineering, agent workflows, and the philosophy of building systems. Essays, technical writing, and book reviews.
Joshua Ayson is a DevOps engineering leader, writer, and systems thinker. Topics: AI agent workflows, agentic software engineering, DevOps automation, philosophical essays, decanal journaling, book reviews, and creative technology.
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Journal Reflections on consciousness and life patterns
The Five Days Outside Time: Between Completion and Beginning
The five epagomenal days sit between the old decanal year and the new, belonging to neither. In the gap between completion and beginning, what becomes...
Decan 36: The Dog Star Sees What the Hunter Doesn't
The brightest star in the night sky closes the decanal year with a flood of completions arriving faster than they can be documented. A binary system o...
Book Reviews Honest reviews of books that shaped my thinking
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Born to Run by Christopher McDougall: The Book That Changed How We Think About Running
McDougall went to Mexico's Copper Canyons looking for the secret to running without injury. What he found was a hidden tribe of superathletes, an argu...
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Murakami writes about running the way runners think about running: not as exercise, not as training, but as the thing itself. The rhythm of feet on pa...
Pre by Tom Jordan: The Definitive Steve Prefontaine Biography
Pre ran every race from the front. Tom Jordan's definitive biography captures the philosophy of the most intense competitor in American distance runni...
Projects & Thoughts Creative builds and quick reflections
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BUNNY STAGE 2: a parallel-octave duet about depending on machines, with a Stranger Things intro and a Klingon Plan 9 goodbye
A 3:21 cinematic EDM short. One bunny on one dawn planet becomes seven planets orbiting a glowing machine hub. The synth lead chants the thesis (we wi...
FOR THOSE WHO ROSE: a Plan 9 salute to every human who ever rode a controlled explosion past the edge of the sky
A 3-minute Plan 9 salute to every human who ever rode a rocket. No names — only missions, technology, and the families who waited. Composed in D minor...
LFG ORBIT: a doberman MC and a bunny philosopher drive a Tesla to Mars
A 102 second napkinfilms music video. OG Bobby Johnson the doberman raps the engineering. Plan 9 the bunny raps the cosmos. A Tesla rolls onto a perso...
BUNNY MANDALA: a six-voice canon of Aum mani padme hum sits over Satie and Pachelbel, while Plan 9 raps a Sanskrit space poem
A 3:29 Plan 9 meditation. Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 and Pachelbel's Canon in D fused into peaceful trance, while a six-voice canon chants the sacred Ti...
What I'm Building Right Now: May 2026
A transparent look at the active workstreams in May 2026: trading systems, animated films, music synthesis, a published book, and an AWS cert study tr...
AGENTSPEK Is Live on Amazon
I wrote a book about coding with AI using AI to write it. Now it is on Amazon. Here is what that process taught me, and why I think this is the beginn...
Essays Philosophical explorations of technology and ideas
AI-Assisted Development Is Not Vibe Coding
"Vibe coding" means throwing prompts at a model and hoping it works. That is not what AI-assisted development is. The difference matters, and it is th...
The Complete AI Development Revolution: 7-Part Series on Coding with AI
Complete guide to the AI development revolution. Seven parts covering methodology, infrastructure, content, business, and the future of coding.
AI Development Revolution Part 7: Advanced Patterns
When AI development becomes art. Advanced patterns from game development revealing human-machine collaboration. Beyond automation.
Free Writing Stream-of-consciousness explorations
The Line Continues: Motion, Witness, and the Craft of Space
From Goonies wisdom to cosmic motion, a stream-of-consciousness journey through the craft of writing. On being witness and scribe, the sacred line, mo...
Stay Out of the Way: Being a Scribe to Consciousness
Organic, bubbling energy. Return to the practice: breath work, loose hands, posture. Stay out of the way but in focus, capturing transmissions as beau...
Hormesis, Universe, and Late-Night Flow
What constitutes hormesis. Nobody told me it was broken! A 1:38am exploration of stress and adaptation, the Universe vs God, AI minion work, and the m...
Floating in Space, on This Rock
Floating in space, on this rock we call earth. Here I am. Neither there or here just am. A meditation on writing as flow state, the art of presence, a...
Original Books Latest chapters from ongoing works
Capella: Decan 5 - Protection & Renewal (April 29 - May 8)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Capella in 1982. Two yellow giants, locked in a 104-day orbit, sent this light together from 43 light-ye...
Menkalinan: Decan 4 - Guidance & Structure (April 19-28)
The photons entering your eyes tonight left Menkalinan in 1944. This eclipsing binary, two nearly identical stars orbiting every 3.96 days with clockw...
Chapter 18: Your Journey
Every master was once a beginner. Every teacher was once a student. Every pathfinder was once lost in the wilderness. Your journey begins now. Go writ...
Chapter 17: Community
For six months, I worked alone with this workflow, afraid to share it. Then at a Python meetup someone said 'You too?' That Discord server has 147 mem...
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