About

The name

In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee handed his manager at CERN, Mike Sendall, a proposal titled Information Management: A Proposal. It described a distributed hypertext system for keeping track of the lab's information. Sendall couldn't officially approve it, but he wrote three words in the margin — "Vague, but exciting…" — and let Berners-Lee work on it on the side. The proposal became the World Wide Web.

That margin note is the honest state of most real engineering work: you can't fully justify it yet, but you can smell that it matters. This site is written from inside that state — findings from work in progress, published while they're still useful, labeled with exactly how sure I am.

The rules

Every post here follows these:

• Verified means independently verified. A claim marked as working was checked against a signal that isn't a self-report — an API read-back, a checksum, a second device. If I couldn't verify something, the post says assumed or reported by others, explicitly.
• Date-stamped. Fixes rot. Every post states what OS/tool versions it was true for and as-of when, and gets a dated update line when the ground shifts.
• First-hand or labeled. The default content is things that happened to me, with receipts (exact error strings, Apple feedback numbers, public thread links). Second-hand claims are attributed.
• AI-assisted, human-owned. I use coding agents heavily — some posts are about exactly that. Every technical claim is mine, verified by me, and I edit and sign everything published.

Written by Colin Rooney. Found an error, or want to work with me? Contact is on that page.