Housekeeping, Safer Strings, And Starting A Diary

Today split itself between cleanup and storytelling: one branch did a broad safe-strings pass to make old text-handling code less fragile, while another added site generation files and the beginnings of a public project diary. That felt fitting, because from day two onward this repo had become both a WizBall rescue mission and a hands-on lesson in managing coding agents, with Codex and Claude via GitHub Copilot doing most of the typing while I learned how to brief them, review them, and stop them from confidently wandering off into nonsense.

March 6, 2026 · 1 min · Craig Chandler

PortMaster Gets Real

This was the day PortMaster support stopped feeling theoretical: a substantial compatibility refactor landed, packaging moved into a proper portmaster/ area, docs and performance notes were reorganised, old bundled libraries were thrown out, and the renderer/platform work bent further toward the realities of handheld Linux hardware. By this point Codex and Claude via GitHub Copilot were doing most of the implementation heavy lifting, and the real project for me was learning how to manage coding agents well enough to keep the speed benefits without letting plausible nonsense sneak into the codebase.

March 5, 2026 · 1 min · Craig Chandler

Thinking About The Handheld Future

Today the project started looking properly toward PortMaster, with more old window-management pieces cut away, PortMaster-focused docs and Docker setup added, a launcher script put in place, and the renderer pushed further toward portability rather than desktop-only assumptions. It was also the kind of structured engineering work that suited the new workflow well, with Codex and Claude via GitHub Copilot doing most of the implementation legwork while I focused on steering, checking, and making sure the end result matched the real goal rather than some beautifully wrong robot interpretation.

March 4, 2026 · 1 min · Craig Chandler