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February may have been a short month, but I managed to cram the same amount of shit into its slightly smaller bag, anyway. Life outside the Internet continues at a breakneck pace:

• Advised a couple hot new startups, both of which have more to do with helping people than building software, which is always welcome
• Found and rented an apartment in Shizuoka we can use until our condo is ready for move-in come June (technically, two tiny apartments next door to one another—Becky and I are going to be neighbors! 👫)
• Completed our visa applications for the trip and planned a semi-compulsory culinary excursion to Miami to coincide with our appointment at the consulate next week
• Lined up half a dozen doctor's appointments I'd been putting off, on the theory I'd rather deal with what ails me now than be forced to explain golfer's elbow in Japanese—which, of course, I've managed to develop without golfing
• Not six months after my last PC build, I've gotten the bug again and decided to mix-and-match parts from my two previous PC towers into a svelte 19L case

As someone whose trigger finger is glued to Amazon's "Buy Now" button, I'm awful to buy gifts for. My brother managed to surprise me, though, with this exploded OG Game Boy. I was excited to add it to my collection of framed hardware teardowns—which up until that point had only included GRID's OG iPhone shadow box:

Now, as for Internet stuff, here's some of what's been posted to the ol' website:

• Wrote Brace for the Fuckening about how screwed we'll be if the AI bubble doesn't burst. The Dow plunged 800 points a few days later. Really makes you think
• Iterated on prove_it and scrapple, which—in combination with Xcode MCP—have dramatically improved the quality of iOS apps that Claude Code can create
• Released another new "agentic engineering" tool called turbocommit, which saves state after every Claude Code turn. This has enabled me to more confidently juggle multiple agents in a single branch
• Recorded v51 and v52 of the podcast. If you're in the mood for one of my longform essays, just open Breaking Change in Apple Podcasts and read the transcript
• Figured out that the reason half the videos I take with iPhone Air lack any perceptible audio is that the microphone is where my pinky naturally rests. Neat
• Found what is very probably the best sushi from a non-Japanese owned restaurant I've ever had—and it's right around the corner!
• Received some tough feedback: now that coding agents can crank out hundreds of iterations in the time it used to take to push out a single release, the result is "antisocial" code with more bespoke, less hospitable implementations. Yet another sign that human-to-human collaboration is under threat

And that was February, I guess. How'd you make out?