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  "description": "Closing accounts, making backups and making choices.\n",
  "path": "/essays/2026/alignment",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T18:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "So I've done some things.\n\nDeleting My Fediverse Account\n\nLast night, I deleted my Mastodon account of at least ~5 years from\n<https://todon.eu>. It was where I went after PlayVicious, run by\n<https://roiskinda.cool> shut down. Normally, I feel things - a decoupling, a\nsense of loss - when deleting accounts like this. But I felt more deleting my\nMicrosoft account than deleting this one. I have a backup and plan on\nselectively adding folks into <https://fed.brid.gy/> so I can still see posts\nfrom my account with <https://blackskyweb.xyz/> but it's going to be a _small_ number.\n\nThere's a bunch of reasons why I pulled the plug:\n\n- I don't use it often: I keep track of what sites I visit on a daily,\n  weekly and monthly basis. This was one of the ones I didn't really care for, I\n  noticed.\n- It's discouraging my rewrite: In order to lean into the idea of the\n  ActivityPub API, I couldn't keep using or running an account held on software\n  stuck in the past of ActivityPub &mdash; and in what helped calcify the\n  collective Fediverse experience &mdash; as a developer wanting _more_\n- It's no different feed-wise from other things: I have chronological feeds\n  in my podcast reader, my AT Protocol AppView and my RSS reader and this one was\n  used the least.\n\nLeaning into Agentic Tooling\n\nI've written my stance on using these tools. What's\nprobably more important &mdash; to me &mdash; is that my usage has dramatically\nincreased since starting work with <https://divine.video>. It's a core aspect\nof how we manage to keep the platform going with our small team, get high speed\nturnaround and keep our team's knowledge in a cemented place.\n<https://evan.henshaw-plath.com/> has a vision on how this is changing how\nfolks write software and despite some of the qualms I have with it &mdash;\nacting like it's _not a thing_ is like acting like cars didn't exist in the\nrural South United States of America or Port au Prince of Haiti in the 1980s.\n\nThere's this line from Billy Butcher at the end of season 5 of the The Boys &mdash;\nabout an half hour before he dies; where he looks to a Supe and says, \"if you\ncan't beat them, join them &mdash; then beat them\". And it worked. Outside of\nwork with <https://divine.video>, I've been using these tools to help me build up the apps at\n<https://www.olamaelcu.net/projects>. I think the biggest issue I've run into\nis that now I'm _too eager_ to run multiple projects in development\n_concurrently_ &mdash; choking up my (underpowered) machines. But I've been\nable to fight off [a form of amnesia][1] by repeatedly acknowledging what I\ndon't know in order to figure out how to learn it. That's enabled me to:\n\n- build a shared Rust app core for Livtet for iOS and Android (for Livtet)\n- build out a dynamic rules engine in Rust bound to Godot (for Spadat)\n- grok how to form dynamic feeds in AT Protocol (for Beats)\n- land a refactor for [hiding posts in the Blacksky appview][2]\n\nI was (and am) fully capable of doing these things by hand, by myself. However,\nnow I can do it _and_ get quicker demonstration of understanding. I'm not\nexpecting this to gel over well and I've spoken a bit on my Instagram stories\nabout this (blending of worlds!) but as a fully independent contractor,\nunderstanding and alignment is the game (always has been). And my personal TIL\nObsidian vault now gets some semi-automatic updates leaning on [a tweaked skill\nby Dr. Cat Hicks][3] for OpenCode that lets me review things I did differently\nor new on a daily basis.\n\n---\n\nWe'll see where this goes.\n\n[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#%22Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect%22\n[2]: https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/blacksky.community/pull/79\n[3]: https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities",
  "title": "A realignment of things"
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