About the author
Ken W Alger
@kenwalger
Developer educator and advocate who still ships code. 15 years teaching developers at MongoDB, Heroku, Cisco, and Treehouse. Now writing about AI-assisted development, agent memory, and provenance.
Oregon
Jul 9
The Pivot Engine
(Connecting the Local Twin to the Global Market) In our last post, we built the “Digital...
Jul 3
The Agent Tool-Calling Pattern
Pattern Defined Precise Definition: Agent Tool-Calling is an inference pattern where the model is...
Jul 2
The Field Agent
(Identity, Input, and the Digital Twin of the Dirt) We’ve spent the last month teaching an...
Jul 2
Declarations from the Periphery: From Genesis to the Sovereign Edge
In July of 1776, an experimental political concept was ratified on the extreme edge of the known...
Jul 1
A Cold Root Beer and a Small System
A Cold Root Beer and a Small System It’s starting to get warmer out. Which, at least for...
Jun 30
The Hybrid Retrieval Pattern
Pattern Defined Precise Definition: Hybrid Retrieval is an inference pattern that combines semantic...
Jun 30
The Scribe’s Day Off: From 1880 Archives to 2026 Vines
We’ve spent the last few weeks teaching an AI to read 19th-century cursive and build a social graph....
Jun 29
The New Information Borders
Recently I came across a discussion about AI crawlers and robots.txt files. The conversation centered...
Jun 27
The Future of SEO Has Nothing to Do With Search
Or: how I learned a machine might introduce us before my website ever does. Every few years, the...
Jun 26
Mapping the Social Graph
In our previous post, we built the Knowledge Archive, a durable, atomic vault for historical data. We...
Jun 22
Introducing LaaSy™
The Future of Autonomous Camelid Infrastructure For too long, enterprises have struggled...
Jun 26
Engineering the Knowledge Archive
In our last post, we introduced the Digital Scribe , an AI architecture designed to capture the...