# waltspence.com

> Walt Spence, RPSGT: 20+ years in the sleep lab, building AI agent systems the rest of the time.

This site is a publishing server. Every public object has a stable HTML permalink and
machine representations beside it: `.json`, `.txt` and (for long-form) `.md`. The same
content is available through Atom and JSON Feed, and through a read-only JSON API at
https://waltspence.com/api/v1 (start there; it lists every resource and parameter).
Content is by Walt Spence and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 unless a page says otherwise.

## Start here
- API index: https://waltspence.com/api/v1
- Terminal guide: https://waltspence.com/cli.txt
- What Walt is doing now: https://waltspence.com/now.txt
- Recent changes: https://waltspence.com/changes.txt
- Search: https://waltspence.com/api/v1/search?q=QUERY
- Everything feed: https://waltspence.com/feed.json

## Sections
- Notes (long-form): https://waltspence.com/notes — https://waltspence.com/api/v1/notes
- Thoughts (stream): https://waltspence.com/thoughts — https://waltspence.com/api/v1/thoughts
- Projects (bench): https://waltspence.com/projects — https://waltspence.com/api/v1/projects
- Podcast: https://waltspence.com/podcast — https://waltspence.com/podcast/feed.xml
- Goodies (store): https://waltspence.com/goodies
- About / Now / Uses / Colophon: https://waltspence.com/about https://waltspence.com/now https://waltspence.com/uses https://waltspence.com/colophon

## Recent Notes
- [Supposed to Run Itself](https://waltspence.com/notes/supposed-to-run-itself.md): After a year of building a fleet of AI agents at home, I think the models are the easy part, and most of what gets called agent engineering is a demo.
- [Embrace the Rain: Ten Years of Lessons](https://waltspence.com/notes/embrace-the-rain.md): Ten years of lessons, written down just before I turned 36.
- [What EnLab is Not](https://waltspence.com/notes/what-enlab-is-not.md): Why EnLab refused to be called a startup, a SaaS company, an app studio or a web shop.
- [What Bootstrapping Actually Looked Like](https://waltspence.com/notes/song-of-an-entrepreneurs-soul.md): On hustle culture, the gap between the lifestyle being sold and the life being lived, and what it actually looked like for me.

## Projects
- [waltspence.com](https://waltspence.com/projects/waltspence-com.md) (active): This site. A publishing server with several interfaces.
- [Knowfer](https://waltspence.com/projects/knowfer.md) (active): The fleet's durable memory: a Rails knowledge base agents read and write over MCP.
- [zap](https://waltspence.com/projects/zap.md) (active): A terminal-native, agent-friendly app uninstaller. Dry-run by default, Trash not rm, undo always.
- [htcasso](https://waltspence.com/projects/htcasso.md) (experimental): Markdown in, self-contained HTML out. For agent artifacts people actually open.
- [Talkify](https://waltspence.com/projects/talkify.md) (experimental): Voice and text pipelines, Rails and Vue.
- [flight-tracker](https://waltspence.com/projects/flight-tracker.md) (paused): Watching the sky over the house with Python.
- [Featherweight](https://waltspence.com/projects/featherweight.md) (archived): A macOS menu-bar disk cleaner. Now a feature of zap.

## Topics
- [Agents](https://waltspence.com/topics/agents) (17)
- [Automation](https://waltspence.com/topics/automation) (6)
- [Commentary](https://waltspence.com/topics/commentary) (3)
- [Entrepreneurship](https://waltspence.com/topics/entrepreneurship) (6)
- [Homelab](https://waltspence.com/topics/homelab) (1)
- [Infrastructure](https://waltspence.com/topics/infrastructure) (2)
- [Open Web](https://waltspence.com/topics/open-web) (6)
- [Politics](https://waltspence.com/topics/politics) (1)
- [Publishing](https://waltspence.com/topics/publishing) (3)
- [Python](https://waltspence.com/topics/python) (3)
- [Rails](https://waltspence.com/topics/rails) (3)
- [Sleep Medicine](https://waltspence.com/topics/sleep-medicine) (4)
- [Writing](https://waltspence.com/topics/writing) (12)
- [macOS](https://waltspence.com/topics/macos) (6)