“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci (probably didn’t mean git worktrees, but still) When Brady Gaster created Squad, he built it around a principle I really like...

“Agents can’t look at a screen. They need programmatic access to system state. Aspire MCP gives them exactly that.” — me, after watching five agents simultaneously query different aspects of t...

The Story I’ve been running Squad — a multi-agent AI framework — for a couple of weeks now. It orchestrates a team of AI agents that handle code review, architecture decisions, infrastructure, do...

“Irrelevant. I am a drone. Drones do not have feelings.” “Then how do you know you’re not curious?” — Data and Seven of Nine, Star Trek: Voyager (fan fiction, but you get the idea) Knowledge...

“We have engaged the Borg.” — Captain Picard, Star Trek: First Contact In Part 3, I showed you how Squad became a distributed system — multiple machines, git-based task queues, heartbeat-dri...

“Unimatrix Zero: where individual drones regain their identity within the collective.” — Star Trek: Voyager In Part 2, the Collective gave us upstream inheritance — one team’s knowledge flowin...

“We are the Borg. We will add your technological distinctiveness to our own.” — The Borg, Star Trek: The Next Generation In Part 1, I set up my first Squad on an internal project called the pr...

By now you know the story. In Part 0, I told you how Squad became the first productivity system I didn’t abandon after three days. Now I’ll show you how Ralph and my Star Trek crew assimilated my b...

I’m Not an Organized Person Let me start with a confession: I’m not an organized guy. Never have been. I’ve tried everything. Notion with its beautifully nested pages and databases. Microsoft Pla...

I needed a demo video for my Hackathon 2026 project — an internal CLI tool at Microsoft. Twelve commands, live terminal recordings, synchronized narration, animated title cards, the whole thing. In...