Writing

September 7, 2026 · 6 min read

Everyone is pairing Obsidian with AI. Obsidian is contributing nothing.

Obsidian keeps a 245 MB full text index. It lives inside an Electron process, and Cursor or Claude Code cannot read a single byte of it. Of my 141 notes, two were still alive. Here is what I measured, and what I built because of it.

September 5, 2026 · 7 min read

The browser I used every day shut down, so I built my own

I paid $44.10 for a lifetime license. It lasted sixteen months. I tried more than ten replacements, liked none of them, and started writing my own on July 17, 2026.

September 5, 2026 · 10 min read

How to rename, add and delete Sidekick workspaces after the shutdown

Sidekick's servers are gone, so the UI refuses to touch workspaces. Here is how to edit them directly in chrome.storage.local over the Chrome DevTools Protocol, with the scripts.