Space Command: a Mac sidebar for plain-text projects

Post tasks #todo move this whole post to projects, where both this and scorekeep will get a section for changelogs/posts/etc. Outline Your projects already live in plain text. Space Command reads them and shows you the one thing to do next. Space Command is a native macOS sidebar app. It sits at the edge of your screen, a click from the menu bar, and works on your files where they are: Git repos, notes vaults, and Hugo blogs. Nothing to import, no second copy to keep in sync, and nothing leaves your Mac. ...

October 17, 2026 · Bruce Alderson

The comfort of home bases for creative work

There’s a feeling you get when everything clicks into place. Not the eureka moment of solving a problem, but something more fundamental: the deep satisfaction of being exactly where you need to be, with exactly what you need, arranged exactly how it should be. It’s the feeling of home, but applied to the spaces where we create. This isn’t about aesthetics or luxury. It’s about something more primal: the human need to nest, to claim territory, to shape our environment until it shapes us back. And nowhere is this more crucial than in the spaces where we do our most demanding creative work. ...

August 25, 2025 · Bruce Alderson

The Art of context: what I’ve learned about working with AI

I sat down a few weeks ago to ask Claude to help me analyze some user feedback data. I spent fifteen minutes crafting what I thought was the perfect prompt: > Please analyze this data, but don't make assumptions about causation, don't over-interpret small sample sizes, don't use corporate jargon, don't suggest solutions we can't implement, and definitely don't... The response was generic and cautious. Frustrated, I tried again with a simple request: ...

July 21, 2025 · Bruce Alderson