Bradley Davis

Writing

Build notes, homelab ops, and other things worth sharing. More as they're ready.

The backlog problem was never ideas

July 11, 2026

Agents didn't make my ideas better. They collapsed the setup tax that used to keep a backlog of side projects permanently deferred.

Why everything I touch is Solarized

July 11, 2026

Every terminal, editor, and this site itself run the same 16-color palette. Not a rut — one Nix module every tool reads from.

"unable to open database file": surviving macOS app-data protection in an MCP server

July 10, 2026

Every Claude Code session's Things reads died at the same instant with the same SQLite error — the cause was macOS quietly revoking file access mid-session, not the database.