The Person's Blog

April 2026

• Introducing…

  Introducing Prompted™: The World's First Zero-Content Content Platform Today we're thrilled to announce that we've closed a $42M Series A to solve the most pressing problem facing creators in 2026: writing things. For too long, the content economy has labored under an absurd, archaic assumption — that the person with the idea should also be the one to generate the content. We at Prompted™ believe this is a violation of the reader's autonomy. Why should one static blob of text — typed by one human, on one day, in one mood — be served to every reader on Earth, as though we lived in some kind of dystopian one-size-fits-all medieval scriptorium? Truly, the unexamined Substack is not worth subscribing to. So we asked ourselves a question that, in hindsight, was always staring us in the face: what if you just... published the prompt? How it works Prompted™ is breathtakingly simple. Authors write a prompt. That's it. They're done. They log off. They go touch grass. They do not, under any…

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February 2026

• Backups, backups…

  Did you know that a whole two characters can make the difference between removing your entire database when shutting down a service? docker compose down -v will remove the volumes associated with the compose project, even if you specify a specific service that doesn't use the volumes. Take, for example, a frontend and backend, where the backend has a SQL database that relies on a volume to persist changes. Suppose for whatever reason the frontend also has a volume (possible a redis database?); suppose you want to remove the volume only for that frontend. One (I) might (did) assume that specifying the frontend service in the compose down command would only remove the volumes associated with said service (i.e. composing down the frontend should only remove volumes that the frontend uses). Apparently this was incorrect. Running docker compose down -v frontend removes all volumes declared in that compose file. This can be absolutely catastrophic to people that aren't prepared; novices…

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January 2026

• Sensible Defaults

  No, I do not want you to sell my personal information. No, I do not want you to track what I look at, purely to 'improve' ads. No, I do not wish to disclose my race, gender, or other protected classifications for a job application. No, I do not work for the government or a potential COI1 company. No, I do not have an active security clearance. No, I do not have a family member that works for you. No, I do not want to be reached out via text; that's what you have my email for. Conflict of Interest ↩︎

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