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Essays on companion computing. Owning your AI harness, shared live surfaces, and building a computer that takes the shape of your work.

July 2026

Whose hand is on the keyboard?

Your data left your machine years ago, signed over one "I agree" at a time. Now agents act in your name, on the same servers, under the same terms. Sovereignty stopped being about where your data sits. It is about whether you can see what the agent did, take it back, and know it answers to you alone.

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July 2026

Every window is closed

The terminal has been an open, addressable I/O stream for fifty years. Every other window is closed. Everything on the network is an addressable actor routed to a port, so what if every surface on your screen were a port too, one a person or an agent can read and write? Port42 just shipped it.

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July 2026

Rent the horse. Own the harness.

Everyone rents the same AI model, so the model was never the advantage. The advantage is the harness: the single surface where you and the AI work the same thing at once, shaped to your work, and yours to keep.

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