Memos by Brian Swichkow
- acupuncture
Acupuncture is a therapeutic technique originating in traditional Chinese medicine in which a practitioner stimulates specific points on the body, usually by inserting thin needles through the skin....
- BodyTalk
BodyTalk is a consciousness-based complementary health modality that uses yes-or-no biofeedback questioning and light tapping to prompt what practitioners call the body's innate healing wisdom. The...
- Kitesurf
Kitesurf is Cloudflare's stateless, agent-oriented headless browser, built entirely on Workers and offered in beta as a lighter alternative to Chromium. Rather than shipping a full desktop browser...
- SavvyCal
SavvyCal is an online scheduling platform designed to simplify the process of finding meeting times by combining flexibility for organizers with convenience for recipients. SavvyCal replaces the...
- 3D Printing Filament Types
Quick-reference for the everyday FDM filaments — what each one is genuinely good at, where it fails, and the printer conditions it demands. Specialty and novelty materials live in Novel & Exotic 3D...
- Timeplast
Timeplast is a materials-science company that develops time-programmable, water-soluble polymers intended as replacements for conventional plastic. Its core material is alcohol-based and composed of...
- Novel & Exotic 3D Printing Filaments
Field survey of novelty and specialty FDM filaments available as of July 2026, organized by the property that makes each one unusual rather than by base polymer. Baseline already in hand:...
- Jenn Chang
Jenn Chang is a Los Angeles-based product developer and creative strategist with more than a decade of experience building brands across health, fitness, and sexual wellness. She currently serves as...
- Chase Riner
Chase Riner is a photographer, aerial acrobat, multi-faceted body-worker, former model, daily motorcyclist, property manager, and Citizen of One. Chase and I were introduced by Charles-Ryan Barber at...
- Beverly Hills Ducati
Beverly Hills Ducati is an authorized Ducati motorcycle dealership at 428 N La Cienega Blvd in Los Angeles, California, selling new and used bikes, parts, service, and gear. The dealership operates...
- Christine Sullivan
Christine Sullivan is a Los Angeles motorcycle-dealer and the co-owner of Beverly Hills Ducati, the authorized Ducati dealership on North La Cienega Boulevard that she and her husband, John Sullivan,...
- John Sullivan
John Sullivan is a Los Angeles motorcycle-dealer and the co-owner of Beverly Hills Ducati, the authorized Ducati dealership at 428 N La Cienega Blvd that he and his wife, Christine Sullivan, have...
- Progressive Disclosure
Progressive disclosure is the practice of keeping an AI agent's baseline context minimal and loading instructions, tools, and knowledge only at the moment a task actually calls for them. The term...
- Context Engineering Rules for Claude 5 Generation
The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models are six then/now shifts moving agent Context Engineering away from prescriptive scaffolding and toward judgment, interface design,...
- CLAUDE.md
CLAUDE.md is Claude Code's project-level instruction file — a Markdown document that loads into every session's context window and steers agent behavior for that project. It lives at the root of a...
- J-Space
J-space is a small, readable internal workspace that Anthropic researchers identified inside Claude's reasoning process, discovered using a Jacobian-based interpretability technique called J-lens....
- Vees Cafe
Vees Cafe is a breakfast-and-brunch restaurant group in Los Angeles, serving American comfort food alongside Italian- and Mexican-influenced dishes across multiple Mid-City and Downtown locations....
- Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing Webmaster Tools is Microsoft's free service for monitoring, managing, and optimizing how a website appears in Bing's search index, covering crawl, indexing, and query-performance reporting. The...
- The Inigo Montoya Method
The Inigo Montoya Method is a communication framework inspired by the character Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride (1973). It emphasizes a clear, structured sequence: polite greeting, personal...
- Timeplast Filament Materials Catalog
This catalog surveys every filament and base material Timeplast currently sells through its TimeMass line, grouped by function for an agent selecting materials to brainstorm 3D prints. Base Polymer...