https://devcentr.org/blog 2026-09-25T12:00:00Z Craft, investigations, and orientations from Dev-Centr. https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-09-25-why-does-git-suck 2026-09-25T12:00:00Z

English intuition vs Git's vocabulary — commit/push/add are the wrong words — plus a map into worktree essays and mailed UX critiques.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-09-25-git-worktree-redesign-proposal 2026-09-25T12:00:00Z

Default repo-local `.worktrees/<purpose>`, `git worktree add --local`, relative paths, no `.git/worktrees/` overload, porcelain discovery, migration from org-scoped hive.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-09-25-everything-wrong-with-git-worktrees 2026-09-25T12:00:00Z

Absolute paths, move breakage, agent layout chaos, sibling clutter, .git/worktrees name collision, IDE indexing, fake clones, fsmonitor orphans, and branch-switch residue.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-09-18-installation-nightmares-and-how-to-avoid-them 2026-09-18T12:00:00Z

Installation norms as craft — FHS cargo-cult, Windows honest writes, and a dual-mode layout that might survive connectome-fs.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-09-03-markview-is-a-good-markdown-viewer 2026-09-03T12:00:00Z

Orientation to MarkView as a free local Markdown viewer (no editing).

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-09-02-unifying-model-runner-registration 2026-09-02T12:00:00Z

Competing unilayer discovery formats punish offline runners. Open Provider Registry should be a shared protocol, not a brand war.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-09-02-solomd-editor-a-new-markdown-tool-to-add-to-your-toolbox 2026-09-02T12:00:00Z

Orientation to SoloMD for local Markdown README and project-doc workflows.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-30-auto-mode-is-pricing-theater 2026-08-30T12:00:00Z

Raw frontier APIs blow past a sixty-dollar IDE plan. Harness routing plus a local classify model change the spend curve.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-29-why-do-installers-wait-in-line-a-design-failure-study 2026-08-29T12:00:00Z

Open-source Windows installer tooling copies files well and stalls everywhere else. The global MSI lock is coarse on purpose.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-28-our-ai-agent-harness-strategy 2026-08-28T12:00:00Z

Direction notes for a T3code-weight local agent runtime — strategy, not a News-desk release.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-19-architecting-your-agent-rules 2026-08-19T12:00:00Z

How to structure agent rules so harness quirks stay on the machine — and the templates stay forkable.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-19-after-skia-modern-2d-rendering-engine-with-vello 2026-08-19T12:00:00Z

After Skia, Vello-style GPU compute is the bet for documents that grow past what Electron can carry.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-18-is-it-possible-to-ship-just-one-download 2026-08-18T12:00:00Z

Most programs still ship as one OS and one CPU. The download page is the scar — and the consumer question is whether one file can cover the rest.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-18-is-a-unified-binary-the-future-of-distributing-software 2026-08-18T12:00:00Z

A lab note on single-download packs of native OS/arch slices and on-delivery stripping — not a release announcement.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-13-stop-translating-shells 2026-08-13T12:00:00Z

A playbook should name the outcome. PlayTime binds how on this machine. Equivalence Engine is a catalog — not a bash-to-PowerShell blender.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-12-oauth-is-not-a-cloud-project 2026-08-12T12:00:00Z

Personal OAuth does not belong in a Project-shaped box. Consent, quotas, and API enablement are the wrong boundaries.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-08-09-api-key-vs-api-token-an-explainer 2026-08-09T12:00:00Z

Dashboard secrets keep getting sold as tokens. The wrong word keeps failing security reviews.

https://devcentr.org/blog/2026-09-02-search-and-back-up-from-the-source T12:00:00Z

Why catalogs and backups should come from the place that hosts the software — not from a scrape of its website.