https://blog.petebartsch.com hmmm, I'm thinking... https://blog.petebartsch.com/saas-isnt-dead-its-moving.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/saas-isnt-dead-its-moving.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:30:00 -0500 "SaaS is dead" is half right — the most dangerous kind. Big orgs will build what they used to rent, but the value doesn't vanish. It moves down the value chain, to the great, consistent bundle most of us would rather trust than build. https://blog.petebartsch.com/good-stuff-bubbles-up.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/good-stuff-bubbles-up.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:30:00 -0500 I found bubbles.town — a Hacker News for personal blogs. It's everything I want the small web to be, and it raises an awkward question about this very garden. https://blog.petebartsch.com/the-gardener-almost-pulled-a-tomato.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/the-gardener-almost-pulled-a-tomato.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:15:00 -0500 A few weeks into letting an AI tend my notes, it tried to delete one I wanted to keep. The guardrail held — and that's the point. https://blog.petebartsch.com/letting-an-ai-tend-my-second-brain.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/letting-an-ai-tend-my-second-brain.html Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:30:00 -0500 I keep a second brain. Lately I've been teaching AI agents to garden it — and this site is the first thing that grew. https://blog.petebartsch.com/custom-rigs-are-coming-back.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/custom-rigs-are-coming-back.html Tue, 12 May 2026 14:30:00 -0500 PC gamers once turned into modders. With AI moving on-device and RAM and chip prices going vertical, I think we're about to start building our own boxes again — and that's a good thing. https://blog.petebartsch.com/computers-are-fun-again.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/computers-are-fun-again.html Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:30:00 -0500 An Apple IIe, a Countach drawn in HPLOT, a brother who erased the floppy — and why, with AI filling my skill gaps and growing the rest, this might be the age of the neurodivergent. Computers are fun again. https://blog.petebartsch.com/ux-is-dead-long-live-hx.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/ux-is-dead-long-live-hx.html Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:00:00 -0600 Why designing for Agents means we finally get to design for Humans — not Users. The end of dark patterns, the beginning of honest experiences. https://blog.petebartsch.com/what-vertical-farming-got-wrong.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/what-vertical-farming-got-wrong.html Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0600 Billions in VC money burned. The lesson is not about lettuce. https://blog.petebartsch.com/open-source-3d-configurator.html https://blog.petebartsch.com/open-source-3d-configurator.html Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0600 Three.js, vanilla JavaScript, 23 modules, 10 languages, and zero frameworks. Here is how it works.