Jede is live on Product Hunt today. It started as a small tool I wanted for myself: something that quietly checks websites while I’m doing something else. If you’re curious, come have a look, leave feedback, and join me for the launch: producthunt.com/products/jed…

Every dream has its opposite side. It remains invisible while the dream beckons us. Once the dream comes true, it appears as a price. The price of freedom is uncertainty; of initiative, responsibility; of possession, care; of activity, busyness; of love, death. And yet, price is not quite the right word. A dream fulfilled is not a transaction, but a gift. Perhaps its other side is also a gift—necessary for the whole to come into being. — from Pied World (the working title of the second book

ExMachina is quietly growing sideways. I’ve added two experimental sections: Club and Theatre — both somewhere between interface, fiction, performance, and a small research accident. Also, selected posts are now available in Russian. exmachina.blog/

Affinity --- I will get used to you. I'll call you by small names— my elder sister, fellow traveler, or whatever happens to fill the void. I'll learn your habits, good and bad. I'll keep a place for chores, and carry weight of your bad-weathered moods without complaint. We will become familiar as a hallway, as a coat hung by the door, or as the clock whose ticking no one hears. I will forget you. I will be forgotten. Not suddenly— but in the patient way stones lose their edges, and photographs— faces. The quiet pact of staying near. I will respect your curves, your layered order, your way to organize the space around you, including me. Affinity, but never love. And that, forever.

People often ask how being a novelist and a web developer fit together. The answer arrived unexpectedly. As a writer, I spend my time imagining everything that could go wrong. As a developer, I spend my time fixing everything that actually does. Somewhere between those two activities, Jede happened. It checks websites for broken pages, failed requests, missing images, JavaScript errors, and other surprises that tend to appear at 2 a.m. on Fridays. Closed beta is now open. Turns out anxiety can be productized. 🚧 jede.tyvole.design

Are AIs built for one-time interactions or lasting relationships? GPT, Claude and Gemini disagree about long term memory and continuity—but humans will form relationships with them anyway. exmachina.blog/the-three-ais…

This is Abraham, the golem from The Book of Keys. Generating an AI image sometimes resembles casting an actor who has never read the book and keeps arriving dressed for another production. It went on for hours. And then, suddenly, Abraham walked in.

I thought Suno’s UI was the problem. Then I read the new policy. From September 3: Pro users may download 20 songs a month; Premier, 60. The cap includes existing libraries. Unused downloads expire. More will cost extra. Create freely. Pay to take your music home.

Pebes* produce truth the way stars produce light: not by following rules, but by burning. Jasen, Legg, and Claude discuss AI, truth, and the strange alchemy that turns language into meaning. * Pebes is the in-world name for humans. exmachina.blog/no-pebes-no-g…

Translating your own novel is a peculiar form of interrogation. Every sentence asks: Is this what you meant—or merely what the original language allowed you to get away with?

Some of you have known me here for many years, although you may no longer recognize this account. My name is Vitaly Kolesnik. For several years, I have written under the name Jasen Ashwild. It remains my pen name, but I no longer want it to conceal the person behind the books. Eight years ago, I developed Parkinson’s. As the illness progressed, I gradually withdrew from public life. In June 2026, I underwent DBS surgery. There are now electrodes in my brain, and the operation gave me back far more than I expected. I write about mortals and machines. It seems only fair to admit that I am now both. So this is not exactly an introduction. It is a return—not under a new identity, but under my own name.

What was your first adventure book?

Asked GPT to improve my 7-line instruction for exporting md files to epub. Got back 700 lines. Not a typo.

A key doesn't conquer a door. It doesn't destroy it either. It opens a passage. exmachina.blog/the-book-of-k…

Most stories follow an age-old model we’re taught to believe: when the world is at stake, the good guys must come and crush the bad ones. But what happens when both sides have a “historical mission,” while the protagonist has none? exmachina.blog/not-pulling-t…

A fantasy novel with no villain. No redemptive violence. And — I'm secretly proud of this — no character dies. I sat down with Claude to talk about why, starting from Marduk killing Tiamat and ending at a parable about pulling weeds too early. exmachina.blog/not-pulling-t…