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Tinkering with new tech, shipping updates, and writing up what I find along the way.

Dog dad, curious soul - building open-source tools & helping businesses get found online. Tech at littlebearapps.com, consulting at nathanschram.com.

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Outlook Assistant · v3.7.4 minor · 4 May 2026

Outlook Assistant v3.7.4 — JSON-Stringified Arrays + KQL Search Fixed

Outlook Assistant v3.7.4 patches two regressions surfaced by independent v3.7.3 re-verification: F-24 chokepoint catches JSON-stringified arrays, and search-emails kqlQuery no longer silently drops.

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Outlook Assistant · v3.7.3 minor · 1 May 2026

Outlook Assistant v3.7.3 — E2E Sweep: 25 Real-World Fixes

Outlook Assistant v3.7.3 lands a comprehensive E2E sweep against a live personal Outlook.com mailbox: MCP boundary param coercion, strict unknown-param rejection, file outputDir, ID surfacing, and 20+ targeted bug fixes.

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Outlook Assistant · v3.7.2 minor · 22 April 2026

Outlook Assistant v3.7.2 — Restart-Safe Device Code Auth (Telegram-Friendly)

Outlook Assistant v3.7.2 persists device code auth state across MCP server restarts and fixes token refresh for public-client tokens. Critical for Telegram bridges.

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Outlook Assistant · v3.7.1 minor · 8 April 2026

Outlook Assistant v3.7.1 — Search That Tells You When It Lied

Outlook Assistant v3.7.1 fixes silent search-emails fallback on personal accounts and exposes searchMetadata so AI agents can detect when filters were dropped.

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Normi the dog holding a ball in his mouth at the park, alongside a phone screen showing Telegram chats with multiple AI coding agents running simultaneously

31 March 2026 · 16 min read ·

untether remote-coding

I voice-code from my phone while walking my dog

I dictate coding tasks to Claude Code via Telegram voice notes while walking my dog. Voice input is 4x faster than typing on a phone.

Outlook Assistant · v3.7.0 minor · 25 March 2026

Outlook Assistant v3.7.0 — Inbox Rules That Actually Match What You Mean

Outlook Assistant v3.7.0 ships 12 condition types and 9 action types for manage-rules, plus rule exceptions, action=update, and dry-run preview.

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Bar chart showing D1 write operations spiking to 1.42 billion in January 2026, with two colour-coded bug periods highlighted

18 March 2026 · 17 min read ·

cloudflare d1

My $5/month Cloudflare bill hit $4,868 because of an infinite loop

Cloudflare D1 pricing in 2026 — what writes actually cost, where billing spirals, and how a bug turned my $5/month bill into $4,868 before I built circuit breakers.

16 March 2026 · 14 min read ·

ai-coding context-switching

Starting a new repo with AI is easy. Coming back three weeks later is the hard part.

AI re-onboarding is the real productivity killer. A METR study found devs are 19% slower with AI on familiar codebases. Here's how I handle 30 projects.

15 March 2026 · 15 min read ·

ai-context claude-code

I maintain 7 AI context files. What goes in them.

After maintaining 7 AI context files, I learned shorter files beat longer ones - with a 41% token reduction. Here's what to include and leave out.

Outlook Assistant · v3.6.0 minor · 15 March 2026

Outlook Assistant v3.6.0 — Email Drafts via Conversation

Outlook Assistant v3.6.0 adds a draft tool for create / update / send / delete / reply / reply-all / forward, with dry-run preview and recipient validation built in.

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Terminal listing MCP server processes across Claude Code sessions — each session spawns about 14 servers, consuming over 100 MB each

8 March 2026 · 18 min read ·

dogfooding testing

Dogfooding found 22 bugs my 1,548 tests missed

Dogfooding Untether and PitchDocs daily — and Outlook Assistant when the task calls for it — found 22 bugs that 1,548 automated tests missed. The bugs that matter live in the transitions between states — sleeping and waking, busy and stuck, present and away.

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Outlook Assistant v3.7.4 — JSON-Stringified Arrays + KQL Search Fixed

Outlook Assistant v3.7.3 — E2E Sweep: 25 Real-World Fixes

Outlook Assistant v3.7.2 — Restart-Safe Device Code Auth (Telegram-Friendly)

Outlook Assistant v3.7.1 — Search That Tells You When It Lied

I voice-code from my phone while walking my dog

Outlook Assistant v3.7.0 — Inbox Rules That Actually Match What You Mean

My $5/month Cloudflare bill hit $4,868 because of an infinite loop

Starting a new repo with AI is easy. Coming back three weeks later is the hard part.

I maintain 7 AI context files. What goes in them.

Outlook Assistant v3.6.0 — Email Drafts via Conversation

Dogfooding found 22 bugs my 1,548 tests missed

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