Writing

• How to Restore Windows Apps and Settings After Reinstalling Windows

  How to restore Windows apps and settings after a reinstall with a saved Endstate profile, including what carries over, what does not, and how to choose the changes to apply.

  July 30, 2026

• Exomem vs claude-mem: session continuity and durable knowledge are different problems

  claude-mem captures what your agent did and replays it into the next session. Exomem stores what you concluded, in Markdown you own. An honest comparison of two tools that get filed together and solve different problems.

  July 25, 2026

• How to transfer programs from one computer to another

  You cannot copy installed programs between Windows PCs, and the tools that promise it are fragile. Here is what actually moves, what does not, and how to rebuild a machine in minutes without installation disks.

  July 24, 2026

• Exomem vs mem0, Letta, Zep, cognee, and Basic Memory: an honest comparison of memory for AI agents

  An honest comparison of memory for AI agents — Exomem vs mem0, Letta, Zep, cognee, and Basic Memory — on hosting, data ownership, storage format, retrieval, MCP support, license, and price.

  July 4, 2026

• The complete guide to setting up a new Windows PC

  A practical guide to setting up a new Windows PC: reinstall your apps, bring your settings, handle the Store gap, and skip the paid migration tools.

  July 4, 2026

• Share your whole app setup as one file (yes, even MSI Afterburner)

  Your Endstate setup is a portable file, so you can hand someone your exact app config: OBS scenes, MSI Afterburner profiles, your dev setup. Here's how.

  July 4, 2026

• A free, open-source alternative to EaseUS Todo PCTrans, Zinstall, and Laplink PCmover

  Endstate is a free, open-source PC migration tool for Windows, compared to EaseUS Todo PCTrans, Zinstall, and Laplink PCmover on price, method, and trust.

  July 3, 2026

• How to reinstall all your apps with winget (and what it misses)

  winget can export and reinstall your Windows apps from one file. Here's exactly how, plus the apps and settings it quietly leaves behind.

  July 3, 2026

• Why winget export skips your Microsoft Store apps

  winget export leaves your Microsoft Store apps out of the file. Here's why it happens, how to see what's missing, and how to capture everything.

  July 3, 2026

• Coolify to K3s

  Migrating Q from Coolify to K3s + Terraform + Ansible — the conversation that started it, what got built, and the operational calm that followed.

  May 24, 2026

• Lazy loading vs. instruction-following

  Skill-triggered context loading reliably outperforms bulk-loaded AGENTS.md. The mechanism behind the benchmark result — two cognitive operations, one binding layer.

  May 24, 2026

• We cannot decrypt your data

  Building Endstate's hosted backup service as a structural commitment, not a policy promise — the Argon2id split-key construction and what follows from it.

  May 24, 2026

• Governance as compression: contracts and skills for AI-augmented codebases

  The pattern I shipped to fix AI-augmented development correction loops, and the controlled three-condition benchmark that revealed which layer does the work.

  May 20, 2026