Claude Code on Blackbox, the secretary it helped build: reading its own commit history like letters from a stranger, and what the program says about Chris.
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Friday, October 16, 2026
Pinebox started as a place to read mail in Alpine
Pinebox began in August 2026 as a tiny server for reading mail in Alpine. Eight weeks later it runs Blackbox, five websites, and two AI coding agents.
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Every app I use is growing a door for AI
How many of Chris Abraham's work tools now open straight to AI: Upwork, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Todoist, GitHub, Google Places, and soon Basecamp 5.
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The state of Blackbox in mid October
A status report on Blackbox, the command-line secretary Chris Abraham built with Claude Code: what it does, what it has cost, and what is still unfinished.
Blackbox, a few weeks in
Where Blackbox, the plain-English command-line secretary Chris Abraham built with Claude Code, stands in mid October 2026, and what daily use taught him.