Bimaaji: agent-safe mutations for Waaseyaa

Why AI agents modifying a Waaseyaa app need a DSL, an AST-safe patch generator, and sovereignty guardrails, instead of raw file edits.

July 2, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

The ingest side of a sovereign language platform

How an Elder’s whiteboard video becomes a searchable Anishinaabemowin lesson, on infrastructure the community owns end to end.

June 25, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

One URL, two readers: serving HTML to people and Markdown to agents

How Waaseyaa serves the same content as a web page for people and clean Markdown for AI agents from a single URL, using HTTP content negotiation.

June 19, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

Agent-friendly JSON output for PHP CI tools

How the waaseyaa/agent-output package shrinks PHPUnit, PHPStan, and bin/check-* output to compact NDJSON envelopes so AI agents do not drown their context window in CI noise.

May 24, 2026 · 5 min · Russell

Bumping a PHP monorepo to 8.5: the mechanics

Sixty-seven packages, one CI matrix, one PHPStan target. What it takes to actually move the floor.

May 11, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

PHP 8.5 restraint: features we did not adopt

An upgrade is also a decision about what not to use. Property hooks, the pipe operator, and an array_find pass we mostly rejected.

May 11, 2026 · 6 min · Russell

Spec Kitty mission lifecycle: a domain modeling pass through Giiken

What a full Spec Kitty mission actually looks like end to end: spec, plan, tasks, implement, review, merge.

May 11, 2026 · 3 min · Russell

The PHP 8.5 deprecation sweep: from 34 warnings to zero

Three deprecation categories. Twenty-nine call sites. A test corpus that surfaces them all.

May 11, 2026 · 4 min · Russell

Remember when server-side rendering was just rendering?

How Waaseyaa’s SSR package renders HTML the way PHP always has, with Twig templates, field formatters, and a theme chain loader, no JavaScript runtime required.

April 6, 2026 · 6 min · Russell

Domain routing in Waaseyaa: replacing a giant dispatcher with small routers

How Waaseyaa splits a monolithic controller dispatcher into domain-specific routers using a two-method interface.

April 5, 2026 · 5 min · Russell