Willem's firehose
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Drinking from the firehose

I'm Willem van den Ende, partner at QWAN. This is where I write about agentic engineering, wishcraft, naive evals, and whatever prototype I'm building this week.

Recent posts

Prototyping a thin slice for federated corporate collaboration

Why prototype when you only hardly have time to write a reply to a detailed enterprese question? I made a prototype to reflect my thinking, understand an enterprise problem and explore the solution space. Rapidly.

April 09, 2026 Engineering

Automated release notes with 'demo' skill

Agents can make release notes, given the right tools and instructions. Showboat, Chrome DevTools MCP were quite easy to use.

April 02, 2026 Engineering

Scheduled Publishing & Author Dashboard

Future-dated posts stay hidden until their publish date, authors get a dashboard to track drafts and scheduled content, and registration is locked down to invited emails only.

April 01, 2026 Releases

Blog post triage with a local coding agent

Can a coding agent help me get some of my draft blog posts over the line? I followed a tip by Chris Parsons to find out.

March 24, 2026 Engineering

v0.1.0 Released

Initial release of Firehose

March 16, 2026 Releases

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