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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

Swim the Test

Every application has some kind of workflow. Understanding larger workflows, making them cohesive and understandable to users and developers is non-trivial. I re-discovered Ward Cunningham's Swim the Test approach, this is the Further Reading section of future posts.

July 27, 2026 Engineering

Does AI assistance support tiny open source projects?

I am making small contributions to tiny open source projects I have just started using, where I would let it be before coding agents.

July 18, 2026 Engineering

Synthetic TDD

Synthetic Test Driven Development is when you have a coding agent generate the tests and the code, and maybe also do the refactor step with an agent.

July 13, 2026 Engineering

v0.2.0 — RSS Subscribe Links

RSS feed subscribe links with classic waveguide icons across blog pages, post pages, and site footer.

July 08, 2026 Releases

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

v0.1.0 Released

Initial release of Firehose

March 16, 2026 Releases

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