Rick Blalock

Bon Archer, Bonnes Fleches

Founder of The Agent Company. Writing about agents, products, freedom, and what happens when small teams gain more leverage.

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    Coding agents ate the world

    A talk at AI Engineer Miami on coding agents as the foundation other agents are built on.

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    ICES Paper — Fish & Wind

    Research on recreational fishing and offshore wind development, ICES Journal of Marine Science.

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    NASA app

    Winner and international honorable mention, NASA Space Apps Challenge 2013.

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    Apollo Software Library

    Apollo-era software recreated from NASA documents, starting with the MSC view program.

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    Omarchy Replay

    Find things you saw on your screen with a locally searchable visual history.

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    Omarchy Island

    A morphing bar widget for desktop controls and ongoing activity.

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    Omakase Agent

    The chef’s standard for AI agent work. One skill, twelve rules, zero slop.

    T-120Site ↗︎

Experiments

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Agent tools

Omakase Agent

The chef’s standard for AI agent work. One skill, twelve rules, zero slop.

Omarchy

Omarchy Replay

Find things you saw on your screen with a locally searchable visual history.

Desktop app

HEY Mail Client

An independent HEY desktop client with mail, calendar, and AI helpers.

Omarchy

Omarchy Island

A morphing bar widget for desktop controls and ongoing activity.

Omarchy

Panel Notes

Markdown notes and named tabs attached to any app window in Omarchy.

Omarchy

Grid Wallpaper Picker

Browse and pick Omarchy themes and wallpapers in a visual grid.

Theme pair

Jupiter Lighthouse

Two coastal Omarchy themes with original lighthouse watercolor wallpapers.

Software history

Apollo Software Library

Apollo-era software recreated from NASA documents, starting with the MSC view program.

Game AI research

NPC self-learning

NPCs learn from combat in a browser game, with a reusable Rust library and recorded experiments.