Richard MacManus is head of editorial at Latent Space and the founder of ReadWriteWeb. His reporting follows changes in web development, software platforms and AI engineering through interviews and technical analysis.[1]
Start with React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue →
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Career
MacManus founded and led ReadWriteWeb from 2003 to 2012. His career archive records New Zealand journalism in 2017–2019 and senior-editor work at The New Stack in 2020–2026, followed by Latent Space from 2026. He also maintains Cybercultural, an internet-history publication begun in 2019, and wrote the memoir Bubble Blog. The New Stack’s author page retains its older current-role wording; his owned career archive supplies the later transition.[2][1][3]
Contributions
His Flue 2 interview asks Fred Schott why the agent framework adopted React-style hooks. An agent is a JavaScript function reevaluated before each model turn; hooks manage state and attach capabilities as circumstances change. A support agent can, for example, gain an account-management tool after identity verification. MacManus connects that mechanism to composability, the underlying Pi harness and host portability. He is the reporter and interviewer, while Schott is Flue’s creator.[5]
Tools, writing & talks
Writing, research & talks
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An interview explaining why Flue’s agent configuration changes dynamically through hooks.
Start with the hooks example and the discussion of why file-based routing did not fit early users. JavaScript or React familiarity helps; it is an interview and architectural introduction rather than a complete installation guide.
Reporter and interviewer[5]Original source