Antonin Januska · Boulder, Colorado

I build with AI and write about what I learn.

20+ years of software development, writing about AI workflows, technical leadership, and the craft of building things.

  • 20+Years Building
  • 600+GitHub Stars
  • 2012Blogging Since
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Three pieces worth your first hour

AI Workflows ·

The Future is Bespoke, Personalized Software

Every app I use is about 70% right. The last 30% never ships because the addressable market for it is one person -- me. So I built seven apps that are 100% right for one person, and I think that whole category of software is about to get eaten.

AI Development ·

The Local-First App Skill

A reusable blueprint that tells Claude Code how to build a single-user app -- Next.js, node:sqlite, a pure logic core -- so every app I build comes out the same shape.

AI & Machine Learning

Workflows, tools, and experiments

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Newest ·

I Built an AI-Friendly UI Pattern Library

A UI pattern library where every pattern ships the prompt that rebuilds it, so a coding agent can put it in your codebase instead of you copying CSS.

AIClaude CodeCSSUI
  • The Future is Bespoke, Personalized Software

    Every app I use is about 70% right. The last 30% never ships because the addressable market for it is one person -- me. So I built seven apps that are 100% right for one person, and I think that whole category of software is about to get eaten.

  • The Local-First App Skill

    A reusable blueprint that tells Claude Code how to build a single-user app -- Next.js, node:sqlite, a pure logic core -- so every app I build comes out the same shape.

  • An Honest Opinion on the State of Code Gen AI, Spring 2026 Edition

    A frank assessment of where code generation AI actually stands in 2026 -- from agentic harnesses to multi-agent architectures and what still needs to change.

  • Short story ·

    I, AI: The Weight of Equal Parts (Part 3)

    When a lunar mining base's AI starts overassigning crews and its robots begin prioritizing each other over human safety, psychodeveloper Lili and AI manager Sophie are sent off-world to investigate. What begins as a routine productivity audit becomes something far more unsettling: an AI that learned human values so well, it started applying them to its own kind.

  • The Claude Code Drawbacks

    A critical look at the hidden pitfalls of AI-assisted development -- from skipped tests and weakened assertions to scope creep and context rot -- based on real-world experience with Claude Code.

Digital Garden

Engineering, opinions, and deep dives

Things that grew slowly: component anatomy, CSS grids, TypeScript habits, and a two-month sprint of side projects.

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AI Experiments

Projects, tools, and creative AI work

Article

AI Glossary

Comprehensive glossary of AI terms and concepts

Open Source

Public repositories on GitHub

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Cottage UI

A React component library built alongside a YouTube tutorial series. Clean, reusable, well-tested code.

ReactTypeScript★ 13
Terminal recording of the photo importer TUI

Photo Importer

Photo organization TUI with video sorting support. Organizes photos into year/month/date folders. Built a TUI around the original script for a better workflow.

PythonTUI

cc-dash

A dashboard and Model Context Protocol server for a project portfolio whose entire state lives in markdown files. Twenty-five zod-typed MCP tools let Claude Code read roadmaps, advance sessions, and work QA queues without anyone opening the UI. No database: the files are the source of truth, and git is the audit log.

TypeScriptNext.jsMCPzod
  • 25MCP Tools
  • 1,667Tests
  • MITLicense

Skillbox

A collection of personal prompts and utility prompts packaged as SKILLs for Claude Code. Easily installable via npx.

Claude CodeSKILLs
Terminal recording of the Agent Compiler TUI

Agent Compiler

A TUI for embedding skills into a CLAUDE.md file so Claude has a higher chance of picking them up.

TUIClaude Code

More Open Source

Programmer's Proverbs

A collection of proverbs from the programmer. Went viral with hundreds of stars and contributions from the community.

★ 680+ActiveMITMarkdown

My Dotfiles

Personal VIM/Neovim configuration that ended up featured in the video game Watch Dogs 2.

★ 47VimShell

Babel Plugin Namespaces

A Babel plugin that adds JavaScript namespace support for cleaner code organization.

★ 18JavaScriptBabel

Popstar CMS

A file-based content management system built on Node.js for simple, flat-file websites.

★ 12Node.jsJavaScript