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20+ years of software development, writing about AI workflows, technical leadership, and the craft of building things.
The pick changes with the sky: long guides in the morning, one tool in the afternoon, big ideas at golden hour, fiction after dark. Try another hour from the sky button up top.
Mornings are for the long ones.
Battle-tested practices for AI-first development workflows from 18 months of real-world experience with Claude Code in production environments.
Afternoon slump? Learn one tool properly.
A practical introduction to awk for printing fields, filtering rows, formatting output, and writing useful one-liners.
Golden-hour reading: the big picture.
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.
After dark, read fiction.
When an AI named Enzo fails to function in the real world despite flawless performance in simulations, psychodeveloper Lili and AI manager Sophie investigate what seems impossible: an intelligence that can somehow distinguish between real and simulated environments.
Hand-picked from the whole archive.
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.
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.
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.
The six most recent posts from the AI section.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every post carries the season it was written in.
A look at 17 side projects I built in about two months with Claude Code -- from TUI apps in Rust and Go to browser games and AI agent tooling.
Learn about common React Hooks antipatterns and how to avoid them for better code quality.
Learn the most common CSS Grid layouts with copy-pastable examples for two-column layouts, sidebar navigation, and more.
Consulting, guides, and fiction.
Helping companies implement AI tools and processes effectively
Claude, LLMs, Prompt Engineering
I help companies implement AI workflows and accelerate their development teams.
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