My agent setup
I'm a month into building a staff of six agents. This is how they run, communicate, and help across a few products and a nonprofit.
Chad Arimura
My thoughts on programming, Java, building companies, devrel, and more.
Latest posts
Buzz in Action
Block's new Nostr-based Slack alternative, a Droplet full of agents, and an Obsidian vault they all share. Open protocols might finally be useful in the age of agents.
Announcing The Daily FM
I built it because I wanted a daily summary of the latest AI news sent to my podcast app, and then realized it was useful in summarizing a lot of other stuff too. Releasing it to see if anyone else thinks it's interesting.
It's still about the people...
I recently came across a list of events Iron.io was a part of in some way. It got me thinking about the before times, when San Francisco felt small and we were optimistic that we were building the future of the developer stack.
Hermes-flare: Self-hosted Hermes Agent running on Cloudflare
An agent that talks to me on Slack, persists between restarts, and runs every shell command it issues in a completely separate sandbox from itself.
Giving agents a brain + a Mac menu bar for Claude sessions
Experimenting with a hybrid Karpathy-style Obsidian vault for agent memory, and discovering how easy native Swift menubar apps are.
Thanks and Onward, 2026
Almost 10 years after the acquisition, the same blog post title is announcing the close of my time at Oracle.
Claude Butler
I've been thinking about things Claude Code could do on a schedule, so I tried to solve this problem and it worked nicely. I now have a private podcast feed of YouTube videos I'd like to listen to on the go.
Building Gus: A Lightweight Terminal Agent in Modern Java
I built a terminal AI agent in Java 25 to explore LangChain4j and modern Java features like sealed classes, pattern matching, and text blocks. It's named after my dog who also needs better training.
Getting jpackage to Work with CrowdStrike
How to properly code sign jpackage applications to avoid CrowdStrike quarantine on macOS.
The Lost Art of Slow Gaming
Finding games for kids that are slow, thoughtful, creative, and void of dark patterns in today's digital landscape.
Losing Touch with the Inner Workings
As I use AI tools to solve time-consuming things, I find myself becoming less and less aware of how those things work under the hood.
The Individualized Creator Economy
What I find interesting in this example is this trend towards, what I'm calling to myself the Individualized Creator Economy, or ICE for sure.
Building Arc (in a few hours)
I wanted to write a blog post about some OpenCV stuff I did in Java using the Foreign Function & Memory API, but then realized, I didn't have a blog. I couldn't bare using some Javascript engine, so I built my own in Cursor. It's called Arc. This post is both about Arc, and the experience of building it in a few hours.
My New Personal Site
I needed another blog post to show that Arc works, so here it is.
Creating the Boom 💥 Emoji
The story of how we created the original boom emoji in 2012 for HipChat that eventually became global across Slack and other platforms.
Thanks and Onward
Iron.io was acquired by Xenon Ventures. Many of the team members are staying and will continue to grow the business. As for what's next, me, Travis, and some members of the Iron engineering team will be joining Oracle.