Blissful ignorance
At 17, I applied to be the Cleveland Indians' stadium organist without ever taking a piano lesson. They never even wrote back. Twenty years later, I'm convinced that kind of delusion is worth protecting.
Dave Kiss
Thoughts on building, shipping, and life.
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My spare Claude tokens research charities while I sleep
My Claude Max meter resets whether I use it or not. My friend Hank built a way to point the leftovers at nonprofit research, and the pattern goes way beyond charity.
Just-in-time integrations
If the adapter doesn't exist, you can just make it. Point an agent at the docs, let it discover the endpoints, generate a CLI, and move on with your life.
The LLM line
LLMs make human output fuzzy. Is it still human-made?
Your AI agent has amnesia
Your AI agent has three different types of amnesia, and each one needs a different treatment. A medical guide to memory tools for Claude Code, Cursor, and beyond.
Our stage lighting is a shower curtain and a smart home light
I built a system that changes my band's stage lighting when I switch guitar presets. It's absurd, but it works. We've used it at five shows. Claude Code wrote most of it.
Stop calling it vibe coding
Vibe coding had its moment. But what senior engineers are doing with AI agents isn't vibes—it's agentic coding.
Agentic ergonomics
We spent decades optimizing interfaces for humans. Now we need to optimize for the agents working alongside them.
Burnboard, a leaderboard for your AI coding token burn
A transparent little experiment that turns OpenTelemetry from Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex into a public leaderboard, plus the part where we talk about whether this is a good idea.
Whimsy is free now
The ROI calculation for delight has changed. When polish takes 10 minutes instead of 10 hours, why wouldn't you?
The 1000 commits problem
Software is moving faster than humans can manage. The old ways don't scale to AI-assisted velocity.
I rebuilt my entire website via Telegram
How I migrated 18 blog posts from Notion to Astro without opening my laptop—just by texting an AI agent from bed.
Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper
In a world where ideas are cheap and software is cheaper, what truly matters now?
I had write access to lebronjames.com hours before The Decision (2014)
As a Cleveland developer, I was just checking LeBron's website for clues about his 2014 decision. I found more than I ever expected.
Where do meetups go when they die?
My work on my seven-year-old tech meetup, We Make the Internet, is dead. What happens now?
Work without work
Combat the societal pressure of busyness by prioritizing self-improvement and meaningful activities over mere quantifiable output. Celebrate the choices not taken and focus on getting better each day, regardless of visible results.
Call AI Santa to tell him your Christmas List
Learn about how I built an interactive app that lets users chat with an AI Santa Claus in real time, powered by Laravel Cloud and OpenAI's Realtime Voice API.
Cursor invented the 25x engineer
Don't get left behind—find out why Cursor might be the most transformative devtool you'll ever use.