Building AGFS.dev on my wife's MacBook Neo with an AI agent
Why the citrus MacBook Neo is more capable than it looks, and why AI-assisted coding makes it a legit first developer machine.
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Member of Technical Staff @ Augment Code focused on resilient systems, pragmatic leadership, and building tools that keep teams shipping.
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Building AGFS.dev to make remote agent files easy to share
Why I built AGFS.dev for remote agent workflows, why Git is the wrong tool for artifacts, and how I put the web app plus CLI together.
The Curious Engineer Wins in the Age of AI
AI changed the tools, not the trait that matters most. Curious engineers still have the edge.
When AI in an interview fails you
I used AI heavily in a technical interview, felt great about the build, and still got rejected because the team could not gauge enough of my understanding.
Building hackernews-tui in 30 minutes with OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex
I built and shipped a Hacker News terminal UI in about 30 minutes using OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex, then published it straight to npm from the Codex app.
Building SoloAgent to understand AI harnesses
I built SoloAgent as an AI harness experiment to understand how model, tool, state, and execution loops work in practice.
The 6-hour build and why technical interviewing needs to change
Building TripHaven in about six hours made one thing clear: interviews should test end-to-end product replication and engineering judgment, not isolated feature trivia.
My first technical interview in the AI era
I walked out of my first technical interview feeling off, and it forced me to rethink interview formats, AI, and pressure.
Launching uutil.space
A simple utility app with developer tools baked in, so I can run quick helpers from anywhere on the web.
The Pivot: Reusing a Stable SaaS Codebase for EasyAccessQR.com
How a stable SaaS foundation made it fast to launch EasyAccessQR.com, with analytics, A/B testing, and a full design-flow rewrite.
What engineers are feeling right now
My take on why so many engineers feel the pressure, but few of us say it out loud.
Weekend reset: rest is part of the grind
A reminder from the job search season: stepping back for a weekend can be the exact thing that helps you push harder on Monday.
Launching llink.space
Why I finally built llink.space as a link-in-bio home base after putting it off for years.
Launching imposter.fm
Why I created imposter.fm as a podcast host to talk through what engineering feels like in the AI era while navigating layoff uncertainty.
Use your git history to write a resume that reflects real work
A practical workflow for using `.git` with Claude or Codex to turn shipped commits into accurate, role-tailored resume bullets.
Cold sweat, inbox check, first rejection
Four days after sending 14+ job applications, I woke up in a cold sweat and opened my first rejection email.
Building a full SaaS in less than a day with Claude and Codex
How I shipped dailystand.dev with organizations, teams, members, analytics, billing, and observability in under 24 hours.
Reviving old projects in an AI era
How revisiting old ideas after a layoff reignited my creative drive and compressed weeks of work into hours with Claude and Codex.
Being laid off from Token Terminal
Losing my role at Token Terminal forced me to confront how quickly this industry is changing and what resilience looks like now.
Productivity is high but motivation is low
The uneven emotional math of shipping faster with AI while feeling less attached to the work.
AI has changed the way I code
How my day-to-day shifted from mostly typing to mostly prompting, and what that unlocked.
Console log with implicitly returned React components
Sometimes it can be annoying when you are trying to quickly console log something within a component that it implicitily returned, here is a quick trick.
Getting started with React and ViteJS
In this blog post I go over the basic scaffolding of building out a starter React app using ViteJS and explain ViteJS works compared to something like your traditional module loaders such as Webpack.
Twitter Share Feature
Easily adding a simple share button to a blog around sharing on Twitter
Building a Subscription Feature
Using Fastify and Sendgrid to build out a simple opt-in newsletter subscription feature so that I can start to gain a contact list to send out new blog posts.
How To Start a Pair Programming Routine
Pair programming is a side hobby that I have found to help me branch out and learn from local developers in my community. I strongly suggest going for it if you can fit it into your schedule.
Getting Around API Rate Limiting
Anyone who has had to work with an external API knows the problems that can occur when there are a lot of users hitting endpoints that directly pull from the external API's.