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The Astro migration left me with a generic blog.

Agentic coding finally made tmux worth the trouble.

TUIs are fun again.

Every new agentic AI improvement promises a win — but does yours pay off?

Can a markdown persisted designed system stay aligned while iterating on changes with an AI?

Apple shipped an entry level laptop for students and light tasks, but in the age of AI agents that can do work and be managed remotely, the MacBook Neo might be the perfect AI remote control.

The best financial planning software was never sold to you.

A decade of self-hosted Ghost, quietly taxing me.

What streak can you achieve using a keyboard for everything without resorting to the mouse?

The first local tooling standard for LLM's to use tools on device.

A quick sketch illustrating why frequent iteration and learning validates direction to prevent going too far of course.

Clear boundaries, ownership, and guidance across org structure and software architecture empower teams to not get bogged down with compounding hidden coordination costs.

Without clarity and alignment software teams risk interpreting activity as progress.

Standing desk reminders fail for the same reason diets do.

Performance and accessibility degrade quietly between releases if nothing is measuring them.

Third-party JavaScript can become a liability without you changing a single line.

A site can slow down commit by commit and you'd never know.

Busyness and productivity are not the same thing in software teams.

Link rot is invisible until a reader hits it.

What works for Google probably doesn't apply to the rest of us.

Your dotfiles probably haven't been tested on a clean machine in years.

Static key remapping only gets you so far.

Keyboard shortcuts don't stick when you can never find the reference.

Accelerate is the rare software book that brings data instead of opinions.

The repo finder worked.

FZF is a tool that useful and easy to weave in to your needs.

Skipping three major Swift versions at once is a bad idea.

Popping open a browser to find a repo breaks the command-line flow.

Documentation is most accurate the day it's written and wrong when needed.

An alert nobody acts on is just noise with a timestamp.

Most DevOps books are one person's opinion.

Renaming things Agile isn't transformation.

Integration flexibility is easy to undervalue until you need to change direction.

My dotfiles v1 setup for provisioning a clean mac.

The most interesting Prometheus work in 2018 wasn't inside Prometheus.

Upgrading Ghost 0.5 to 2.x is not a trivial migration.

A 48-hour deadline teaches scoping faster than any process ever will.

Great software starts with hiring, not process.

Manually resizing Xcode panes dozens of times a day adds up.

Shorter isn't always better, and sleep helps you see the difference.

Writing less Swift isn't the goal.

Exciting times for Apple and Swift.

Four years, seven apps, awards, press, declining revenue, and a decision.