Writing
Field notes on agentic engineering — harnesses, orchestration, and what it's like to stop reading your own code.
In Memory of Jax
A poem for my beloved dog Jax
A Better Claude Code CLI: Custom Statusline Script
A quick tip for Claude Code users: add a custom statusline hook to see model info, API limits, context usage, and git branch at a glance.
2025 Year in Review: The Evolution of an Agentic Engineer
How a 26-year veteran developer went from vibe coding to orchestrating AI agents—and shipped 367,000 lines of code across two platforms in eight months. A reflection on growth, process, and why experience still matters in the age of AI.
An Inside Look Into Distributing Development Tasks Across Cloud and Local AI Agents
How I orchestrate cloud agents, local agents, and git worktrees to tackle multiple GitHub issues in parallel—and why spreading the load across compute environments has changed how I think about velocity.
Agentic Spec Writing: How I Use Claude and GitHub CLI to Turn Fuzzy Ideas into Phased Issues
How a custom Claude Code spec-writer command, wired into GitHub CLI and a wall of standards, lets me turn vague feature ideas into precise, 3–8 hour GitHub issues at high velocity.
From Solo Dev to Dev Team: Process Workflow and AI Agents Orchestration Are Multiplying My Output
My evolution from using basic AI coding assistants to orchestrating a full cloud and local AI agent workflow that's producing software at 10-20x my professional pace.
The AI-Powered Development Workflow That's Transforming How I Build Software
How AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Warp have accelerated my development workflow and helped me build Leaderboard Fantasy faster than ever before.
From Spreadsheet to Platform: The Leaderboard Fantasy Story
How a simple spreadsheet for tracking our friends' fantasy golf pool evolved into Leaderboard Fantasy - a platform built to serve thousands of active players.
Deploy Your Spring Boot App to Google Cloud in One Command
A step-by-step guide to deploying Spring Boot applications to Google App Engine. From zero to production with gcloud app deploy.