The Software Life • Jun 30, 2026 Keep Web Socket Communication Clear with a Strong Protocol Rust can be used to build a server and client for a browser game. Here is a web socket protocol structure to keep architecture clean.
AI for Developers • Jun 29, 2026 Tired of Reviewing Markdown? Make Yourself an HTML Spec Dashboard Drowning in markdown specs? Here's how I used AI to build a lightweight, regenerable HTML spec dashboard for faster, cleaner reviews.
Extracurricular Activities • Jun 28, 2026 I Turned My Cats Into a Codex Pet I would bring my cats everywhere with me if I could. So, I used codex-pets.net to turn my two tabby cats into a custom Codex Pet.
Personal Optimization • Jun 27, 2026 Teach Your Notes to Talk Back If you're sitting on years of Zettlekasten style notes and finding them harder to use as they grow, this is worth trying.
Extracurricular Activities • Jun 26, 2026 Automating an Art Commission Pipeline with Zapier Why struggle with your current workflow when we can find a solution to the problem using technical tools? Let's check out Zapier.
AI for Developers • Jun 25, 2026 A Hybrid Approach to Agentic Development with Local Models Frontier models are powerful, but increasingly expensive. Are local models a good option for helping to carry some of the workload?
Development Practices • Jun 24, 2026 Human Habits for Leading Agentic Development Projects If you're leading an agentic development project and feel like it's taking some time to get your bearings, you aren't alone.
AWS • Jun 23, 2026 Russian Doll Caching at the Edge Cache the outer fragment. Reuse the inner fragments that did not change. The Rails caching guide calls this Russian doll caching.
Delivery Practices • Jun 22, 2026 The Knowledge That Dies When the Project Goes Live Without good documentation, the architect (me) becomes the primary source for context that should be institutional knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence • Jun 21, 2026 Working with AI Is a Lot Like Building IKEA Furniture I have a soft spot for IKEA furniture because of how adaptable it can be. Working with AI has felt surprisingly similar.
Artificial Intelligence • Jun 20, 2026 What “The Pitt” Gets Right About AI in Medicine If you want to see where clinical AI actually breaks, skip the vendor deck. Watch season two, episode six of "The Pitt."
Effective communication • Jun 19, 2026 How Ineffective Communication Can Be the Real Delivery Bottleneck Good communication has the power to set the foundation for a project to either consistently thrive or to create a bottleneck.
