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AI & Tools
Agent workflows and tools examined through experiments, worklogs, and practical limits.
Blog
This is one body of work organized into five editorial tracks. Each track keeps a stable voice and reading rhythm, while tags connect related ideas across the whole collection.
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Editorial Tracks
Every post belongs to one track with its own subject, reading rhythm, and voice. Tags connect ideas across tracks.
15 posts
Engineering Systems
Architecture, reliability, languages, and the mechanisms behind engineering choices.
16 posts
Field Notes
Personal history, retrospectives, portfolios, and observations from work in progress.
6 posts
Leadership & Teams
Ownership, autonomy, communication, and the systems that shape how teams operate.
18 posts
Quest Engine
The connected framework, from Search, Drive, and Renew to practical applications.
Stop Conflating Effort Tracking with Work Tracking
Why effort tracking (where is my time going?) needs to be separate from work tracking (what am I building?) and how centralizing effort in one tool provides visibility that scattered work-tracking systems can't.
Why I Switched to Worklogs (and You Should Too)
How worklogs transformed my workflow with AI coding agents (capturing context across sessions, using GitHub Issues as a backend, and turning structured logs into an agentic work queue).
My AI Tools Journey Since Claude Opus 4.5: Rust, Scripting Languages, and the Evolution of Agent-Driven Development
Reflecting on my experience using AI coding tools since Claude Opus 4.5, contrasting Rust and scripting language development, and insights on multi-agent workflows.
The Evolution of Keyboard Layout Config Mapper: When Agents Are Better Than Automation
A deep dive into how a keyboard configuration project evolved from manual Go programming to agent-assisted development, and the surprising realization that having agents make direct changes is simpler than writing code to automate everything.
Building This Blog: A Meta Journey with AI Agents
How this entire blog system was created using AI agents, including the technical implementation, content creation, and instructions for adding new posts.
Longest Path into Learning Data Structures and Algorithms for the Tech Interview
A nontraditional software developer's path through bootcamp, Princeton, and MIT courses to build the algorithms foundation needed for technical interviews.
Apple Chips == AR Glasses
A 2020 prediction that Apple's move away from Intel would connect its custom chips, graphics, gaming ambitions, and eventual AR hardware.
2016: One Year of iPad Pro 12.9"
One year with the original 12.9-inch iPad Pro, from its battery life and speakers to the compromises of typing on glass.
From Creative Tools to Software Engineering
How a yellow film camera, video editing, web design, Python, Swift, and open source gradually revealed that programming had been part of my creative work all along.
Media Projects & Digital Production Portfolio
Video production work spanning documentary, commercial, and technical content. From humanitarian missions to commercial products.