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Notes from the workbench.
Thinking out loud about PHP, AI tooling, ABA software, indie hacking, and whatever else I'm shipping this month.
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2026
7 posts
05·14
Stop stuffing every AI rule into one root file: apply-agent-rules
Most projects pile every AI agent rule into a single root CLAUDE.md and the file balloons past a thousand lines. Subdirectory rule files are a much better idea — and apply-agent-rules makes them practical.
#ai
#tooling
~6 min
04·24
One LLM Isn't Enough: The Data
Two months of multi-model code review across 217 commits and 1,514 findings. Consensus is rarer than I thought, and 87% of real bugs were caught by exactly one model.
#ai
#review
#data
~9 min
04·03
One LLM Isn't Enough
Relying on a single AI model to write and review your code is asking the student to grade their own homework. Here's the multi-model pipeline I run on every commit.
#ai
#review
~5 min
02·20
Getting More Out of Claude Code: Tips for New Users
Treat Claude Code like a very fast junior developer who needs clear direction. A handful of habits — plan mode, scoped @ references, skills — make the difference between magic and mess.
#ai
#claude-code
~3 min
01·19
The New Skill in Software Development isn't Coding
I shipped a web app to both app stores and ported a React app to native Swift for Apple TV — with no prior mobile, React, or Swift experience. The bottleneck isn't prompting. It's knowing what you want.
#ai
#product
#opinion
~5 min
01·16
From Web to Living Room: Porting to Apple TV
How I ported a React application to a native Swift game and shipped to Apple TV — without knowing Swift, or React. AI did the syntax. I knew what I wanted.
#ai
#swift
#product
~5 min
01·13
From Prompt to App Store in 48 Hours
It started with one sentence in Google AI Studio: 'Vampire survivors style game where you fight programming bugs.' 48 hours later it was approved for sale on the App Store.
#ai
#product
~9 min
2021
2 posts
04·23
Dotfiles for Developers — Part 2
Homebrew Bundle, mas-cli, and Mackup. The bits that turn a fresh Mac into a working dev machine in a single command.
#dotfiles
#macos
#tutorial
~7 min
03·23
Dotfiles for Developers — Part 1
Homebrew, iTerm2, Zsh, Oh My Zsh — the small set of tools that turns a fresh Mac into something you actually want to work on.
#dotfiles
#macos
#tutorial
~8 min