Field notes.

I shipped two small, local, single-purpose tools in one week. Bogyman tells me which coding agent is waiting on me, on what, and for how long. Tinycap turns what is on my screen into a small file I can drop into a pull request. Both exist because the job left to the person is supervision.

Five products turned the language model from something you talk to into something that acts for you. Each one handed the model a job a person used to do — and handed the person a new one back.

Three days at a Product Summit — 1H reflection, 2H big bets, and a day of open proposals — left me with more questions about engineering than about product. Notes on the gaps between top-down and bottom-up, early and burned-out AI adopters, and what a "bet" actually is.

I built a three-platform AI product alone for $725 of tooling and under $45/month to run. The interesting part was never the speed — it was what it changed about how I would lead a team.

How I went from idea to a live receipt-scanning app in one day, and what 444 receipts, the first 100 users, and an unexpected Canadian audience taught me about building in the LLM era.

Three years modernizing a multi-brand healthcare platform — what I learned about monorepos, GraphQL gateways, and why sharing packages beats sharing apps.

Personal reflections on 2025: navigating the AI revolution, rediscovering photography, traveling across continents, and finding balance in a year of rapid change.

A Winter Journey Through the UK and Ireland: Exploring London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and More

What I've learned about building systems, patterns, and clarity in a multi-brand environment

From zero laps to 1000 yards: A practical, honest guide to learning swimming as an adult, including what gear to buy, how to structure lessons, and what actually works.

A comprehensive guide exploring when, why, and how organizations should approach re-platforming initiatives to drive business growth and technological advancement.

How individual contributors can lead effectively without formal authority—through influence, expertise, and collaborative strategies.

GraphQL Summit 2022 takeaways: the 5 talks I recommend from 22, including Netflix and Fidelity on Apollo Federation, Reddit’s supergraph and Apollo Router 1.0.

Moving to the suburbs, running half the days of the year, baking sourdough and getting a driver's license — what I started in 2021 and want to try next.

Single page apps and search crawlers don't mix, and grocery adds store-level assortment on top. Weighing SSR, NoScript tags and prerendering for bots.

Shipping Order Status at Peapod: push notifications, invoice emails, and a 30-minute ETA in place of a two-hour window, plus what the usage data showed.

A year of meal kits, food waste and a grocery co-op, alongside shipping Order Status at Peapod, starting a hackathon and mentoring our first interns.

I injected CSS into an Electron build of Peapod.com to give it a night mode. What inverted badly, and the Chrome extension it eventually turned into.

Naming things and vertically centering things. Four ways to center in CSS — absolute, table cell, flexbox and grid — with tradeoffs, plus BEM naming.

Our order confirmation email broke only in the Android Gmail IMAP app. The fix was swapping semantically correct TH cells for TD. HTML email has no standard.

Peapod took grocery orders in 1989 with no browser required. A visual tour of its landing page from the MS-DOS blue screen through the flat UI era.

Why Peapod audits for WCAG 2.0 Level AA, and how we shipped it: site-wide high-contrast mode, full keyboard navigation, and tested VoiceOver support.

A year of cooking unfamiliar cuisines taught me what engineering does: you get good by practicing, reading and failing. Plus the daily rules I set.

Coming from C, Java and PHP, I assumed languages were interchangeable. Immutable variables and first-class functions in Scala changed my mind.

Bootstrap made the certificate responsive in minutes; printing it took much longer. Why DOMPDF, TCPDF and jsPDF fell short, and how media queries fixed it.

My barber's booking system had no public API, so I scripted the undocumented one behind their web app — and found it had no authentication at all.

MacTeX is a huge download. How I compile .tex files from any editor with one Docker command, updated for the 2026 rebuild with latexmk and XeLaTeX.