Developer experience is a real lever most teams underinvest in. The friction is small each time and invisible on any roadmap, which is exactly why it never gets fixed.

The frontend is local, but the state that drives it is remote. Here's the friction that creates, and the panel I built to get cheap control over it.

A look at workon, my Claude Code plugin that carries a ticket to a merge request, what it runs, what it refuses to do, and how it changes my day.

What I learned building skills for an AI coding harness: where the boundary between a skill and a script goes, why the description has a budget, and how to make one fire only when you ask.

My AI assistant is genuinely good at one thing: writing the code in front of it. Everything wrapped around that is still mine, and that turned out to be most of the job.

From nginx reverse proxies to simple HTTPS local domains in minutes. Here's how Portless transformed my Mac mini server setup.

How I brought Frutiger Aero and Solarpunk aesthetics to my blog using AI image generation and Opal

I used to hate Tailwind. Now I use it for 80% of my styling—but native CSS handles the rest. Here's why this hybrid approach works.