Personal systems
Small tools, local workflows, personal automation, memory systems, and the practical texture of building an environment around yourself.
The personal operating-system posts: single-serving tools, local context, and software that fits one person exactly.
Start with the case for tiny personal software, then read into tools, memory, and voice.
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- The Rise of Single-Serving Software2 min
The cost of building has collapsed so far that software can now be disposable on purpose -- and that changes what's worth building.
- Building a Developer Environment That Actually Works: My Dotfiles Journey3 min
Most developer environments are optimized for keystrokes. The actual bottleneck is context transfer between you and your AI tools.
- The Day After: Building a System to Remember What Matters2 min
A weekend project that uses the Limitless pendant and API to capture conversations before they fade, delivering a Monday morning digest of decisions...
- Forget Perfect Data: Building a Usable Voice Profile Extractor3 min
I shipped a voice profile extractor at 60% accuracy. Simple pattern matching outperformed ML for writing voice replication.
Everything else
- Scaling the Me Component: How I Built an AI That Thinks Like Me2 min
I built a voice replication system by extracting patterns from my blog corpus. Here's what it captures, what it misses, and what that reveals about...
- OCode: Why I Built My Own Claude Code (and Why You Might Too)3 min
OCode: Why I Built My Own Claude Code (and Why You Might Too): A few nights ago, I opened my Anthropic invoice.
- Engineering Recognition Through Evals: My Technical Journey Building Shout3 min
Building an LLM-powered evaluation system to measure whether engineering recognition is specific, accurate, and connected to impact.
- Chrome Extension for Jira Titles: A Developer's Journey2 min
I kept writing terrible JIRA titles during customer calls. So I built a Chrome extension to fix it.
- The CLI Renaissance: How AI is Driving the Command Line Revolution3 min
AI coding assistants output shell commands, not GUI instructions. That single fact is reversing a decade of developer tooling trends.
- What Actually Failed Building a Multi-AI Content System3 min
I built a multi-AI content pipeline combining Gemini and Claude. The failures taught me more than the architecture.
- Passive-Aggressive Managers Are Organizational Parasites3 min
Stop making excuses for passive-aggressive managers. They are not misunderstood introverts or conflict-averse leaders. They are parasites destroying...