Essays and field notes from 17+ years of building software and teams
Mostly what I learn by shipping: agentic AI systems, frontend architecture, performance work, and the odd lesson about leading engineers. Written for practitioners, with the trade-offs left in.
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AI
Sep 13, 2026 · 9 min read
How I make AI responses easier to read with writing rules in AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, lessons from technical writing standards, and existing rewrite skills.
AI Tools · Claude · Writing · Productivity
Agentic AI
Apr 25, 2026 · 18 min read
Notes from building on this stack. What each layer actually buys you, where the demos break in production, and the calls I would tell my past self to make sooner.
Agentic AI · ADK · Gemini · A2A
AI
Jul 14, 2025 · 12 min read
What Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are, how to use them, and which ones I actually keep in my daily development workflow.
MCP · AI Tools · Claude · Development
AI
Jan 27, 2025 · 15 min read
A look at how enterprises are actually deploying AI agents: multi-agent orchestration, memory-augmented personalization, and the implementations that survived contact with production.
AI Agents · AI Development · Enterprise AI · Autonomous AI
JavaScript
Dec 15, 2024 · 8 min read
The architectural decisions and patterns we use to build Angular applications that hold up with millions of users and dozens of contributing teams.
Angular · JavaScript · Google · Architecture
JavaScript
Nov 28, 2024 · 6 min read
The JavaScript features from ES6 through ES2024 that actually changed how I write applications, and the ones that did not.
JavaScript · ES2024 · Web Development
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