When someone proposed replacing the Kubernetes platform I'd built with something simpler, I didn't argue in meetings. I wrote 60 pages. The argument that won wasn't about features — it was about what happens when things go wrong.
I needed emulators that could script input and capture screenshots on demand. Nothing on the market did that. So I built four of them with AI — in a language I don't know — guided by decades of knowing what correct looks like.
After twenty years, people assume you either moved into management or failed to. There's a third option: you chose not to, because that's not where you have the most impact.
I needed a quiz app for corporate training. Three npm packages, vanilla JavaScript, and a polling fallback later, it works everywhere - including networks that block modern web features.
An assembly education platform, an iOS card game, and an artillery game I've been trying to build since the early 2000s. Claude finally got them over the line.
Early in my career, I built ticketing systems for arts venues. Our platform could be bulletproof - but if the client's backend fell over, the on-sale still failed. That taught me how to build resilience around dependencies I couldn't control.
In 2020, I wrote a theoretical warning about microservices. Then I spent three years inside 120 of them. Here's what the theory didn't prepare me for.
Artillery warfare on iOS with destructible terrain, physics-based ballistics, and turn-based multiplayer. Currently in TestFlight beta.
Learn assembly programming by building complete retro games on C64, ZX Spectrum, NES, and Amiga. Docker-based toolchains eliminate setup friction, so you can focus on understanding how computers actually work.
A strategic card game with a twist: the last player standing loses. Play solo against AI, locally via Game Center, or online (coming soon). Based on 30 years of family tradition.
Brings CSS Highlights API performance to your Markdown workflow. Perfect for technical blogs drowning in code examples - this Remark plugin delivers the same 90% DOM reduction without touching your build pipeline. Astro and Next.js ready.
Born from frustration with bloated syntax highlighting, this library slashes DOM nodes by 90% using the CSS Highlights API. What used to take 180KB and thousands of spans now takes 45KB and renders in a fraction of the time.