What limits how well we use AI stopped being model capability a while ago — it's that the data about me isn't mine. Any product can be swapped out; the only thing keeping you in place is the context that has settled inside it. I built a personal database to fix that, and building it showed me it's only a mirror.
12 min read
31 Jul
What began as a cited Q&A assistant for this site became two interfaces over Kioku: a public RAG path for visitors and a private MCP tool surface for my AI, sharing one source of truth without sharing permissions.
10 min read
25 Jun
How I use Ghostty tabs as project slots and tmux as the split manager — why tabs stay visible, why splits live in tmux, and the config choices that make eight projects open at once stop feeling like eight projects open at once.
7 min read
22 Apr
Worktrees, agent teams, and in-conversation subagents — when to reach for each, how they actually work under the hood, and the tradeoffs I've hit using them day-to-day.
7 min read
16 Apr
Why I split the editor and the agent across two apps, how tmux keeps Claude Code sessions alive when the window closes, and the small configuration quirks that make it all feel native.
11 min read
15 Apr
Thirteen Mac apps I use every day as a developer — from terminals and editors to voice input, remote access, and credential management. Each one solves a specific problem.
11 min read
14 Apr
A walkthrough of Claude Code from the ground up — what it is, how configuration scopes work, and the rules, plugins, hooks, auto memory, and CLI glue that make it click for day-to-day engineering work.
18 min read
14 Apr
A practical breakdown of CSR, SSR, SSG and ISR in Next.js App Router — with code examples, data flow diagrams, and real use cases.
5 min read
05 Jun