Letting CreateRatio's background worker go idle
How a small polling guard lets an inactive background worker exit without losing pending activity or resuming with stale settings.
Things I learn while building.
Notes on code, tools, AI, and small improvements that compound.
Articles
31 entries in the notebook
CreateRatio, my first browser extension
CreateRatio is live in the Chrome Web Store, an open-source extension to be more intentional with your time on LinkedIn.
The main bottlenecks in my agentic coding setup
Hardware, Git conflicts, and the token economy in an agentic coding workflow.
When would you choose a less capable AI model?
Engineering reasons beyond cost for choosing a smaller or less capable AI model.
Exploring Active Noise Cancellation with AI
Following a headphone repair rabbit hole into an AI-assisted explainer about Active Noise Cancellation.
Human guardrails behind Claude's speed improvements
What Claude's performance work shows about human ambition, taste, guardrails, and measurement.
Grok bot can react with emojis
An unexpected emoji reaction from Grok bot.
Learning from Code with Claude
Useful insights from Claude's developers and product managers across Code, Platforms, and Research.
Claude Community workshop at The LAB Miami
Learning, connecting, and checking website and business blind spots with Miami's Claude community.
Context and constraints at PMG's Pinterest hackathon
Preserving product fidelity while adapting ad creatives to Pinterest trends at PMG's hackathon.
Beyond containers: hardening my local development environment
Reducing the blast radius with containers, an egress proxy, ephemeral secrets, and scoped AI tool permissions.
Parse PHP array inside a string
Understanding how to parse PHP arrays inside of strings.
