Writing about building with AI

A running list of practices that made coding agents genuinely more reliable for me, shifting the workflow from generate-and-hope to ship-and-verify. Covers proving the work, isolating sessions, wiring in production signals, and automating setup.

AIClaude Code

8 Wed Jul 2026

You don't need to be a developer to make AI useful for the small businesses, friends, and family near you. Nine practical ways to help them get more customers and sell more, plus the one thing to warn them about.

Why Claude Code follows some instructions and shrugs at others comes down to where they live and when they load. A mental model for CLAUDE.md priority and the order of influence in the context window.

AIClaude Code

7 Tue Jul 2026

AI changed the game, but the path in is still open. A practical guide to choosing a field, building two kinds of CV, and using a 2-skill framework to get hired and paid.

Practical ways to shrink CSS bundles: Tailwind discipline, choosing tree-shakeable UI libs, safe purging, avoiding accidental global CSS, and setting team/AI conventions.

FrontendPerformance

28 Tue Apr 2026

I built Memr to solve a personal problem—remembering scripture. Here's why it lives in my Chrome tabs, my inbox, and soon my pocket.

Side Projects

16 Mon Feb 2026

The essential env vars for shipping SaaS on a budget—auth, database, storage, payments, AI, and mail. Plus how to keep setup cheap and secure.

There is no one way to learn, but knowing a couple will give you a boost.