Field notes

Notes from the studio.

Short writing on going from zero to live products. Product, design, and code on AI rails. Roughly weekly.

  1. Goodbye, WordPress.

    I migrated two sites off CMSes to straight HTML in a couple hours. No plugins, no PHP, no theme ecosystem. The middleware layer is over.

  2. The architect's side.

    My brother called me on a Tuesday. He was going to build an app. Here's what it looked like from the other side of the room.

  3. The em dash—caught in the crossfire.

    Someone told me they could tell AI wrote my post. Their evidence? An em dash. They're not entirely wrong — they're just wrong about what the tell actually is.

    3 min
  4. Down the rabbit hole.

    A year ago I'd been out of the IDE for fifteen years. Last week I shipped a feature at 2am. How a generalist fell into AI and stopped wondering if breadth was a mistake.

    5 min

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