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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