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01 2026-03-11 HOW CODING AGENTS WORK (AND WHY YOU'RE STILL THE ENGINEER) Coding agents are powerful but they don't know your organization, your constraints, or anything truly novel. Here's how I think about the split.

AI WORKFLOW AGENTS

02 2017-07-26 HOW TO MAKE GIFS The tools I use to capture, trim, and optimize GIFs for posts and docs.

TOOLS WORKFLOW

03 2017-05-19 WHAT IS ANDROID THINGS? Android Things is Android OS without the UI, running on small devices like Raspberry Pi — and it's more useful than the landing page suggests.

ANDROID IOT HARDWARE

04 2017-04-11 NG CONF 2017 NOTES Boiled-down notes from NG Conf 2017 — CLI best practices, TypeScript, i18n, component libraries, and more.

ANGULAR JAVASCRIPT CONFERENCES

05 2017-02-16 VIM CHEAT SHEET The Vim tricks I reach for most often — opening files, tabs, windows, modes, and a few tips to make it feel natural.

VIM TOOLS WORKFLOW

06 2017-01-02 PUBLISH TO THE DISTRIBUTED WEB IN 3 COMMANDS Install Dat and Beaker Browser, run three commands, and you're hosting a site on the distributed web from your own machine.

DAT DECENTRALIZED WEB

07 2016-10-24 REFORMAT A COMMENT BLOCK TO REQUIRED WIDTH AUTOMATICALLY When edited comment blocks get messy, Atom's Reflow Selection and Vim's gq command fix them instantly.

VIM ATOM WORKFLOW

08 2016-10-23 GETTING STARTED WITH MDWIKI Five commands to spin up an mdWiki blog locally — no build step, just markdown and a Python server.

MARKDOWN TOOLS BLOGGING

09 2016-08-16 WILL FARMERS MAKE MONEY FROM DATA? Jaron Lanier's argument about information and the middle class applies to farmers too — but lowering transaction costs might be the missing piece.

AGRICULTURE DATA ECONOMICS

10 2014-08-24 MAKE HABITRPG SAFE FOR WORK A few lines of jQuery in the browser console — or a bookmarklet — to hide HabitRPG's distracting UI elements at work.

JAVASCRIPT TOOLS PRODUCTIVITY

11 2014-07-20 IS OUR FRIDGE TOO WARM? Using a Fido temperature sensor to monitor a fridge and send text alerts — and the debugging adventure that followed.

HARDWARE IOT OPEN-SOURCE