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I had become the postman between my agents and the business, so I built a small MCP service that lets agents ask people directly and took myself out of the loop.

October 16, 2026
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A self-hosted memory store I own end to end, so my agents' working context survives the loss of any account, vendor or machine, and nothing goes down a memory hole unless I put it there.

October 7, 2026
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One small app on my Mac that turns Slack channels into Claude Code agents, with memory, feedback and lots of guardrails, and that I can talk to from the car through CarPlay.

October 2, 2026
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Building a retrieval-augmented agent that scrapes a website with Firecrawl, indexes it in Qdrant, and answers questions about it using LangFlow — no custom orchestration code required.

June 26, 2026
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Moving beyond predefined categories to discover natural patterns in app review data using vector embeddings, dimensionality reduction, and unsupervised clustering techniques.

May 9, 2026
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Building a natural language interface to query databases using Langflow — from SQL generation to automated chart creation, enabling non-technical users to explore data through conversation.

April 30, 2026
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AI-assisted app development can boost productivity, but it comes with challenges like inconsistent UI generation, unnecessary duplication, and prompt management issues. By organizing requirements in indexed files, generating standards documentation, and codifying rules with custom prompts, I streamlined my workflow and improved alignment across UI, functionality, and architecture.

July 19, 2025
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Lessons from rebuilding a blog using AI tools — what worked, what didn’t, and why engineering fundamentals matter more than ever.

July 16, 2025
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A year ago we launched our Engineering Badge program. This post talks about what it is, why we needed it and how it's going.

April 9, 2025
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September 18, 2024
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We are currently using a proprietary ETL tool. Whilst it is very capable, skills and support in the market are scarce. I wanted to see what Open Source alternatives are available and see if they could be used to simplify some of our ETL flows.

September 4, 2024
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We've just completed a proof of concept on Backstage - an Internal Developer Portal from Spotify. Here's what we learned...

June 19, 2024
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