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§ Notes · index

Working notes.

A record of thinking on engineering, product, and software craft.

July 2026
Engineering3 min

The knowledge system, part 1: capture versus structure

Two knowledge bases and one stalled migration later, the tool was never the problem. Structure and capture were.

June 2026
Engineering3 min

Working with AI, slowly

3 years of working with AI on code. The thing that changed most wasn't the models.

June 2026
Engineering5 min

A web developer's notes on React Native

React Native isn't just React on a phone. But it's closer than I expected, and stranger than I expected, often at the same time.

May 2026
Engineering3 min

Vibe coding for yourself

I had the idea for years. One vibe coding session proved the approach could work. A weekend later, the spreadsheet workflow was replaced.

May 2026
Engineering5 min

Vibe coding Interval Coach

4 hours from blank repository to deployed app, and the process that actually got it there.

May 2026
Engineering3 min

The cost of starting

Vibe coding changed the economics of starting a project. I want to build the habit around it.

April 2026
Engineering5 min

How AI changed the shape of software engineering

AI didn't make software engineering faster so much as it moved the bottleneck somewhere else entirely.