August 10, 2026 · 4 min read
In search of the holy kale: meal planning with Claude
The most useful AI systems I've built aren't for work. This one decides what's for dinner, and it knows I like cooking in a wok.
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Notes from building with AI.
Longer, more technical versions of what I post on LinkedIn. Real builds, real numbers, the occasional face-plant, and always something you can take away and use.
August 3, 2026 · 4 min read
The SOP test: how I decide what to hand to an agent
The moment I catch myself thinking 'I could write an SOP for this' is now the moment I stop doing the task myself.
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No connector? Design the handoff.
There was no integration between Claude and Microsoft Forms. Two hours of manual work became 20 minutes anyway. The trick was in the handoff.
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A long chat thread is the most expensive workspace you have
Your 30th prompt pays for the other 29. How I split one overloaded thread into three clean ones without losing the context that mattered.
Read the postJuly 13, 2026 · 7 min read
Four hours in the air to land where I started
A boomerang flight, a tray table, and a years-old idea became a live product in two days. The code was never the hard part.
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A development mirror, built from my own emails
Six months of my own Slack, email, and meeting transcripts, read back to me as a behavioral assessment. It stung, and it held up.
Read the postJuly 6, 2026 · 6 min read
The code is the boring part
An AI agent caught a bot scraping my site and blocked it before I opened a dashboard. The interesting part is why that's normal now.
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