







I like building tools, breaking workflows, and putting them back together better.
Building personal tools by programming


I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

Stories | Cyrus
Insights, tutorials, and case studies on AI-powered development workflows. Learn how teams use Cyrus with Linear and Claude Code to ship 20x faster.

Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools | thesephist.com
This March, I spent a couple of days traveling through western Iceland.
Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer
Context matters. Sometimes we need to get things done, sometimes we need to build things to last.

Why I Love Polywork as a Software Developer
If you haven't heard about Polywork yet you're definitely missing out on something exciting. I...

SF: A Birds of a Feather on Agentic Engineering
I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.

Work Smarter: The Cocktail of Simplicity, Manageable Adversity, and Muntzing
Sometimes deliberate roadblocks can be a good thing to get more efficient and effective products and workflow. Here's how.

progression.fyi
A collection of open source frameworks for helping designers and engineers to grow at work

Build, debug & deploy with AI
Query and edit large codebases, generate apps from images or PDFs, and automate complex workflows—all from your terminal with Gemini 3.

Software Bonkers
I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.
Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work - The Official Microsoft Blog
Platforms shift when developers build. We explore, choose tools, dream, create. This platform shift comes with more information than ever, ready at your fingertips. This shift, it’s about building fast AND THEN: it’s about building, operating, optimizing and observing. Securing your infrastructure, applications and agents in a seamless way that doesn’t slow you down from...

Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
This is part one of a two-part series on using AI tools as one piece to fight back against tech company control of our lives. Part two shares the details of how I built my own task management tool …

It's Time To Rethink Everything by @t3dotgg