Writing

Thinking out loud about engineering leadership, AI tooling, and platform design.

March 22, 2026

Building a Medical Research System for Our Daughter with Claude Code

Using Claude Code to help our family understand complex chronic illness research and ask better questions at appointments.

March 18, 2026

Building a Full-Stack Career Intelligence Dashboard in One Day with Claude Code and gstack

From zero to 64 commits, 7,500 lines of source code, and a production AWS deployment in a single sitting.

March 14, 2026

Agent Phone: Teaching Claude Code to Call Me When It Gets Stuck

I built a Claude Code plugin that places real phone calls when an autonomous agent needs a decision. Twilio, ConversationRelay, and a stop hook, so I can unblock my AI from anywhere.

March 10, 2026

Adding S3 Tables Support to LocalStack

I needed AWS S3 Tables to work locally for a Terraform module. So I built a provider for LocalStack — 2,800 lines across 8 commits, delegating to Nessie as the Iceberg catalog.

February 22, 2026

Building SoundSignal in 5 Days with Claude Code

How one developer and an AI pair-programmed a full-stack permit intelligence platform — 143 commits, 95 PRs, and ~29,500 lines of code in under a week.

December 18, 2025

Adding Me/Them Speaker Detection to an Open-Source Meeting Transcriber

How I contributed dual-VAD speaker attribution to Meetily — using separate microphone and system audio streams to figure out who's talking without any cloud services.