Recent Posts
The Coffee Bit
People rarely quit because they hate the job. Somewhere along the way a single bit flips from 0 to 1, and suddenly they're open to coffee. Here's how to keep it at 0.
Skill Issue: I Turned My Talks Into an Agent Skill
How I packed my presentation style into nerdalicous-presentation-skill: an Agent Skill on top of Slidev, built around the stages of a talk, and what testing it on a real deck taught me.
The AI DM Gets an Upgrade: What Happened After the First Session
A lot happened to dnd-fam-ftw since the first post: car mode, terminal mode, tiered models, agentic narration, and a workflow where Codex checks the AI facts and Claude writes the code.
Squeezing More Out of Claude on a Personal Account
Practical optimizations I made while using Claude Code on a personal account to keep developing dnd-fam-ftw.
My Kid Didn't Want to DM, So I Built One
Built an open source, self-hosted AI Dungeon Master for family D&D nights. POC in under an hour, first playtest was a blast.
The Rat That Byte Twice
A rat ate my fiber optic cable. A technician came and fixed it. Ten minutes later, the rat ate it again.
ShelteryPie: A Missile Alert Led Lights
How I wired up a Raspberry Pi and some LEDs to stop my family from doom-scrolling during missile alerts. No app required. Just a light.
Auto Resume Claude Code Sessions
I’m a big user of Claude Code, their CLI is AMAZONG, you can even paste images of outputs and it’ll parse it.
Needless to say, I’m a heavy tmux user, and I usually have several sessions windows and pane open, with plentiful of Claude CLI sessions in place.
Why Penguins Don't Build Nests in Trees and Why That Matters for AI
A different kind of talk
I recently had the opportunity to speak at my kid’s class about AI.
It was not a conference talk. There were no slides about model architectures or leadership frameworks. There were 12 year olds, lots of opinions, and very little patience for fluff.
Which, in hindsight, was perfect.
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Putting the AI in TUI: When You Have 43 Minutes and a Commit Stuck in Your Head
How a busy engineering manager finds real coding flow in 43-minute windows, powered by Vim, tmux, Devbox, and a terminal-native AI assistant. Cold brew optional, terminal required.