The Designer, the Engineer, the PDM — and Claude Design
Apr 29 2026
Last weekend, I designed and shipped a production blog from scratch for my wife in a few hours. I'm not a designer. I don't run a UX practice. I haven't touche…
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Leadership Lessons from Cars: What a Toddler's Favorite Movie Taught Me About Leading Engineering Teams
Apr 27 2026
My almost-two-year-old is, to put it mildly, obsessed with the Cars movies. We're talking daily rewatches. Multiple per day on weekends. The soundtrack lives re…
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Building a Document Intelligence Pipeline with Textract, Titan Embeddings, pgvector, and an LLM
Apr 24 2026
If you've ever tried to make a pile of PDFs queryable actually queryable, not just searchable by filename you've run into the same wall the rest of us have. OC…
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From Idea to Production in a Day: How AI Is Rewriting the Software Development Playbook
Apr 22 2026
Five years ago, taking an idea from a whiteboard sketch to a deployed, production-grade application was measured in weeks or months. Today, for the right kind o…
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Three Years In: How a House Became a Home
Apr 22 2026
It's hard to believe it's already been three years since I picked up the keys to my first house. What started as a major life milestone has quietly become the b…
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