LEARNING
I wanted to learn Microsoft Agent Framework. I also knew that once I'd learned it, I'd be using AI to write code in it — like I do with every framework now. Which made the old learning order — read the docs, build toy examples by hand, bring
CLAUDE
I spent a full session designing a geo-restriction system with Claude. Not coding — designing. The kind of work where you are drawing boundaries around entities, deciding what belongs where, and trying not to over-build. The session ran long. Sixteen turns. Multiple course corrections. A design doc came out
AUTOMATION
I wanted Claude Code running on a server — not on my laptop, not tethered to a terminal session I have to keep open. A machine that picks up tickets from Linear, works on them, pushes code, and keeps going while I do something else. So I built it. Terraform, a
VIBE KANBAN
Maya is my daughter. She is five and a half and she plays the piano. We practice together five days a week, she and I, sitting at the keys. She already has an Instagram page — maya.on.keys — but it is only videos. The songs she has learned, the milestones,
AI
This is not a story about asking an AI to build something and watching it appear. It is a story about using AI as a deliberate engineering tool — with planning, constraints, and accountability — on a real production project. The Project Live Recorder is a live-TV catchup recording service. It
AI
The first time I tried — and why I came back I had used coding assistants at the beginning of 2025 but after a few tryouts I decided it was still not the right time. Somehow I was unable to control the agent that well — maybe my approach was wrong or