NEARBYCODER Signal archive / 26

Personal engineering archive

Currently building at Augment Code

Useful systems for uncertain days.

I build resilient systems, write about the messy parts of shipping, and try to keep teams calm when things get noisy.

Field notes / 01

Latest articles

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DRAFTSHIPBETAREAD2026 BUILDING-AGFS-DE
A / 01
2026-04-016 min read

Building AGFS.dev on my wife's MacBook Neo with an AI agent

Why the citrus MacBook Neo is more capable than it looks, and why AI-assisted coding makes it a legit first developer machine.

aiagfsdeveloper-toolsmacbook-neo
BUILDING-AGFS-DE
A / 02
2026-03-307 min read

Building AGFS.dev to make remote agent files easy to share

Why I built AGFS.dev for remote agent workflows, why Git is the wrong tool for artifacts, and how I put the web app plus CLI together.

aiagentsdeveloper-toolsopensource
THE-CURIOUS-ENGI
A / 03
2026-03-244 min read

The Curious Engineer Wins in the Age of AI

AI changed the tools, not the trait that matters most. Curious engineers still have the edge.

aiengineeringcareerworkflow

Workbench / 02

Selected builds

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Ongoing/Creator
agfs.dev

An open-source private filesystem for AI agents, with a web UI and CLI for uploading, previewing, and sharing remote artifacts through signed links.

TanStack StartTypeScriptCloudflare WorkersCloudflare R2Cloudflare D1Better Auth
02
Ongoing/Creator
dailystand.dev

Open-source, self-hostable async standup platform for teams with analytics, API keys, a public REST API, and MCP support.

TanStack StartTypeScripttRPCDrizzle ORMPostgreSQLBetter Auth

Build diary / 03

Weekly updates

Full log
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2026-03-08W3shipped
Week 3: Roomba Wars
Week 3: Roomba Wars

Turned a Roomba interview prompt into a multiplayer browser game with realtime systems, 3D rendering, and benchmark tooling.

TypeScriptReact 19ViteReact Three Fiberthree
Open dispatch
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2026-03-04W3shipped
Week 3: hackernews-tui
Week 3: hackernews-tui

Built and shipped a Hacker News terminal UI with OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex in about 30 minutes, then published it to npm.

TypeScriptOpenTUINode.jsnpm
Open dispatch

Timeline / 04

Where I've built

  1. 01

    Augment Code

    Member of Technical Staff

    2026 - current
  2. 02

    Token Terminal

    Staff Software Engineer

    2024 - 2026
  3. 03

    FireHydrant

    Staff Engineer

    2021 - 2024
  4. 04

    Kodable

    Senior Engineer

    2020 - 2021
  5. 05

    Tempest

    Lead Engineer

    2019 - 2020
  6. 06

    Kazoo HR

    Lead Engineer

    2018 - 2019
  7. 07

    Made By Munsters

    Full Stack Developer

    2016 - 2018
  8. 08

    Fabricut

    Web Developer

    2015 - 2016
  9. 09

    Hostek

    Software Developer

    2013 - 2015