NEARBYCODER Personal blog / 26

Personal engineering blog

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.

No. 01 — Field notes

Latest articles

All articles
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

No. 02 — Workbench

Selected builds

All projects
01
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

No. 03 — Build diary

Weekly updates

Full log
01
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
02
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

No. 04 — Timeline

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