Staff software engineer focused on resilient systems, pragmatic leadership, and building tools that keep teams shipping. https://nearbycoder.com/ en-us Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why the citrus MacBook Neo is more capable than it looks, and why AI-assisted coding makes it a legit first developer machine. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-agfs-dev-on-my-wifes-green-macbook-neo-with-ai https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-agfs-dev-on-my-wifes-green-macbook-neo-with-ai Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-agfs-dev-to-make-remote-agent-files-easy-to-share https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-agfs-dev-to-make-remote-agent-files-easy-to-share Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI changed the tools, not the trait that matters most. Curious engineers still have the edge. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/the-curious-engineer-wins-in-the-age-of-ai https://nearbycoder.com/articles/the-curious-engineer-wins-in-the-age-of-ai Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT I used AI heavily in a technical interview, felt great about the build, and still got rejected because the team could not gauge enough of my understanding. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/when-ai-in-an-interview-fails-you https://nearbycoder.com/articles/when-ai-in-an-interview-fails-you Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT I built and shipped a Hacker News terminal UI in about 30 minutes using OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex, then published it straight to npm from the Codex app. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-hackernews-tui-in-30-minutes-with-opentui-and-gpt-5-3-codex https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-hackernews-tui-in-30-minutes-with-opentui-and-gpt-5-3-codex Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT I built SoloAgent as an AI harness experiment to understand how model, tool, state, and execution loops work in practice. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-soloagent-to-understand-ai-harnesses https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-soloagent-to-understand-ai-harnesses Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building TripHaven in about six hours made one thing clear: interviews should test end-to-end product replication and engineering judgment, not isolated feature trivia. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/the-6-hour-build-and-why-technical-interviewing-needs-to-change https://nearbycoder.com/articles/the-6-hour-build-and-why-technical-interviewing-needs-to-change Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT I walked out of my first technical interview feeling off, and it forced me to rethink interview formats, AI, and pressure. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/my-first-technical-interview-in-the-ai-era https://nearbycoder.com/articles/my-first-technical-interview-in-the-ai-era Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT A simple utility app with developer tools baked in, so I can run quick helpers from anywhere on the web. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/launching-uutil-space https://nearbycoder.com/articles/launching-uutil-space Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT How a stable SaaS foundation made it fast to launch EasyAccessQR.com, with analytics, A/B testing, and a full design-flow rewrite. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/the-pivot-reusing-a-stable-codebase-for-easyaccessqr https://nearbycoder.com/articles/the-pivot-reusing-a-stable-codebase-for-easyaccessqr Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:05:00 GMT My take on why so many engineers feel the pressure, but few of us say it out loud. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/what-engineers-are-feeling-right-now https://nearbycoder.com/articles/what-engineers-are-feeling-right-now Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT A reminder from the job search season: stepping back for a weekend can be the exact thing that helps you push harder on Monday. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/weekend-reset-rest-is-part-of-the-grind https://nearbycoder.com/articles/weekend-reset-rest-is-part-of-the-grind Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why I finally built llink.space as a link-in-bio home base after putting it off for years. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/launching-llink-space https://nearbycoder.com/articles/launching-llink-space Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why I created imposter.fm as a podcast host to talk through what engineering feels like in the AI era while navigating layoff uncertainty. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/launching-imposter-fm https://nearbycoder.com/articles/launching-imposter-fm Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical workflow for using `.git` with Claude or Codex to turn shipped commits into accurate, role-tailored resume bullets. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/use-your-git-history-to-write-a-better-resume https://nearbycoder.com/articles/use-your-git-history-to-write-a-better-resume Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four days after sending 14+ job applications, I woke up in a cold sweat and opened my first rejection email. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/cold-sweat-first-rejection-after-14-applications https://nearbycoder.com/articles/cold-sweat-first-rejection-after-14-applications Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I shipped dailystand.dev with organizations, teams, members, analytics, billing, and observability in under 24 hours. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-a-full-saas-in-less-than-a-day-with-claude-and-codex https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-a-full-saas-in-less-than-a-day-with-claude-and-codex Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT How revisiting old ideas after a layoff reignited my creative drive and compressed weeks of work into hours with Claude and Codex. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/reviving-old-projects-with-ai https://nearbycoder.com/articles/reviving-old-projects-with-ai Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Losing my role at Token Terminal forced me to confront how quickly this industry is changing and what resilience looks like now. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/laid-off-from-token-terminal-and-what-it-revealed https://nearbycoder.com/articles/laid-off-from-token-terminal-and-what-it-revealed Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The uneven emotional math of shipping faster with AI while feeling less attached to the work. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/productivity-is-high-but-motivation-is-low https://nearbycoder.com/articles/productivity-is-high-but-motivation-is-low Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT How my day-to-day shifted from mostly typing to mostly prompting, and what that unlocked. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/ai-has-changed-the-way-i-code https://nearbycoder.com/articles/ai-has-changed-the-way-i-code Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sometimes it can be annoying when you are trying to quickly console log something within a component that it implicitily returned, here is a quick trick. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/console-log-implicit-react-components https://nearbycoder.com/articles/console-log-implicit-react-components Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT In this blog post I go over the basic scaffolding of building out a starter React app using ViteJS and explain ViteJS works compared to something like your traditional module loaders such as Webpack. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/gettting-started-with-react-and-vitejs https://nearbycoder.com/articles/gettting-started-with-react-and-vitejs Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Easily adding a simple share button to a blog around sharing on Twitter https://nearbycoder.com/articles/twitter-share-feature https://nearbycoder.com/articles/twitter-share-feature Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Using Fastify and Sendgrid to build out a simple opt-in newsletter subscription feature so that I can start to gain a contact list to send out new blog posts. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-a-subscription-feature https://nearbycoder.com/articles/building-a-subscription-feature Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Pair programming is a side hobby that I have found to help me branch out and learn from local developers in my community. I strongly suggest going for it if you can fit it into your schedule. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/how-to-start-a-pair-programming-routine-copy https://nearbycoder.com/articles/how-to-start-a-pair-programming-routine-copy Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT Anyone who has had to work with an external API knows the problems that can occur when there are a lot of users hitting endpoints that directly pull from the external API's. https://nearbycoder.com/articles/getting-around-api-rate-limiting https://nearbycoder.com/articles/getting-around-api-rate-limiting Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT