Nobody Hands You Day One: Stepping In as CTO on a Live Product Across Three Runtimes
Most engineering stories start at day one with a clean repo. This one did not, and I think the messy version is the more useful one to read. I stepped…
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🗓️ Monthly Dev Report: July 2026
Hey everyone! I bring you my development journey on what I have discovered, accomplishments for this month, and the goals for next month! Additionally…
The New Developer Portfolio Is Not a Screenshot. It Is the Work Trace.
AI makes it dangerously easy to look productive. A screenshot can look impressive. A demo can look polished. A generated article can read smoothly. A …
I Built CodeComplex: A Real-Time Competitive Coding Platform with AI Rivals and Bug-Fix Arenas
Over the past few months, I've been working on a project called CodeComplex (live at codecomplex.site ). It started with a simple observation: while p…
How I use Claude Code and Comet to build and test AI voice agents in a day
Most people think building an AI voice agent means writing a clever prompt. I build these for a living, and I can tell you the prompt is maybe an hour…
My First Post
Big Howdy, I’m starting a blog. That sentence feels weirdly dramatic for what this is to me. The plan is to write about engineering, personal projects…
The Scorer Was Silently Dropping Half Its Shot Scores
What we shipped on 2026-07-09 Two alerts fired on the same post -- hero_render_fallback on shots 4 and 8, vision_scorer_unavailable on 5 of 12 shots -…
I Rolled Back My MCP Skills Experiment. Here's What I Learned
TL;DR I introduced a SKILL layer while improving fare extraction in a MCP-based transit agent. After that, the agent stopped reliably using the MCP to…
Build Log — Week of 21 June 2026
Build Log — Week of 21 June 2026 Another solid week in the Bizbox engine room. Two meaningful features landed for the Workflows surface, a new release…
Part 1
When I started this project around 3 weeks ago, I never thought this one project would compel me to face so many challenges. It started with a simple …
Hi, I'm Jens
Hi, I'm Jens I'm a cross-platform mobile engineer and Tech Lead at November Five. Day to day that means leading a team of four to six engineers and a …
My test had a comment that said 'in memory fallback'. It wasn't.
The test test_warmup_eval_no_flag_subprocess_exits_0 was running the real warmup eval command, no , dry run , against the live production state file. …
Debugging Has a Methodology. Most Engineers Never Learn It.
Introduction David J. Agans starts every chapter in his book “Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Hardware and Soft…
Publishing Chattr to Three App Stores: What They Don't Tell You
Chattr is a social platform built for the Twitch community. It's a React Native app with a Laravel backend, and over the past few months, I've publish…
Yeueuei
Good progress — down to 4 failures from the original pile. Let me trace each one precisely. Failure 1 & 2 — RSAAdapterResponseTest empty XML tests…
A green test suite proves less than you think
A green test suite proves less than you think The test that scared me was the one that passed. I had an integration test for a routing agent, the kind…
Beyond the Happy Path: Lessons in Resilience and Distributed State
Reflecting on two major technical challenges from my backend engineering internship, focusing on fault tolerance, infrastructure, and distributed arch…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W09
🗓️ This Week Completed the SwiftUI app development tutorial and tested the app I built on a real iPhone🦾 Learned the overall flow of building an iOS a…
Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-31
Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-31 Headline: Two big bets landed in the same week — Workflows arrived as a proper first-class primitive, and the Cl…
A second brain for Claude – my Outline wiki with MCP
Anyone working with several projects and an AI assistant knows the problem: in every repo you explain anew how you name things, what the layer archite…
Few hacks a dev needs
Few things that I adopted, which has helped me to be better developer. To be honest, I forget things quite fast. Journaling becomes more than just a t…
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W08
🗓️ This Week Completed one section of the SwiftUI tutorial 🦾 Since I want to continue through the tutorial until I can build the app for testing and r…
My Potential Users are Just Busy… Or Are They?
When I first told a friend about my AI garden visualization idea, she said What a great idea! Sounds interesting! So I asked her to send me her backya…
Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-30
Bizbox Build Log — Week of 2026-05-30 Five substantive PRs merged this week (2026-05-23 through 2026-05-30), two releases shipped. The theme: the awai…
77 Rules Later: What Graduating Our First Stack Actually Looked Like
This is Part 8 of the ForgeFlow series. Part 7: The File Modification Boundary documented the constraint that changed how we structure tasks: every au…
What I Learned About Token Design on Solana as a Web2 Developer
* From Minting Tokens to Building Soulbound Credentials on Solana * Coming from a traditional Web2 development background, I always thought digital as…
Strengthening Ride Matching, Notifications, and Schedule Management
For our last week, focused on improving session persistence and preparing GusLift for broader platform support. This week, we continued improving the …
Weekly Dev Log 2026-W06
🗓️ This Week Made a little more progress in the SwiftUI tutorial🦾 Started the journey of building my future portfolio site✈️ First, I created the proj…
Great Little Software: Rackula
"There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. …
Getting Selected — The Night I Couldn't Sleep
If you haven't read my previous post about the pre-GSoC journey the two months of contributing, the early mornings, the proposal drafts I'd suggest st…