Staff Engineer Calm Under Fire Curious Builder

Staff software engineer, loving husband, father of two girls.

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

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Signal > Noise

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2026-03-04 4 min read

Building hackernews-tui in 30 minutes with OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex

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.

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2026-03-03 6 min read

Building SoloAgent to understand AI harnesses

I built SoloAgent as an AI harness experiment to understand how model, tool, state, and execution loops work in practice.

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2026-03-02 7 min read

The 6-hour build and why technical interviewing needs to change

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.

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