Insights on commerce frontend development, AI-driven workflows, and developer productivity from a specialist with 30+ years of experience.
Weekly insights on AI workflows, software development & engineering leadership.
A year in review: VoiceCommit born on a California trail, BlackOps built from staycations, a blog post written inside Magic Kingdom, and Spotter's three-build weekend sparked by an email read on vacation.
A retired engineer testing my workout app at a university gym found a data loss bug my own testing never hit. How I built the offline queue that fixed it, shipped in a weekend.
Reply-guy culture says volume wins. I run each Hunt as a live search on X; BlackOps scores the results, drafts only the replies that stand on something I actually wrote, and I send every one myself.
A year of Wispr Flow voice dictation changed how I write, message, and brief AI agents, and why I won't go back.
How a content idea became a written LinkedIn post, a designed carousel, and this blog post itself, all in one 15-minute chat session.
Add a low-friction voice feedback widget to your app or site so early users can tell you what is broken by talking, and have your agent wire it in.
I was avoiding Claude Fable 5 so July 7 couldn't disappoint me. Then it turned my workout-tracking blog post into Spotter, a real iOS app with an AI coach, in one day. TestFlight beta open.
I wondered about a Pan Am 747 for 40 years. Claude found the exact tail number. Now I log every flight in BlackOps so the answers never scroll away.
I stopped keeping wine notes and built a Brain that learns my palate. Here is what happened when it watched me buy a bottle, and why a model beats a notebook.
A reaction to five predictions about AI token economics, and why none of it changes the underlying work. Same problems, new vocabulary.
Everyone asks if AI will replace them. The better move: replace yourself on purpose. What I automated, the numbers behind it, and the playbook to start.
Lock-in is what makes enshittification work. Here's the mechanism, and the export button that lets you take your whole site and go.
For years I hand-automated my Obsidian daily note. Now it fills itself. An agent files my captures overnight, sorts thoughts from tasks, and surfaces what's next by morning.
Hundreds of unfinished drafts in twenty years. Forty-five published in five months. This is what BlackOps is, where it came from, and the proof it works.
Why stateless analytics tools give the same advice forever, and how a recommendation ledger plus delta injection made my AI assistant actually track progress per site.
I audited my site's search performance, rewrote two title tags, and pushed the fixes live without opening Search Console once. The whole thing ran in one chat.
Every BlackOps-hosted site is posts, pages, and newsletter signups. So instead of opening a dashboard, you just ask your site how it's doing. The interesting part is that everyone asks it something different.
How I use Claude skills, BlackOps brains, and Apple HealthKit to log every workout by voice. No app. No spreadsheet. No data entry. Just dictate a set and walk to the next machine.
Sorties turn one chat message into a real action. Fix a bug, message your team, fire a Zapier automation. Set it up once, fire it by name from anywhere.
Google Cloud blocked Railway's account. BlackOps MCP went dark. I don't want to care about infrastructure, but the infrastructure doesn't care what I want.
A markdown file got me started. Infrastructure is what it became. The year-later upgrade: Claude manages a living knowledge base, files its own bugs, and pitches its own features. One pattern, three implementations.
UCF arts graduates booed a commencement speaker for praising AI. The fear is real. But blocking it out is the worst possible move. Here's the formula the adapters are already running.
Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol, ChatGPT Instant Checkout, and Perplexity shopping are live. Retail leaders still hiding catalogs behind login walls are losing transactions they can't see.
From npx to a live post in ten minutes. No forms, no empty dashboard.
Personal second brains help you think. Operational second brains run a business. Five places that wall shows up, and what changes when the architecture has to publish.
Brian Armstrong announced one-person teams running fleets of AI agents at Coinbase. I wrote this playbook months ago. Here's what it actually looks like in practice.
The platform math that rewards repackaging over judgment, and why practitioners who ship real work win long-term anyway. A breakdown of urgency loops, borrowed authority, and the structural bet against content slop.
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Salesforce killed the browser for data access. BlackOps kills the browser workflow for creators. Your content lives in browsers. Your work happens in Claude.
Obsidian CEO kepano shipped official Claude Code skills. Here's the practitioner take on what composable vault architecture actually looks like — from someone already running 8 custom skills.
How I added GA4 query tools to my MCP server so analytics, drafting, and iteration all live in the same chat surface.
The X algorithm is serving up identical posts from different accounts. Same tool, same tells. Here's why practitioners scroll past and what AI should actually do.
30 years of hard-won engineering experience, gone. Here's why the next generation won't have the same regret.
Gary Vee told business owners to post on 8 platforms every day. The advice is right. But advice without infrastructure is just motivation. Here is how I built the execution layer.
How a Sunday truck research session revealed something I hadn't designed into BlackOps: the end of note-taking as we know it.
Brain compiles any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base every agent can read and update. Claude Projects, Claude Code, Cowork. No RAG. No scripts. No stale context.
Joanna Wiebe broke down 6 psychology principles behind personal brands that convert. Every single one is a systems problem — and BlackOps solves all 6.
I spent a month debugging OpenClaw every morning before coming back to Claude Code. The people crying loudest about Anthropic's decision aren't the ones who were actually using it to get work done.
BlackOps has an MCP server. That means Claude can draft, queue, and publish your content directly from a conversation. Here's what that looks like in practice.
AI is replacing workers and consumers alike. The first wave digitized the back office. The second is removing humans from both sides of the transaction. Here's why developers should be optimistic about all of it.
Everyone says "we can use AI for that." But reliable, repeatable AI requires infrastructure. Here's why developers need to build the kitchen, not just hire the cook.
The BlackOps MCP connects Claude directly to your content system. Here's how to use it to write posts, tweet threads, and run campaigns.
Obsidian 1.12 shipped a CLI with obsidian eval. For AI agents it cuts vault-wide queries from millions of tokens to a few hundred. Here is why that matters.
A Razorfish call, an Oakley project, and two and a half years of flying every other week changed how I worked—and turned me into a consultant.
Instead of shouting into the void, I built a system to notice patterns in real conversations using OpenClaw to measure real product-market fit signals.
Does archiving ChatGPT chats save space? Does deleting lose anything? Here is what archive vs delete actually does, plus a simple rule for what to keep.
How a single senior developer with AI agents can replace entire development teams, transforming software delivery from slow team coordination to rapid mission command execution.
How a vacation without my laptop led me to build VoiceCommit - an AI-powered voice-first tool that turns spoken commerce and development ideas into GitHub Issues, PRs, and updates.
How I created and use a command-driven system in my everyday commerce development process with Claude Code to document progress with visual screenshots - giving me complete control over when and how enterprise development gets documented.
A casual evening with Claude Code turned into shipping a fully-featured Asteroids easter egg
Discover how combining Claude Code with a simple ROADMAP.md file transformed my personal project management and delivered consistent progress on my blog.
Reflections on the challenges of working with AI agents in development and how teams can adapt
Career guidance from 30 years in commerce development - from accidental start to Commerce Frontend Specialist. Navigate your tech career with insights on continuous learning, mentorship, and strategic growth in e-commerce.
Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.
Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.
How I use iOS Shortcuts to automatically create and populate my daily note.
A quick walkthrough of how to add VSCode to your iPad home screen.
How I automate importing my Obsidian daily note's meeting schedule from my Outlook calendar events.
Essential VSCode extensions for commerce frontend development and team leadership. Tools that enable efficient development across multiple e-commerce projects and remote team management.
I created an Obsidian Dataview query to view my latest Readwise highlights daily.
A rundown of the official Obsidian plugin from Readwise
Most X growth tools farm the same recycled replies. I built one that answers from your own second brain, so you sound like you, not the boat.
Logging a 2.6 mile walk to Doc Holliday's grave from a phone: HealthKit data, a corrected duration, a branded card, and a markdown file I own.