Field Notes
Thoughts, technical writing, and lessons learned.
Frontend systems, AI-assisted engineering, architecture, harness and agent development, and the work around the work.
Latest field note · October 26, 2026
I Built My Own Page-View Counter
I already had Google Analytics and Clarity. I wanted one small place for the sites that matter, built for me and my bots.
Note 02 · October 18, 2026
My App Said It Failed. It Didn't.
A slow AI call, a browser that gave up too early, and a handful of bots that filed the bug and got it fixed before lunch.
Note 03 · October 17, 2026
I Shipped a Work Fix From My Phone
15+ years into web dev, a new workflow still blew my mind: Grok Bot on my phone driving Claude Code on my work computer to file the ticket, make the fix, and open the PR while I was out of the office.
Note 04 · October 17, 2026
Agents Need APIs, Not Spreadsheets
My assistant bots were working out of a Google Sheet. Then one of them basically asked for a real feature. The pattern I keep landing on: give agents real APIs plus a skill doc.
Note 05 · October 12, 2026
I Almost Canceled Cursor. Now It Runs My Bot Team.
I was ready to drop my Cursor subscription for Grok Build. Then Grok Bot showed up, and now 23 bots and a bunch of Cursor cloud agents do work for me while I'm away from the desk.
Note 06
June 25, 2026
Meet Ripple: A Local-First Task Manager for Coding Agents
Ripple turns a software backlog into a transparent, repeatable delivery workflow for humans and coding agents.
Note 07
June 3, 2026
Building Your First Agentic Coding Harness
An open-source TypeScript harness for Grok, plus a line-by-line tutorial — sessions, profiles, compaction, sub-agents, and a REPL you can extend.
Note 08
May 21, 2026
Agent Harnesses for Coding: What Actually Matters
After building and iterating on several of these systems, one lesson stands out clearly. Once you have a reasonably capable model, the majority of reliability, safety, iteration speed, and user trust comes from the harness around it. The model supplies reasoning and tool-call intent. The harness supplies everything else that turns that intent into coherent, recoverable work on a real codebase.
Note 09
May 3, 2026
Portfolio Page Lesson
A step-by-step custom field note on designing and building a portfolio page with strong positioning, server-rendered content, and bespoke visual sections.