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 · 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 02
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 03
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 04
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.