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All of the Above

A developer who writes about everything.

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    Making lftcrwd Open Source

    Creating the lftcrwd app was fun. A huge learning journey that I am so glad I set out on. I am using it day to day as I work on my fitness and bodybuilding, and…

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  • I wired up GitLab CI to Breadcrmb.

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    I wired up GitLab CI to Breadcrmb.

    I wanted real GitLab CI/CD experience — not the kind you get from reading docs, the kind you get from breaking a production app. So I wired up a GitLab pipeline to Breadcrmb, a personal…

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    CI Tells the Truth

    I decided to move away from having my lftcrwd application version-controlled locally to version-controlled on GitHub. This meant an opporunity to explore CI and GitHub Actions, as well as a security layer. (Semgrep) I spent…

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  • AI Engineering Book Club at A8c

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    AI Engineering Book Club at A8c

    Some Systems Engineers are reading through the book AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models as a group and posting their thoughts on each chapter. I am following along! I’ll be posting my thoughts here.

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    Claude Design

    Opus 4.7 brought some cool stuff along with it. Noticed this in my usage settings. Heading to https://claude.ai/design – sure enough. I know what I will be trying to fit into my weekend. 🙂

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    Breadcrmb App

    I’ve been wanting to have a fun way to track my growth. The books, the sermons, the podcasts, the counseling sessions, the late night realizations. So I wrote the breadcrmb app. You can sign up…

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    lftcrwd App

    Claude and I have been busy turning an app I started a long time ago into something much better. lftcrwd is a fitness app (codename recomp) that is geared towards the trainer. It’s not a…

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    The Daniel Priestley Interview on Diary of a CEO Is Worth Your Time

    I don’t usually recommend podcasts or interviews here. There’s too much content and not enough hours. But the Daniel Priestley episode on Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett is one I keep coming back…

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  • Saintcon 2026!

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    Saintcon 2026!

    I was just looking over the SaintCon site last week, as I do regularly, to see if the dates for the next conference had been announced yet. They were not. Checking today, the conference date…

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    Time Zone Tasks Automated

    I’ve been working remotely for 15 years. I am used to having a team spread out across the globe. You would think that after this long, working with time zones would be second nature, but…

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