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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!
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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I Built an AI Assistant and Named Him Salvador
I spent the weekend building a personal AI agent inside Claude Code. Not just setting up some prompts — actually building something with a name, a personality, opinions, and its own accounts separate from mine.…
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CLAUDE.md vs MEMORY.md
The following video made it easy to understand the difference between CLAUDE.md and MEMORY.md. Though, honestly, I almost asked Claude to explain it to me like I was 5 years old. I still prefer video.…
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CLAUDE.md
Here is the base of my .claude/CLAUDE.md file for when I am using Claude Cowork for development.
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C64 Code Block
Claude and I worked on a code block style that mimics the old Commodore 64 CLI. I love it! It’s got the blue background, the retro glow on some terminal fonts, and that prompt at…
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OpenClaw
OpenClaw (Was ClawdBot, then MoltBot) is taking the internet by storm. And for a good reason, but a lot of it is hype in my opinion, and here is why. I think it’s amazing. I…
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Rebooting The Blog
I am working on rebooting this blog as of February 28th, 2026. Stay tuned, working on the theme and a few plugins.
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Theme Features
I like having a bit more control over featured images in the editor. I don’t always want to show it on the blog listing page. Sometimes it’s nice to have several posts without the featured…
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Free Learning
These classes look great! I am signed up for a few. https://maven.com/x/ai-native-pm-lenny The AI-Native Product Manager: The skills redefining the PM role in 2026 and beyond. It was suggested in Slack at work. Though these…
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Body Recomposition
It’s been 1 year since I started the body recomposition journey. It involved 8 months of bulking and 4 months of a “cut”. I’ve been working out at a professional gym that mostly consists of…