portfolio10 / 10 departures

Working notes.

Engineering, product, and the occasional detour into running.

DepDateCategoryTitleRead
DEP-00922 July 2026EngineeringEveryone gets a little bit of manager5 min

The internet made information abundant. I'm not sure it ever made coordination any cheaper, until maybe now.

DEP-0101 September 2026EngineeringLocal work memory6 min

The hard part was never storing more. It's deciding, note by note, what's actually worth keeping.

DEP-00812 July 2026EngineeringThe knowledge system, part 2: evidence versus understanding4 min

If notes are evidence and profiles are compiled from them, curation stops being a chore and starts being a build step.

DEP-0075 July 2026EngineeringThe knowledge system, part 1: capture versus structure3 min

Two knowledge bases and one stalled migration later, the tool was never the problem. Structure and capture were.

DEP-00615 June 2026EngineeringWorking with AI, slowly3 min

3 years of working with AI on code. The thing that changed most wasn't the models.

DEP-0058 June 2026EngineeringA web developer's notes on React Native5 min

React Native isn't just React on a phone. But it's closer than I expected, and stranger than I expected, often at the same time.

DEP-00424 May 2026EngineeringVibe coding for yourself3 min

I had the idea for years. One vibe coding session proved the approach could work. A weekend later, the spreadsheet workflow was replaced.

DEP-00317 May 2026EngineeringVibe coding Interval Coach5 min

4 hours from blank repository to deployed app, and the process that actually got it there.

DEP-00211 May 2026EngineeringThe cost of starting3 min

Vibe coding changed the economics of starting a project. I want to build the habit around it.

DEP-0019 April 2026EngineeringHow AI changed the shape of software engineering5 min

AI didn't make software engineering faster so much as it moved the bottleneck somewhere else entirely.