Notes on AI, software, and what actually works.
Technical writing on AI, agentic tooling, software engineering, and computer science: how we build, what we're learning, and what's actually worth knowing.
7 min readHow to Get Started With AI for Free (OpenCode)
Install OpenCode and use DeepSeek free with no account and no credit card. Exact commands for Windows, Mac, and Linux, written for complete beginners.
AIOpen SourceBeginners
5 min readHow to Install the Pokémon Yellow Recomp (Gen1Recomp)
Install Gen1Recomp and play Pokémon Yellow natively on PC: the exact ROM SHA-1 it accepts, the Windows Defender false positive, and the fake site to avoid.
GamingRetroOpen Source
12 min readMy AI Agents Ship Code While I Sleep. Nobody Reviews It.
My AI agents ship code overnight, unreviewed: autonomy gates, verification they can't fake, and graph engineering's building blocks done in plain markdown.
AIClaude CodeAutonomous Agents
7 min readHow to Deploy to AWS Amplify From the CLI
Deploy a React Router 7 app to AWS Amplify with only the AWS CLI: create-app, update-branch, start-job, and the custom-domain CNAMEs, plus the exact errors.
AWSAmplifyReact Router
9 min readBending Light in a Fragment Shader: Real-Time Gravitational Lensing in the Browser
Building an interactive Schwarzschild lens with React Three Fiber, GLSL, and one mid-build architecture pivot. Plus the JWST Pandora's Cluster recursive joke at the end.
Three.jsWebGLGLSL
4 min readHow to Choose a Software Development Company
The 7 red flags and 7 green flags to check before you hire a software development partner, plus the five questions that reveal the most.
BusinessSoftware Development
4 min readHow to Get an Accurate Software Development Quote
How to get a software quote you can budget against: start with outcomes, pay for discovery, and compare what each bid quietly excludes.
BusinessSoftware DevelopmentPricing
8 min readWhat Does Custom Software Cost in 2026?
Custom software runs about $3K for a landing page to $500K+ for enterprise systems, with most business apps at $25K-$150K. Real 2026 ranges by project type.
BusinessSoftware DevelopmentPricing
14 min readThe Renaissance Thesis: Why I'm Betting AI Expands Software Engineering
A historically grounded argument for why AI will expand software engineering, who's actually at risk, and what has to go right. From someone who's lived through the shift.
AISoftware EngineeringCareer
10 min readDeploying React Router 7 to AWS Amplify with Full SSR Support
A step-by-step guide to deploying server-side rendered React Router 7 applications to AWS Amplify using the vite-plugin-react-router-amplify-hosting adapter.
AWSReact RouterSSR
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