Writing

• I wanted agent state in Zellij, not another tab I forget about

  26 Jul 2026 · 5 min read · zellij, rust, agents, tooling, wasm

  zj-agents: a stock Zellij engine and sidebar that classifies coding-agent panes (Idle, Working, Blocked, Done) without a fork, hooks-only pipeline, or guessing which Claude tab is stuck.

• How Keylore got planned on a twenty dollar day and shipped with Grok

  23 Jul 2026 · 7 min read · agents, macos, swift, tooling, open-source

  Spec and plan with GPT, implement with Grok 4.5, reiterate until it holds, then SDD. Also the GH Actions minutes I spent on everything else.

• What Keylore actually does to your configs

  22 Jul 2026 · 7 min read · macos, swift, configuration, templates, tooling

  Discover, edit, consent-based template kits, and shortcuts for Ghostty, Zellij, AeroSpace, and LazyGit on a Mac.

• I got bored of editing configs blind, so I shipped a macOS app

  21 Jul 2026 · 4 min read · macos, swift, dotfiles, tooling, agents

  Keylore is a native macOS app for developer configs: discover, edit, optional data-only template kits, and a short series on how it was built.

• I forked Zellij so my terminal could show images again

  18 Jul 2026 · 5 min read · zellij, rust, terminal, kitty-graphics, agents

  Kitty Graphics inside Zellij for Yazi, Codex pets, and Grok on Ghostty. Built with a review loop, not a thin paste, and pointed at what upstream actually wants next.

• I put the Mac mini behind Cloudflare and now typing feels wet

  17 Jul 2026 · 5 min read · cloudflare, ssh, macos, nix, networking

  After nixup made every machine feel the same, I still needed the always-on mini from outside. Cloudflare Tunnel got me in. The keyboard bill arrived later.

• I got tired of setting up the same laptop three times

  17 Jul 2026 · 5 min read · nix, rust, home-manager, dotfiles, tooling

  How nixup turned a multi-machine Nix flake into a config file, a Rust CLI, and a smoke test I actually trust.

• I turned my job hunt into a pipeline, then got rejected by my own tech stack

  12 Jul 2026 · 7 min read · job-search, automation, ai, claude, playwright

  Three months of hunting for senior engineering roles across mobile, AI, and backend, run as a pipeline with career-ops, Playwright, and Claude.

• My job hunt runs itself twice a day now

  12 Jul 2026 · 3 min read · automation, claude, job-search, macos

  Scheduling career-ops as local Claude Desktop tasks on my Mac, twice a day on weekdays, without handing my browser to the cloud.