Blog and notes

Technical, business, and personal writing from the builder side.

This is the home for longer thinking: practical engineering notes, founder lessons, sales system breakdowns, AI workflows, and personal reflections from building in public.

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I mapped a Cloudflare SaaS architecture before writing any code

Which Cloudflare piece stores what: D1, KV, R2, Queues, Durable Objects, vectors and AI Gateway, mapped on one SaaS diagram.

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I measure my AI spend against a 10x return

My AI bill against one customer's revenue, the 10x bar I use, and how to total your AI subscriptions with one prompt.

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I pointed GitHub Copilot CLI at a real calendar bug, and it fixed it

What happened when I gave the brand-new GitHub Copilot CLI a real drag-and-drop bug: a wrong-folder start, a lot of permission prompts, and a working fix.

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I manage half a million lines with a monorepo and overnight Copilot agents

What I use instead of Spec Kit on a half-million-line monorepo: per-project Copilot instructions, a docs hierarchy, and overnight agent PRs.

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I ran GitHub Spec Kit on a 5,500-line Nuxt 2 app and still got lost

What happened when I took GitHub Spec Kit from the constitution to /implement on a real contractor SaaS with an existing task board.

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I tested Read.ai, Fireflies and Otter on my real meetings. Only one stayed.

What I learned testing three AI note-takers on real meetings, and why only Read.ai stayed.

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Vibe coding still needs engineering judgment

How to move fast with AI while keeping product scope, architecture, and deployment decisions grounded.

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Lead scoring is a prioritization problem

A practical view of how AI can improve outreach without turning every sales message into noise.

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Build the smallest system that proves the point

Why useful software starts with a painful workflow, a measurable result, and a path to repeatability.

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Professional updates, business notes, and longer-form posts for operators and founders.

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