some not great news: i'm no longer at cyfrin due to engineering layoffs. i am open to full-time/part-time/contract full stack or forward deployed engineering roles. if you're hiring OR can share this, i'd appreciated it 🫶 leading @CyfrinUpdraft for 2.5+ years was a dream. i'll cherish the time there and the people i worked alongside. seeing products grow because of the people using them is why i love this industry. more on my work below ↓

joined an interview on zoom this week and forgot my pfp was this 😭 (haven't used zoom in years) luckily got passed to coding round

i try not being discouraged about not working for ~3 months, as someone who hasn't had more than a month off since i was 16 y/o. but i keep going because i know what value i bring & that the right situation will come as long as i don't give up.

can't say i've seen this job title before

got happy today seeing a 2 for 1 deal on diet coke at the grocery store a not so subtle reminder that i’m in unc territory

i made this small macOS app to see context per project it shows - instruction files - skills and plugins in load order - duplicate or conflicting rules - suggestions for improvements using local models built with swift. i recommend doing something similar 🫡

rip to my usage, but w to some cool research

learning inference engineering and holy shit they were right

got access to jev and built a little detective escape room 🕵️‍♂️ your passport is missing. three passengers are lying. you connect the clues in your own words, and jev checks whether your argument holds up.

to get a job as a software engineer in 2026, you must: - meet the hiring manager/recruiter - do leetcode even though the interviewer hasn’t written code in a year - complete a take home that’s just “build our startup” - have 4 yrs of experience in a tool that launched 6 months ago - prove you didn’t vibe code it - also prove you can vibe code it - sacrifice your first born child - wait 6 weeks - get rejected

submitting for a solana hackathon for the first time in ~3 years

inspired by pixel-agent, i built a pixel agent factory 🏭 you hire pixel coworkers with distinct roles and skills, give them scoped tasks, and see what the office is waiting on. the factory lets you: - run multiple tasks in parallel, with capacity and queueing visible - hire coworkers with role-specific skills - assign work to local or remote execution environments - review plans and decisions before work starts - track task ownership, saved session history, and employee requests - get notified when an employee needs a decision, verification, or your input - use existing Claude or Codex accounts - keep the actual coding-agent terminal separate from the game-like office UI - pet and feed the office cat 😼 the goal is to make running coding agents feel more like managing a small studio than juggling tabs.

pivoting to divorce lawyer websites exclusively for iphone duo

wanted my AI to see more than just the happy path when building apps, so i made a MCP/dashboard tool that lets it look at multiple UI states and make changes from there also been messing with an AI storyboard workflow for my project demos, and this is where it’s at so far 🤓