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Hi, I’m Dylan. I write about operations, engineering, tools, and things I’m learning.
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Technology Is Not the Change You Are Managing
May 8, 2026
AI is the technology change of the moment, and like every technology change …
Flow metrics for work in GitHub
April 2, 2026
I built a GitHub CLI extension for engineering flow metrics. Here’s
the …
Building the 'Jobs For Me' Agent
March 31, 2026
What I learned building an AI job search agent as a Claude Work plugin
in three …
Compound engineering
March 7, 2026
How I used compound engineering to build a real product as a solo developer.
Not …
TPM Journey at Github
October 20, 2024
Slides and recording of my presentation about how technical program management …Recent
The two Hugo template gates that keep dev-server pageviews out of production analytics.
Instructions and tips for getting the pi.dev agent harness running on a Mac with 8GB of RAM.
Train My Brain is a Claude Code plugin that builds micro-sites for personal learning. Have an esoteric learning need? Spin up a site—modules, exercises, and a glossary, served locally and ready …
How to convert a Markdown file to a PDF with pleasant fonts and great footnotes using pandoc and TeX.
Claude kept apologizing for skipping my expectation-based testing rules…and then skipping then again 2 minutes later.
This is how I replaced best-effort written instructions with two …
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How I used compound engineering to build a real product as a solo developer.
Not “look how many commits I made” but “look at the quality and speed of
issue resolution.” The …
I want to set up an exit node on my Mac Mini using Tailscale. That way I can watch movies from anywhere and print stuff without being at home.
AI is the technology change of the moment, and like every technology change before it, the technology is not the change being managed.
This piece treats ADKAR—Prosci’s five-gate model of …
How to interpret the numbers used to describe LLMs.
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