Bits By Me

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Hi 👋 I'm Dylan. Check out my blog and shorter notes called Today I Learned… My resume describes my professional journey. Follow the links up top☝️to explore. Social links are in the footer👇

Pear-ish theme for Zed til — — I made a warm, earthy theme for Zed. It took exactly a month to get merged.

zed themes editors tools ide

gh-velocity: flow metrics for work in GitHub blog — — I built a GitHub CLI extension for engineering flow metrics. Here’s the philosophy behind it, and two stories about what went wrong.

github cli metrics velocity lean

Caddy + Tailscale for Remote File Serving til — — Serving a local HTML file over your tailnet with Caddy, Tailscale, and a macOS LaunchAgent.

networking webserver tailscale macos

Building the 'Jobs For Me' Agent blog — — What I learned building an AI job search agent as a Claude Work plugin in three days—and why I open-sourced it instead of selling it.

ai claude plugins open-source

Building a language in Go blog — — What I learned building CalcMark — a calculation language embedded in markdown — in Go. Lexers, parsers, type systems, and the tradeoffs that bit me.

go language-design calcmark parsing