Bits By Me
Hi, I’m Dylan. I write about operations, engineering, tools, and things I’m learning.
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Bookends for agents that keep asking for forgiveness
April 11, 2026
Claude kept apologizing for skipping my expectation-based testing …
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
macOS Launch Agents have a minimal PATH. Here’s how to stop playing whack-a-mole every time you add a new tool.
Getting Caddy and Tailscale to serve multiple local apps on reboot without thinking about it.
I made a warm, earthy theme for Zed. It took exactly a month to get merged.
Serving a local HTML file over your tailnet with Caddy, Tailscale, and a macOS LaunchAgent.
What I learned building CalcMark — a calculation language embedded in markdown — in Go.
Lexers, parsers, type systems, and the tradeoffs that bit me.
I wrote an agent skill so Claude Code can use CalcMark for calculations. Then I asked Claude what was hard, and it taught me a few things about building tools for agents.
Using Caddy as a web server for a local file system.
I like Hugo for static web sites but I always forget how to start from from scratch without a template. This is my short guide with some handy tips and reminders.
Using a slightly nicer
curlA reminder to keep Github Actions simple and as free of logic as possible.
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