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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 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 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 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 Compound engineering March 7, 2026 How I used compound engineering to build a real product as a solo developer. Not … TPM Journey at Github TPM Journey at Github October 20, 2024 Slides and recording of my presentation about how technical program management …
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Cookie-free analytics with GoatCounter on Hugo til —
The two Hugo template gates that keep dev-server pageviews out of production analytics.
Up and running with Pi til —
Instructions and tips for getting the pi.dev agent harness running on a Mac with 8GB of RAM.
Tooling to build learning micro-sites til —
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 …
Markdown to PDF on Mac til —
How to convert a Markdown file to a PDF with pleasant fonts and great footnotes using pandoc and TeX.
Bookend agents for product quality blog —
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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Technology Is Not the Change You Are Managing blog —
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 …
Cookie-free analytics with GoatCounter on Hugo til —
The two Hugo template gates that keep dev-server pageviews out of production analytics.
Interpret LLM Model Size til —
How to interpret the numbers used to describe LLMs.
TPM Journey at Github blog —
Slides and recording of my presentation about how technical program management (TPM) came about at GitHub. All in context of Tuckman’s model of group development.
Systems, Not Individuals, Determine Product Quality blog —
When a software product has reliability problems, slow delivery, or mounting technical debt, the instinct in tech leadership is to hire better engineers, performance-manage underperformers, or add …
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