The Stack

Glue. Every build step, every check and every browser runner in this repo starts life as a shell script.

Wired intoDevOps

The language underneath the typed one. Still what I reach for in a scratch script or a browser console at two in the morning.

Wired intoEngineering

The same job as Bash on the Windows machine, with an entirely different set of surprises.

Wired intoDevOps

What the secret scanners and the one off data jobs are written in. Not my first language, and it does not need to be.

Wired intoEngineeringSecret Scanner, TextDocument ClearerProduction Data Analyst

The one language I mostly write against somebody else's schema. Read only, most days, and I would rather bring the query than argue about the number.

Wired intoData

Catches the class of mistake I make most often, which is the wrong shape.

Wired intoEngineeringExecutorCode Reviewer

Salesforce's own language. I have been in triggers and classes for behaviour no setting could give us.

Wired intoEngineering

A service language I have worked in rather than chosen. I like the deployment story more than the ergonomics.

Wired intoEngineering

Terraform's own language, which is how infrastructure ends up in a pull request instead of in somebody's memory.

Wired intoDevOps

Where I learned to program, writing plugins for a game server. I read it more often than I write it now.

Wired intoEngineering

Older platforms I have had to open and fix. Not where I would start something now.

Wired intoEngineering

The desktop app I built for myself has a Rust core, which is how it ships as one file that starts instantly. I am slower in it than in TypeScript and I like what that slowness does to my decisions.

Wired intoEngineering

What the stylesheets were before Tailwind. I still open it on the older front ends.

Wired intoDesign

The framework most of my front ends are built on, this one included.

Wired intoEngineeringExecutorFrontend Designer

The component layer under all of it. Boring in the best way.

Wired intoEngineeringExecutor

The dev server and bundler under most of what I start now. Fast enough that I stopped thinking about it.

Wired intoEngineering

A front end I inherited rather than chose. Stricter than I would pick, and that is not always the wrong trade.

Wired intoEngineering

The toolchain that makes React Native survivable. Builds and over the air updates without a release train.

Wired intoEngineering

Hybrid mobile out of web components. I have maintained one rather than built one.

Wired intoEngineering

The same component habits pointed at a phone. I have worked on apps built this way rather than started one.

Wired intoEngineering

The desktop shell behind my one native app, a retro money and time panel I built for myself.

Wired intoEngineeringFrontend DesignerExecutor

I have worked in Vue codebases and can be useful in one. It is not where I start a new front end.

Wired intoEngineering

Python with the admin and the ORM already in the box. I have maintained services built on it.

Wired intoEngineering

What I still reach for when the job is four routes and a health check.

Wired intoEngineering

Typed endpoints with the schema generated for me. What I would choose for a new Python service.

Wired intoEngineering

Express with the overhead taken out, for the services where request cost actually showed up in the bill.

Wired intoEngineering

Python for when the service is small enough that a framework would be in the way.

Wired intoEngineering

Go's small HTTP framework. I have read and changed services written in it.

Wired intoEngineering

The small server that runs on edge runtimes. What I use when the deploy target is a worker.

Wired intoEngineering

Structured TypeScript on the server. Worth its ceremony when a team has to agree on where things go.

Wired intoEngineering

The runtime for the services and for every generator in this repo.

Wired intoEngineeringExecutor

The Java service framework. I have worked inside one rather than stood one up from nothing.

Wired intoEngineering

What I reach for when motion has to land on a beat: scroll scenes, timelines, staggered reveals. The earlier one page version of this site was built on it.

Wired intoDesignFrontend Designer

Smooth scroll that does not fight the browser. A few lines of setup and the scroll work stops feeling cheap.

Wired intoDesign

Components I own the source of, pasted in and then changed. I have never once wanted the version that updates itself.

Wired intoDesignshadcn MCP

Styling without a naming argument every Tuesday.

Wired intoDesignFrontend DesignerUI and UX Designer

The 3D on this site. Used sparingly, because a portfolio is not a demo reel.

Wired intoDesignFrontend DesignerExecutor

The component set on an older Angular front end. Opinionated, which saved a lot of arguments.

Wired intoDesign

Charts on a canvas, from before I was doing this in React. Still the fastest way to get a number onto a page.

Wired intoDesign

The WebGL graph engine I built the first Brain on, before the map went to SVG.

Wired intoDesignFrontend DesignerExecutorThis Site

Declarative motion in React, for transitions that are easier to describe than to time by hand.

Wired intoDesign

The unstyled primitives underneath. It is where the keyboard behaviour and the focus handling come from.

Wired intoDesign

React charts for the dashboards where the number matters more than the chart does.

Wired intoDesign

SQL you can still see, with types over it. What I use when an ORM would be too much machinery.

Wired intoEngineering

Java's ORM, from the service work. It taught me what a lazy load costs when nobody is looking.

Wired intoEngineering

Schemas over MongoDB, which is the only way a document store stays legible a year later.

Wired intoEngineering

Typed database access with the schema as the source of truth, and migrations I can read in a diff.

Wired intoEngineeringPrisma MCP

The Python side of the same job. I have written queries through it rather than designed the models.

Wired intoEngineering

An older TypeScript ORM I have worked in. Decorator heavy, and it shows its age.

Wired intoEngineering

Shared state without a provider wrapped around the whole tree. Most screens need less of it than they ask for.

Wired intoEngineering

Sessions and providers without writing the auth flow myself, which is not a place I want to be clever.

Wired intoSecurity

Background jobs on Redis, for work that must not happen inside a request.

Wired intoEngineering

Forms that do not re-render the world on every keystroke. Its dirty guard has also caught me out more than once.

Wired intoEngineering

Server state done properly: caching, refetching and the loading flags I would otherwise get subtly wrong.

Wired intoEngineering

A rich text editor I can actually control, for the places a plain text area was not enough.

Wired intoEngineering

One schema that validates at the edge and types the code behind it. Anywhere data arrives from outside, this is there.

Wired intoEngineering

The plugin API I wrote my first Java against. The first code I wrote that other people used.

Wired intoEngineering

Where all of this started. I ran a server, people played on it, and what they complained about became my first feature requests.

Wired intoEngineering

The terminal every agent on this map actually runs inside. Most of my work starts by typing into it.

Wired intoEngineeringExecutorSubagent DriverSkill Router

Captures what each session did, so the next one can search it instead of asking me again.

Wired intoDataMemory SearchKnowledge AgentContext Compactorclaude-mem MCP

The phased delivery engine behind the planning trees sitting in most of my repos. Roadmap, phase, verify.

Wired intoProductRoadmapperPlannerGoal Verifier

The wiring that lets an agent reach a tracker, a warehouse or a database without me moving exports around by hand.

Wired intoDevOpsDatabase Session ManagerJira and Confluence OperatorAtlassian

The skill pack that makes me brainstorm, plan, then verify, in that order. The most used thing I have installed.

Wired intoProductBrainstormerPlan WriterCompletion Verifier

Direct model calls inside my own code, for the jobs that are one prompt and a schema rather than a whole agent.

Wired intoEngineering

For the agents that have to run outside a terminal session. Same harness, different door into it.

Wired intoEngineering

The other terminal agent. I keep it installed so that I am comparing rather than assuming.

Wired intoEngineering

Used where the context window or the price was the deciding factor rather than the model.

Wired intoEngineering

I built with it and then mostly moved away from it. The abstraction cost more than it saved once the agents got real.

Wired intoEngineering

The other provider, kept alive in the codebases that already speak it.

Wired intoEngineering

The connector everything Jira and Confluence shaped goes through.

Wired intoOpsJira and Confluence Operator

So an agent can read and draft in the inbox rather than me forwarding things into a chat window.

Wired intoOpsGmail

So the thing booking the meeting can see the week it is booking into.

Wired intoOpsGoogle Calendar

Reaches the documents where they already live, which is the only place anyone is going to look for them.

Wired intoOpsGoogle Drive

Lets an agent read and write the pages instead of me copying them into a prompt.

Wired intoOpsNotion

Publishes into a marketing site without a person sitting in the content editor.

Wired intoDesignWebflow

So a design that a non designer can edit is one step from an agent rather than a download and a re upload.

Wired intoDesignCanva

A bundle of hosted connectors, used when the alternative was building the same auth flow for the fourth time.

Wired intoOps

Reads the frames and the variables, so a component gets built from the file rather than from a screenshot of it.

Wired intoDesignFigma

Reaches the older shared hosting where a couple of sites still quietly live.

Wired intoDevOpsHostinger

The other automation platform, for the same reason. Some of the older scenarios already run there.

Wired intoOps

The same reach into the other office suite, because half the people I work with live in it.

Wired intoOpsMicrosoft 365

Reads and posts in the channels, for the teams that run their whole day inside them.

Wired intoOpsSlack

Reads the payments side, so a billing question gets answered out of the data instead of out of a guess.

Wired intoOpsStripe

One connector that reaches a long tail of apps I would never write an integration for by hand.

Wired intoOps

Drives my own browser through a flow and reads the console while it goes.

Wired intoQABrowser QAVisual QAChrome DevTools MCP

The search side of my session memory, so a decision from three months ago is a query rather than a scroll.

Wired intoDataclaude-mem

Fetches current library documentation, because my memory of an API is not evidence.

Wired intoResearchFramework ResearcherPhase Researcher

Pulls a card or a dataset into the session, read only, so an answer arrives with its query attached to it.

Wired intoDataDomo

Issues, pull requests and reviews without leaving the session that is writing the code.

Wired intoDevOpsGitHub

The document half of the same rule, under the same read only posture.

Wired intoDataProduction MongoDB

A read only session against the relational database, opened for one job and closed after it.

Wired intoDataProduction MySQL

Drives a headless browser straight from the session, for the checks nobody needs to sit and watch.

Wired intoQAPlaywright

Plain web search inside the session, for the times a link is all that is needed.

Wired intoResearch

The console, the network log and the performance trace, read by the agent that is about to fix them.

Wired intoQAChrome Automation

The edge side of the same job: workers, records, and what the last deploy actually did.

Wired intoDevOpsCloudflare

Search built for an agent rather than a person, for when the question is a shape rather than a keyword.

Wired intoResearch

One request, returned as text. The smallest useful server there is, and I still reach for it.

Wired intoResearch

Scoped file access for an agent running somewhere I have not handed a shell.

Wired intoOps

Turns a site into text an agent can read, for the research that lives behind a page rather than an API.

Wired intoResearch

A knowledge graph an agent writes to and reads back, for the facts that have to outlive a session.

Wired intoData

Branch a database the way you branch code, from inside the session doing the work.

Wired intoDataNeon

Asks the product analytics a question and brings the answer back, instead of me building another dashboard.

Wired intoDataPostHog

Schema and migrations handled where the schema is already the source of truth.

Wired intoDataPrisma

The older headless driver. Still here for the scripts that were written against it.

Wired intoQA

Three servers I wrote myself, so an agent can reach the systems I run without me moving exports around by hand.

Wired intoDevOps

Pulls the actual stack trace into the session that is about to go and fix it.

Wired intoQASentry

Makes a model lay its steps out before it acts. It earns its place on the tangled problems and gets in the way on the simple ones.

Wired intoResearch

Fetches the component source and its examples, so a build starts from the real file.

Wired intoDesignshadcn/ui

Schema and rows over the hosted Postgres, without a dashboard in the middle.

Wired intoDataSupabase

Deployments and logs for the projects that live there, without a tab open.

Wired intoDevOpsVercel

Test plans and runs attached to the tickets, so coverage is auditable.

Wired intoQAUnit Test Standards Author

The BI layer leadership opens in the morning. I query it read only.

Wired intoDataBI AnalystProduction Data AnalystDomo MCP

Half of any company still runs on spreadsheets. Pretending otherwise is how you build the wrong system.

Wired intoDataChart DesignerCompliance ManagerGoogle Drive

The database under most of the platforms I own. Managed wherever I can get it managed.

Wired intoDataDatabase Session ManagerMachine Provisioner

Tells me what people actually do on my sites, as opposed to what I hoped.

Wired intoDataChart DesignerHealth CheckerPostHog MCP

The document half of the same platform, same read only rules.

Wired intoDataDatabase Session ManagerProduction Data AnalystMongoDB MCP

Read only access to the production relational database, opened one session at a time.

Wired intoDataDatabase Session ManagerProduction Data AnalystMySQL MCP

Postgres with auth, storage and an API already wired together. What I reach for when something needs a backend by the weekend.

Wired intoDataSupabase MCP

Hosted search for when relevance and typo tolerance matter more than owning the index.

Wired intoData

Warehouse queries on the Google side, usually because the data was already landing there.

Wired intoData

The small vector store, for when the corpus fits on one machine and I want it running in a minute.

Wired intoData

Column store for the analytical queries that make a normal database cry.

Wired intoData

Key value at scale, with the access patterns decided before the table exists. That constraint is the whole product.

Wired intoData

Realtime data and auth for the apps where the client really is the whole application.

Wired intoData

MySQL by another name, on the hosts that chose it. Same queries, fewer surprises than I expected.

Wired intoData

Search that is quick to stand up and good enough for most product search.

Wired intoData

Vector search at the size where a library inside the process stops being enough.

Wired intoData

Serverless Postgres with branching, which is what makes a throwaway database actually throwaway.

Wired intoDataNeon MCP

Vectors inside Postgres, so the embeddings sit next to the rows they came from and there is one database to back up.

Wired intoData

Cache, queue and lock. Usually the first thing I add when a request is doing work it should not be doing.

Wired intoData

A warehouse I have queried for reporting work rather than modelled from scratch.

Wired intoData

Where some of the older enterprise data sits. I query it rather than administer it.

Wired intoData

A database in a file. It runs the local tools and more small services than anybody admits to.

Wired intoData

Where the solar platform runs. Containers, queues and a lot of email.

Wired intoDevOpsDeployer

Where this site is served from, static and boring on purpose.

Wired intoDevOpsDeployerCloudflare MCP

How a platform runs the same on my laptop as it does in the cloud. Compose files, mostly.

Wired intoDevOpsApp RunnerMachine Provisioner

Every check that has to pass before a merge, and most of the deploys after one.

Wired intoDevOpsGitHub

Where Eterna's platforms run. Managed containers, managed Postgres, fewer pagers.

Wired intoDevOpsDeployerMachine Provisioner

Where a Next.js app goes when I want the deploy to be a push and nothing else.

Wired intoDevOpsVercel MCP

Hosting and auth glued together for a front end. Quick to start, and I have hit its edges.

Wired intoDevOps

Infrastructure written in TypeScript, for the stacks where the team was already living in TypeScript.

Wired intoDevOpsAWS

The third cloud. I have worked in it where a counterparty had already standardised on it.

Wired intoDevOps

Charts and values, because the alternative is copying manifests between environments and hoping.

Wired intoDevOps

I have run workloads on it, and I avoid it whenever a managed container service will do the job.

Wired intoDevOps

Infrastructure described in a file and reviewed in a pull request, instead of clicked into a console at midnight.

Wired intoDevOps

The command that puts a build on the edge. It is also the one that takes it back off.

Wired intoDevOpsDeployer

The first web server I ever configured, with a rewrite rule I did not understand yet.

Wired intoDevOps

The same job with the certificate handled for me. Two lines of config for what used to take twenty.

Wired intoDevOps

Where I bought my first domains and pointed my first records. Mostly a registrar to me now.

Wired intoDevOps

Shared hosting from before I had a pipeline. A couple of sites are still sitting there.

Wired intoDevOpsHostinger MCP

Reverse proxy, certificates and static files. It sits in front of more of my things than anything else does.

Wired intoDevOps

The performance and accessibility pass before I am allowed to say a page is done.

Wired intoQA

Headless browser runs when nobody needs to watch.

Wired intoQABrowser QAPlaywright MCP

The accessibility rules an audit is going to run anyway, run by me first.

Wired intoQA

Browser tests with a runner that made people actually write them. I have inherited more of these than I have written.

Wired intoQA

The dashboards over the metrics. Where I go when somebody says it feels slow.

Wired intoQA

The same job in the older repos, still running the suites that were written for it.

Wired intoQA

Java tests, from the service work and the plugin years before it.

Wired intoQA

Load tests written in JavaScript, for the moment somebody asks whether it holds.

Wired intoQA

Traces and metrics in one vendor neutral shape, so changing backend does not mean instrumenting everything again.

Wired intoQA

The Python side of the same habit, mostly over the scanners and the data jobs.

Wired intoQA

What tells me something broke in production before a person has to.

Wired intoQASentry MCP

Static analysis across a whole codebase, for the problems a human reviewer stops noticing around file forty.

Wired intoQA

Tests that ask what a person can see rather than what the component happens to be called.

Wired intoQA

The browser automation I reach for first. Fewer surprises with real forms.

Wired intoQABrowser QA

The unit runner in every TypeScript project I start. Fast enough that I actually run it.

Wired intoQA

Where somebody on my team can change a graphic without asking me. That matters more than the tool does.

Wired intoDesignCanva MCP

Where a screen exists before it exists in code. I read out of it far more often than I draw in it.

Wired intoDesignFigma BridgeFrontend DesignerUI and UX DesignerFigma MCP

The generation backend behind most of my image and video work.

Wired intoMarketingMedia GeneratorProduct PhotographerIdentity TrainerListing Card Maker

For the marketing sites that should not need a deploy pipeline.

Wired intoMarketingMarketing Site BuilderWebflow MCP

Every video and audio conversion I have ever needed. I look the flags up every single time.

Wired intoDesign

Diagrams written as text, so an architecture drawing lives in the repo and survives the next change to it.

Wired intoDesign

Video assembled in code, so changing the script means a rebuild rather than an afternoon in an editor.

Wired intoMarketingContent ShowrunnerShort Form Producer

Resizing and format conversion in the build, so nobody ships a two megabyte hero image by accident.

Wired intoDesign

Where every credential lives, so that nothing in a repository has to.

Wired intoSecurity

Where a spec goes to be found again six months later.

Wired intoOpsJira and Confluence OperatorSpec and Memo Writer

The virtual office. An entire company works its day inside it.

Wired intoOpsComms Operator

Mail, triaged by an agent so I only see the part that needs me.

Wired intoOpsComms OperatorGmail MCP

Five ventures across two time zones. It is not optional.

Wired intoOpsComms OperatorGoogle Calendar MCP

Where the decks and sheets actually sit, whatever the tracker says.

Wired intoOpsComms OperatorDeck MakerGoogle Drive MCP

Where the work lives for the platform teams. I write into it more than I would like.

Wired intoOpsJira and Confluence OperatorTicket Writer

The other place documents live. Every company has at least two.

Wired intoOpsNotion OperatorNotion MCP

In Indonesia the conversation happens here, not in the inbox. The thread ends up being the record.

Wired intoOpsComms Operator

Where a document goes when it has to be branded, shared, and read by somebody who will never open a repo.

Wired intoOpsDoc WriterDeck MakerGoogle Drive

The other CRM, on the marketing side. I have wired forms and lifecycle stages into it.

Wired intoOps

Lifecycle email against an ecommerce dataset. Segments rather than a send list.

Wired intoOps

The other office suite. Half the people I work with live in it, so I work in it too.

Wired intoOpsMicrosoft 365 MCP

Self hosted automation, for the workflows I would rather own than rent.

Wired intoOps

The CRM under a sales organisation I have built around. Objects, reports and a great many opinions.

Wired intoOps

Where some of the teams I work with run their day. I go to their channel rather than make them come to mine.

Wired intoOpsSlack MCP

Payments, subscriptions, and the webhooks that have to be right the first time.

Wired intoOpsStripe MCP

Messages and calls from code, for the flows where something has to reach a phone.

Wired intoOps

Runtime, bundler and test runner in one binary. Fast, and I still check what it is doing differently.

Wired intoDevOps

The only reason any of this is reversible.

Wired intoEngineeringWorktree ManagerExecutor

84+ repos, and the review surface for most of them.

Wired intoDevOpsExecutorClone ManifestCode ReviewerGitHub MCP

Creating a repo, reading a pull request, proving a new repo is actually private, without leaving the terminal.

Wired intoDevOpsClone ManifestPR BabysitterGitHub

The default, and the one whose lockfile I have had to read the most carefully.

Wired intoDevOps

Rust's build tool and package manager. It is the part of Rust that needs no defending.

Wired intoDevOpsRust

Keeps the decks and the image sets out of the git objects, so cloning a document repo stays survivable.

Wired intoEngineeringGitClone Manifest

Java builds, from the service work and the plugin years. The XML is not a feature.

Wired intoDevOpsJava

The same job with the disk and the install time handed back. What I use on the machine carrying many repos.

Wired intoDevOps