Thank You, America

A note of thanks on America's 250th, for every opportunity and for everyone who paid for this freedom.

Why I default to soft deletes: customers get an undo button, and an AI agent that goes rogue in your system can only ever do reversible damage.

Building Marquis

My wife's PR firm tracked media coverage in a spreadsheet. I asked if they wanted something better. Two months later, Marquis went live.

I built a media intelligence platform for a small PR firm over two months. About three-quarters of it got written on my phone.

AI agents forget everything between sessions. One living spec file the agent reads on startup replaces the morning ritual of re-explaining the project.

One Hour to Save the Data

I needed cross-region disaster recovery for DynamoDB. Built a config-driven CDK solution with AI in about an hour. The org adopted it by noon.

Why This Blog

Twelve years of shipping software with nothing public to show for it. A record of what I built, what broke, and what AI changed about how I work.