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Engineering Notes

How things actually work. No tutorials, no hype. Just what I built and what I learned.

How Blackreach works and why I built it differently ReAct loops, DOM walking, stealth Playwright. Why every other approach kept failing.

Velqua Mesh: transparent multi-agent coordination without an SDK One port number. All your agents share memory. Here's the architecture.

Linear A and why I want to take a crack at it 70 years of failed phonetic matching. Why the tools available now are different.

ghboard: I built a GitHub dashboard for my terminal BubbleTea, Go, and why I never want to open a browser just to check my notifications again.

Why I built my own job application agent LazyApply, Simplify, Huntr — and why every existing tool failed a Canadian targeting Ashby-heavy AI companies.

I gave Claude Code a voice — and why nothing else worked VoiceMode, ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS — why I scrapped all of them and built a local TTS with karaoke highlighting instead.

We spent months measuring whether our AI was getting better or worse Most teams ship agents without knowing if they actually work. We built a tool to fix that.