Start with your Gmail avatar, then build a habit of making your work easier to find and inspect. Use AI to keep the routine moving while practice, feedback, and honest evidence shape your brand.
Creating value and communicating value are different skills. A private, local-first guide to Big Five personality, work interests, and personal values for early-career engineers and product people.
The sequel to Project FootTraffic. We've been building a custom CMS as part of Auteurs — server-rendered Rust, push-button blocks, inline Stripe. This is the upgrade that turns it into a three-sided marketplace: self-serve tools, an open operator network, and us as the house, clearing a portfolio of small-business work like an order book. With wireframes and the routing model that is the real IP.
A shower-thought thought experiment: attention is the trap and the feed is a slot machine built from the most advanced ML on Earth. A game-theory read of the house — micro (the prompt you almost master), macro (the spend), meso (the randomness the labs tune) — that descends, five whys deep, into a strange loop where building the AI and being built by it turn out to be the same sentence.
It started on a treadmill: vibe-coding while watching a game, I realized I'd become the brain-rot reel — and spun it into a cursed infomercial for a two-screen treadmill. But the reel isn't the point. The point is the machine that makes it: a repeatable control plane — ChatGPT, Linear, an MCP conductor, Blender, ElevenLabs/Suno/Kling — that turns any idea into a published short. And how that same treadmill session dovetailed into a much stranger thought.
An extension of Project FootTraffic: standing up a real store — inline Stripe checkout, a layered camera-zoom UI, the whole thing a Rust templating macro — to test whether one person plus AI can ship commerce people actually buy.
A startup sketch for turning local plazas into destinations: AI-assisted service design, regional operators, and a compounding platform funded one small business at a time.
I built three Rust projects this week without typing a single line of code. Voice → Claude Code → pull requests. The floor is rising for everyone.
Auteurs: a community of engineers, designers, and product managers shipping things that matter. Scan the QR or click through to join the Discord.
I asked Claude to refactor a function used in 47 places across our monorepo. grep found 31. With LSP, Claude found all 47.
Step one of a web framework experiment: building a JSX-like declarative macro in Rust with macro_rules!.