Tag:project

All the articles with the tag "project".

• I Think I'm Starting to Feel Like a Real Engineer

  Published:11 Jul, 2026

  • 6 min read

  Reflecting on how much I've learned building real projects this year — plus what shipped in PinedIn's latest update: MCP support, zen mode, and a round of debugging I was overdue for.

• PinedIn: Building a Task App That Refuses to Be Ignored

  Published:2 Jun, 2026

  • 4 min read

  How I built PinedIn, a floating always-on-top task app in Tauri and Rust — and why I designed urgency levels that actively resist being snoozed away.

• Teaching AI Coding Agents to Write Commits That Don't Suck

  Published:24 May, 2026

  • 5 min read

  How I built Smart Git Commit, a portable skill that gives any AI coding agent an 11-phase commit workflow — secret scanning, test gates, and a 5-part message format.

• Building TRIX: A Terminal-Native IDE With No Electron, No Browser, No Bloat

  Published:16 May, 2026

  • 4 min read

  How I built TRIX, a lightweight terminal IDE in Python using Textual — embedding a real PowerShell, theming, and the tradeoffs of staying keyboard-first.

• Building Mend-Ai: A Canvas That Draws Diagrams From Plain English

  Published:18 Apr, 2026

  • 4 min read

  How I built an AI-powered diagramming canvas with Groq, React, and Supabase — and what I learned turning natural language into editable shapes.