Becoming a tech lead was the goal from pretty early in my career. I had a clear picture of what the role was. More responsibility, more influence over the work, more of the interesting problems landing on my desk because someone had to figure them out and that someone, finally, would be me. It read like the natural next step. The thing you graduate to once you're good enough. What that picture did
Claude + Mobile via MCP: Giving the Model Hands on a Real Phone I plugged in a Pixel two months ago, ran one command in Claude Desktop, and watched it open Maps and start navigation to my home address from a single sentence prompt. It was the first time I'd ever seen a language model physically operate a phone. Latency was about two seconds per action; the part that surprised me was the third st
AI-Native Mobile Testing: What It Actually Means in 2026 The phrase "AI-native" has been thrown around in the testing space since 2019. Almost every tool calling itself that just bolts a language model on top of Appium and ships the same brittle XPath selectors with a new label. That's not AI-native testing. That's Appium with a chatbot. This post is about what AI-native actually has to mean to
The Missing Control Plane for Local AI Agents I sat with my Pixel for 20 minutes trying to get Claude Desktop to dictate a Slack message via accessibility. It was miserable. The model was capable. The transport wasn't. That gap — between an AI that can reason and an AI that can actually do — is what I've been working on with Drengr. This post is the version of the argument I'd give to anyone bui
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I have been meaning to upgrade my personal site to Astro 6 for a while. The release notes sat in my open tabs for weeks, and every time I sat down to do it, I found an excuse to work on something else. This week, I finally ran out of excuses. I carved out an afternoon, ran npx @astrojs/upgrade, crossed my fingers, and expected a smooth ride. The dev server crashed immediately with a cryptic error
For years, I called myself a web designer. Then a developer. Then a digital consultant. None of those titles ever felt quite right. Because clients weren't just asking me to build things. They were asking me to solve problems. Slow sites, broken checkouts, confusing navigation, teams that couldn't figure out how to update their own content. That's when I realized what a technology solutions profes
I've been working remotely for a while, and most of what I picked up in the first six months turned out to be wrong, or wildly overrated. Not bad advice exactly. Most of it sounds reasonable when you read it. It just isn't doing the work it claimed to. The "wake up at 5am, dedicate a workspace, use the Pomodoro technique, journal every morning" stack is a kind of theater. Some of it helps a little