This Portfolio

I wanted a small, considered place to write about how product gets crafted. For an audience that builds things, a page you can open and inspect makes the point better than a paragraph about taste — so this site tries to be an example of the thing it’s about. It’s built to be read, not scrolled.

How it’s built

Static and owned: Astro and MDX, self-hosted type, a small set of design tokens, and almost no JavaScript. It’s a few folders of plain files I control, it loads instantly, and nothing about it depends on a platform I don’t own. For people who build software, that restraint is part of the point.

Agentic development is a craft

I built this with an AI coding agent, working in conversation grounded in an agentic knowledge management system. The point I most want to land is that agentic development is itself a craft. The agent does the typing, but the craft is in the direction: setting the intent, making the calls, holding the standards, and deciding what “good” looks like. Done well, it’s closer to engineering than to autocomplete.

Crafting the knowledge

Quality comes from the knowledge you give the agent, so this repo carries its own. A brains/ directory, in a portable open format, holds the thinking behind the site — its ideas, decisions and technical design — and the deeper context behind individual articles. People can read it, and so can agents. Crafting that knowledge, and keeping it current, is what drives the quality of everything else. It’s the same agentic knowledge management I work on day to day.