Posts by Eric Wagoner
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The Tools We Almost Built
Somewhere in our repositories lives a project called Horiizon. It was going to be great. Then it wasn't. We have a small graveyard of internal tools that solved real problems, looked promising, and quietly died anyway.
Between Hype and Rejection: A Practical Philosophy for AI Assisted Development
AI tools divide developers into camps of breathless enthusiasm and principled rejection. Both miss the mark. After a year integrating AI into our workflows, we've identified two failure modes and the assistive approach that works: keeping judgment in human hands while removing mechanical friction.
How I Automated My Morning Standup with n8n (And Got an Unexpected Morale Boost)
Every developer knows the Monday morning standup scramble. I built an n8n workflow that gathers my GitHub and Jira activity and generates a natural standup update delivered to my inbox each morning. The time savings were expected; the daily morale boost wasn't.
What Your Lawn Care Company Can Teach You About Hiring Developers
You don't hire a landscaper or buy a mower for your office lawn. A crew just shows up and handles it. What if your technology worked the same way? That's the idea behind FiTT: a predictable subscription that gives you a development team, not a headcount problem.
When 'Just Refresh' Doesn't Work: Taming PWA Cache Behavior
When Safari's aggressive caching turned our Progressive Web App into a prison for stale content, we embarked on a two-month journey to fix it. Here's what we learned about service workers, cache invalidation, and why 'just refresh the page' doesn't always work.
Meet Diderot: The AI Assistant That Keeps Our Documentation in Perfect Sync
Meet Diderot, a specialized AI agent that helps developers keep documentation synchronized with code changes. Learn how to configure this documentation assistant for different project types and see real-world examples of keeping wikis, API docs, and runbooks up to date.
Meet Ray: The AI Assistant That Turns Our CSS Into Reusable Design Systems
Ray doesn't replace our designers—she organizes our CSS chaos into systematic design tokens and contextually appropriate defaults. Here's how a specialized Claude Code sub-agent helps developers build better starting points for design work.
How We Built This In 30 Days
How three experienced developers built a modern marketing website with 200+ static pages in 30 days of work time using Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS v4, Claude Code, and Cursor IDE—without compromising human ownership of every line of code.
The State of AI in Early 2023
An introductory video into the sudden burst of AI tools in early 2023
Automated Browser Testing: Bridging the Gap Between Dev and QA
How automated browser testing using cypress.io can bring dev and qa together.
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