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Aug 16, 2026
Building Overcut 002: Adding a HUD and Tuning the Car
This week I added Overcut's first complete driving HUD, tuned the prototype car, and smoothed out a problem section of Aldermoor. Sound and 3D art also made it clear how many disciplines this project will require.
Aug 9, 2026
Building Overcut 001: From Text Files to Repeatable Laps
The first Overcut development vlog goes behind the graybox: a track authored as text, racing lines an agent can edit and measure, generated art pipelines, and repeatable multi-lap runs.
Aug 8, 2026
My Newest Project Is a Racing Game: Overcut
I'm building Overcut, a collisionless team racing game—and using the project to learn what solo game development looks like in the agentic engineering era.
Aug 8, 2026
What Building Aloud Cards Taught Me About Agentic Engineering
I built and shipped an offline, voice-driven flashcard app with AI agents. Here is what worked, what I would change, and why shorter feedback loops mattered more than running more agents.
Aug 3, 2026
The AgentSkill Pattern: When a Skill Should Be an Agent
Take something you'd write as a skill, implement it as a cheaper sub-agent with a narrow tool set, and let your main session delegate to it. Here's the frontmatter for both Copilot and Claude Code — and the gotchas nobody warns you about.
Jun 25, 2026
How My Team Changed Our Code Review Culture for the Agentic Era
My team at Microsoft stopped treating code reviews like a free-for-all and rebuilt the culture for an era where agents write a lot of the code — assigned reviewers, junior engineers brought in early, and PRs built around validation and diagrams instead of line-by-line nitpicking. Here's what changed and why it's working.
Jun 25, 2026
Copilot App Canvases — and the Excalidraw One I Built
A tour of canvases in the GitHub Copilot app, plus a showcase of Excalidraw Workbench — a canvas I built so the agent can generate, edit, and take comments on diagrams without ever leaving the app.
Jun 11, 2026
When AI Credits Stopped Feeling Finite
I work somewhere with a virtually unlimited AI budget. It's an incredible benefit — and it's quietly making me a worse decision-maker about which model to reach for. Here's what I've noticed, both the upside and the downside, and what I'm trying to do about it.
Jun 3, 2026
Plan Big, Execute Auto — A Cheaper Way to Run GitHub Copilot
The auto model picks the right model for each task and gives paid plans a 10% discount. Plan with a heavyweight, switch to auto to execute, save tokens.
Apr 28, 2026
Skills Pay the Bills, But Scripts Ship
Skills are incredible — shareable, intelligent, loaded on demand. But sometimes a simple script does the job faster, cheaper, and without burning your context window. Here's how to know which one to reach for.
Apr 25, 2026
Context is King - Managing Your Context Window in Copilot CLI
Context is the invisible budget behind every Copilot CLI session. Here's what fills it, why it matters, and the tools for keeping your sessions sharp.
Apr 23, 2026
Instruction Files & /chronicle — Teaching Copilot Your Codebase
Instruction files are how you teach Copilot your project's conventions, and /chronicle is how those instructions evolve over time. Here's the deep dive I promised.
Apr 22, 2026
Agents, Skills, Plugins & Extensions — Customizing GitHub Copilot
There's a whole ecosystem for customizing Copilot — agents, skills, hooks, plugins, and extensions. Here's what each one actually is, where the files go, and how they work together.
Apr 19, 2026
The Best Open Source Contribution Might Not Be Code Anymore
Pull requests used to be the gold standard of open source contribution. But in the age of AI-assisted development, a well-filed issue might be worth more than a PR. Here's what I'm seeing change.
Apr 15, 2026
How My Workflow Actually Changed
Since January I've stopped writing code and started directing agents. Here's the cycle I use every day — Research, Plan, Execute, Nudge, Review — and what it actually feels like.
Apr 14, 2026
Customize Your Terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI
Your terminal is more than a black box — it's your workbench. Here's how I use GitHub Copilot CLI to shape mine, and why the lost art of CLI tool crafting is making a comeback.
Apr 13, 2026
Hello World
First post on the new site — what this is, why it exists, and how it's built.