Notes from the workbench

2026-03-12 · 5 min

Shipping AI features that feel useful, not novel

Chat widgets are easy. Useful AI is a product decision: where it sits in the flow, what it is allowed to get wrong, and how people recover.

2026-01-28 · 4 min

A portfolio can still be a product: fast images, honest metadata, and motion that does not fight the first paint.

2025-11-04 · 4 min

The fastest way to help a learner is rarely to finish the PR for them. Here is the review habit I actually use.