Blog Articles

A collection of blog articles and thoughts on software development, technology, and other topics.

ai · 9

cursor · 7

developer-experience · 3

MongoDB · 3

vector-search · 3

blog · 2

coding · 2

embeddings · 2

mcp · 2

productivity · 2

public speaking · 2

rag · 2

workflow · 2

16 results

Sep 18, 2026 · 4 min read

I Built a Teleprompter Because My Screen Share Kept Showing My Notes

Lozenge started as a prompter for live demos and went through four names before one stuck. The one thing that never changed was that the audience can't see the window.

Sep 6, 2026 · 7 min read

Wire Grok Bot to a Local LLM on Your Mac

How I wired my Grok Bot agent fleet to oMLX on Apple Silicon for private local inference - architecture, setup steps, benefits, drawbacks, and a copy-paste agent brief.

Sep 3, 2026 · 8 min read

A LanceDB Table Can Hold 2.65 GB of Video While a Search Over It Reads None

The bytes a search touches and the bytes a table holds live in different files. LanceScope measures both, from Lance's own IO counters, and puts the number next to whatever you just did.

Jul 20, 2026 · 5 min read

Cursor Is Hiring. I Built a Game So You Can Try the Job Before You Apply.

Cursor has an opening called AI Adoption Engineer, and it's a hard role to explain in a job posting. So instead of describing it, I built a small arcade game where every mechanic is a piece of the actual job. Here's what it is and why I think it's worth ninety seconds of your time.

Jul 11, 2026 · 16 min read

The Best Prompt on Your Team Is the One Nobody Else Can See

You prompt, let it run, deslop it, re-prompt. It works until the window closes. Skills, Rules, and Subagents are how you teach the agent once and let it remember — alone and on a team.

Jul 4, 2026 · 11 min read

The Software Factory Is Here - and It Runs on Cursor

Everyone's talking about an AI-driven SDLC 'software factory.' Here's what that actually looks like now that Cursor has cloud agents, Bugbot, and native intake from Jira, Linear, Slack, and PagerDuty, plus the steps to wire each stage up yourself.

cursor

sdlc

software-factory

Jul 4, 2026 · 6 min read

I Knew Git. I Just Never Had a Reason to Branch.

I learned version control back in the Subversion days, but I never learned how to work like a team. Here's how a protected main, a PR-only workflow, and Cursor holding the discipline finally closed the gap.

cursor

git

developer-experience

Jun 7, 2026 · 10 min read

I Almost Didn't Try Cursor. Here's What I Was Wrong About.

I assumed Cursor was VS Code with autocomplete. Five wrong assumptions later, here's what actually changed my mind - and one low-stakes way to find out for yourself.

cursor

developer-experience

agent-mode

Mar 9, 2026 · 13 min read

Asymmetric Embeddings: Building a Personal Brand RAG Pipeline with Voyage 4 + Claude

A practical guide to asymmetric retrieval: embed with the best model, query with a lighter one — and learn three different ways to get your docs into MongoDB Atlas.

Mar 27, 2025 · 6 min read

Building Lightning Hire: Project Overview and Architecture

The first in a series exploring the development of Lightning Hire, an AI-powered resume evaluation system built to revolutionize the recruitment process through intelligent candidate matching.

recruitment

Next.js

MongoDB

Mar 27, 2025 · 5 min read

A Day in the Life of a Principal Developer Advocate

Dive into the dynamic world of developer relations as I share what a typical day looks like in my role as a Principal Developer Advocate, from content creation to community engagement.

Mar 26, 2025 · 3 min read

Boosting productivity with Cursor

Discover how Cursor's powerful rules system can streamline your coding workflow, enforce consistency, and help your team code smarter and faster.

cursor

coding

productivity

Apr 7, 2024 · 5 min read

RAG chunking lifecycle: How document chunking strategies impact AI response quality

Explore how different document chunking strategies affect the quality of AI responses in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, with practical examples and code samples.

rag

mongodb

vector-search

Jan 26, 2019 · 4 min read

10 Tips for the Hackathon Beginner

Learn how to navigate the challenges of a hackathon and maximize your chances of success.

hackathon

developer

coding

Mar 26, 2015 · 4 min read

My Last One

Michael shares the painful story of his final alcoholic binge, waking up humiliated under his desk as his wife leaves him. A friend's timely call helps him face reality, leading him to sobriety through AA. Now sober for over five years, Michael emphasizes that lasting change and a meaningful life are truly possible.

blog

test

recovery

Mar 26, 2015 · 4 min read

3 Powerful Things to Remember when Speaking Publicly

Overcoming common public speaking fears to become a better communicator

blog

public speaking

advice