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Short things I have learned — snippets, discoveries, and quick explanations.

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Why I Keep Reaching for Monorepos

Shared packages, one timeline, and a build pipeline that only rebuilds what actually changed. The longer I work in a monorepo, the more I notice the friction it removes.

  • monorepo
  • turborepo
  • pnpm
  • workspaces

TWS Press: Treating React Router Like a Typesetter

TWS Press is a React Router app that exports itself to PDF, grades the output against a rubric, and ships signed download links. Treating a web framework as a typesetter turns out to be a quietly powerful idea.

  • publishing
  • react-router
  • playwright
  • bun

Lessons From Building a Multi-Agent Personal Assistant

Why a supervisor with twelve specialists beats one giant prompt, what shared memory unlocks, and why the most interesting AI app is the one your old apps could already have been.

  • ai
  • agents
  • architecture

Bun Shell and Bun Cron Basics

Two Bun APIs that have quietly replaced half of my scripting toolkit: Bun Shell for running shell commands from TypeScript, and Bun Cron for scheduling them. Here's the short tour.

  • bun
  • typescript
  • scripting

Bun Shell Meets Replicate: A Tiny Stack With a Huge Surface Area

Bun Shell plus the Replicate SDK is one of those combinations where the sum is wildly bigger than the parts. A single TypeScript file can now reach into thousands of hosted models, pipe the output into real files on disk, and glue the whole thing into the rest of my system.

  • bun
  • replicate
  • ai
  • scripting