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• Agent Scopes in Practice

  2026-03-16

  A follow-up to my post on agent scopes — what happened when I turned the idea into a working CLI tool that agents can actually use.

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• Agent Scopes - Keeping AI Solutions Right-Sized

  2026-03-09

  Define boundaries and constraints for AI agents to prevent scope creep and architectural drift while maintaining autonomy and efficiency.

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• An Alternative to MCP: Python CLI-Based Agent Skills

  2026-03-02

  Building custom Python CLI tools with Click and uvx as a more stable alternative to MCP servers for AI agent tooling.

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• From Infrastructure as Code to Software as Specs

  2026-02-23

  As AI-generated code becomes cheap and regenerable, specifications and contracts become the assets worth protecting, not implementation details.

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• Making AI Development a Team Sport

  2026-02-09

  AI development is currently a solo activity, but needs workflows where multiple people can see, contribute to, and learn from agent interactions.

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• Every idea can now be explored

  2026-02-02

  AI coding agents have collapsed the validation cycle from weeks to hours, making it feasible to explore every idea and filter efficiently.

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• MCP Tools vs Skills with Scripts - Why Simpler Might Be Better

  2026-01-26

  MCP tools have been patchy in practice, while skills wrapping mature CLI tools provide a more stable platform for AI agents.

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• Skills, Tools, Specs and Workflows - Which One is Which

  2026-01-19

  Clarifying the distinctions between tools, skills, specs, and workflows to build more reliable AI agent systems.

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• The AI Journey So Far - From Traditional to Async Agent Teams

  2026-01-12

  Tracing the evolution from manual coding through Copilot and AI agents to the next bottleneck - the need for async agent teams that can work independently.

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• Dictation is the Way Forward

  2026-01-05

  Switching from typing to dictation as the primary input method unlocks better AI responses and removes the keyboard bottleneck.

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• Getting into Serverless with CDK, Lambda & DynamoDB - Part 2

  2020-05-22

  Adding a DynamoDB table to your CDK stack and connecting it to a Lambda function with proper permissions and local testing setup.

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• Getting into Serverless with CDK, Lambda & DynamoDB - Part 1

  2020-04-21

  Getting started with AWS Cloud Development Kit by creating and deploying a Lambda function using TypeScript and infrastructure as code.

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• Parsing json with Python

  2018-11-13

  Creating a NestedDict class using dpath-python to access deeply nested JSON structures with dot-notation paths and sensible defaults.

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• Managing version with bumpversion

  2018-07-11

  Automating version number management across multiple files in Python projects using bumpversion with git integration.

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• Python invoke with tab completion

  2018-06-03

  Setting up shell tab completion for Python Invoke tasks to improve command-line workflow efficiency in zsh.

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• Using pip-tool to organise python requirements

  2018-06-01

  Managing Python dependencies with pip-tools to maintain pinned versions for reproducibility while easily updating to latest packages.

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• Keeping secrets out of your source

  2017-05-05

  Using envsubst and base64 encoding to inject secrets and configuration into applications during continuous delivery pipelines.

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• Removing older versions on Google App Engine

  2017-05-04

  A bash script to automatically clean up old Google App Engine service versions while keeping the most recent deployments.

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• Cleaning up old git branches

  2017-05-02

  A practical command-line workflow for safely deleting merged git branches while maintaining control over what gets removed.

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