Giving my AI agents access to my RSS reader
How I turned Cove, the Mac RSS reader I built, into an MCP server so my AI agents send me a daily digest in Discord while my library stays on my Mac.
Latest · Building · 10 Oct 2026 · 6 min · 1,346 words
The engineering work I want to keep doing
I delegate implementation to agents while staying involved in design, evaluating larger features, and checking that the whole application works as I expect.
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All writingBuilding an LLM-powered code review sidebar
How I built Sherpa, a Chrome extension that uses LLMs to explain pull requests as you review them, with progressive file and hunk-level detail.
Running AI agents in devcontainers
How to use devcontainers to run AI agents like Claude Code and Codex in isolated environments you control, so you can skip the permission prompts.
Still shipping. Now with agents.
I'm a principal engineer learning new things, building useful tools, and figuring out what I want from my work. These are the field notes.
I work on the AI infrastructure team at Cloudflare. Before that I ran my own startup, Flipt, and before that I helped build GitHub Container Registry.
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