FROM THE GRIMOIRE

Thoughts on design, data, cats, AI and the macabre

Trying to fit AI into an Enterprise Workflow (It wasn't a straight line) AI

Trying to fit AI into an Enterprise Workflow (It wasn't a straight line). 📉📈

Bringing AI into a complex enterprise environment with firewalls and legacy code is a different story than a demo. Here's my journey.

When the dev resources were pulled to other projects, I turned to AI. Here’s what happened. AI

When the dev resources were pulled to other projects, I turned to AI. Here’s what happened.

I turned to AI to build production-grade Angular components when dev resources were scarce. Here's what happened.

FIELD NOTES: WHEN AI 'MAGIC' HITS THE PAYWALL AI

FIELD NOTES: WHEN AI "MAGIC" HITS THE PAYWALL

My experience comparing No-Code AI speed with Agentic IDE control.

FIELD NOTES: TESTING 3 DIFFERENT AI CODING WORKFLOWS AI

FIELD NOTES: TESTING 3 DIFFERENT AI CODING WORKFLOWS

I’ve spent the last year experimenting with different AI workflows to find the perfect fit for a Design Engineer mindset.

7 Hours to Freedom: Why I Ditched WordPress for Static HTML AI

7 Hours to Freedom: Why I Ditched WordPress for Static HTML

Why I Ditched WordPress for Static HTML

From Legacy Hosting to Serverless: My New Portfolio is Live AI

From Legacy Hosting to Serverless: My New Portfolio is Live.

Building a custom portfolio with AI collaboration and modern infrastructure

Why is writing your own case studies harder than doing the actual work? UX

Why is writing your own case studies harder than doing the actual work? 😅

Refactoring my career narrative from "Things I Did" to "Value I Deliver"

The Lightbulb Moment: Figma MCP, Debugging, and the Art of Translation AI

The Lightbulb Moment: Figma MCP, Debugging, and the Art of Translation

Bridging gaps in code and communication

Using Gemini to stress-test my portfolio UX

Using Gemini to stress-test my portfolio against the current market.

I needed an objective perspective to ensure my content hits the right notes for the 2025 job market.

The leap from 'Vibe Coding' to Spec Coding AI

The leap from 'Vibe Coding' to Spec Coding

Steering docs and spec docs and task docs, oh my!

The missing link between Design and Code isn't just AI. It's also a Designer using AI. AI

The missing link between Design and Code isn't just AI. It's also a Designer using AI.

Updating Storybook on my own- Look Ma, no devs!! well except for the PR :)

AI WRITES THE CODE - EXPERIENCE WRITES THE ARCHITECTURE AI

AI WRITES THE CODE - EXPERIENCE WRITES THE ARCHITECTURE

AI needs a driver who knows the road. It didn't suggest the sustainable path—I had to demand it.

BUILDING A BLOG IN JUST 30 MINUTES AI

BUILDING A BLOG IN JUST 30 MINUTES

Much better than static markup editors for blogs

UX Dark Patterns in Amazon Shopping History UX

UX Dark Patterns in Amazon Shopping History

Using an AI coded chrome extension to cut through the veil of darkness

Cursor coding portfolio 2.0-better resume download AI

Cursor coding portfolio 2.0-better resume download

Using Cursor to make a sustainable process for updating a downloadable PDF on my portfolio

Finally closing the gap between Design and Code AI

Finally closing the gap between Design and Code.

The difference was instant. Cursor corrected the layout immediately because it could actually read the structure.

From Figma directly to Code AI

From Figma directly to Code: My experience learning Cursor AI.

Cursor AI has removed those guardrails. It allows me to take my exact Figma design and turn it into a static site.