Hello
Hi I'm John, and I've been writing software for most of my life.
I made a silly little app a few years ago which I turned it into a company, pivoted, took though a startup accelerator, raised funding for, pitched successfully on national TV, sustained through a pandemic, and eventually sold.
Now I'm a tech lead / early-stage CTO / amateur baker.
Recent Projects
- HarbourKeep human intent in command of AI execution
- Harbour OSA full desktop environment running entirely in your local browser
- LighthouseWatching what AI systems do on the internet, and publishing what it finds
- HerdSheep herding game
- DashThe (cheaper) coding agent for your coding agent
- MangoDB ðŸ¥File-based MongoDB alternative
- Claude Session AnalysisSpots friction and patterns in your Claude Code sessions
Posts
- Eight Lines, Forty-One Sessions
- Every Fix Is Paid Where It Is Written
- Learning While the Tools Change
- The Folded Loop: An Outside Take
- The Harbour Archive
- MangoDB: When Files Are Good Enough
- Your Tests Are Green. Your Prompts Are Broken.
- Human-AI Collaboration Analysis: Optimizing Your Claude Code Workflow