Field Notes

Setting up a self-hosted, Linear-driven AI coding agent on my own server, and the two things that took actual work: keeping the bill sane and not handing it too much access.

I wanted one screen that surfaces everything I care about during the workday: without juggling tabs, picking up my phone, or sending my data to anyone else's cloud. So I built one. Here's what's in it, the caveats, and who it's actually for.

Forget the perfect prompt - mastering context management is the real secret to productive AI-assisted development.

Keep your personal and work GitHub identities separate with SSH config tricks that route keys automatically.

10MinuteMail is faster and mobile-friendly now - a complete overhaul to match modern web standards.

My first Maven Central library: Free Cloudflare Turnstile integration for Spring Boot with zero CAPTCHA friction.

AI-powered translation keeps your Java message bundles in sync across languages without manual translation work.

Working 50% on two projects rarely means 50% productivity each - the hidden costs of context-switching compound fast.

Stateful sessions on Cloudflare Workers beat JWT sprawl when your admin needs context and data persistence.

Cloudflare Workers beat Lambda on latency, cold starts, and pricing - I'm migrating production apps to the edge.

Spring User Framework gets a major upgrade two years later with new features and flexible architecture.

Explore AWS Bedrock API, a direct competitor to OpenAI with Generative AI LLMaaS, and the implications of its Signature v4 authentication method. This article delves into the complexities and potential developer challenges posed by AWS's security-focused approach, highlighting the importance of simplicity and documentation in developer adoption.

Build your own Wufoo with TypeScript and AWS - serverless forms that store data and send alerts automatically.

HTTPS breaks LiveReload in Spring Boot - here's the WebSocket fix to keep hot reloads working over secure connections.

Spring Boot DevTools auto-restarts your app and reloads the browser - speeds up dev cycles significantly.

Migration from Avada theme left many pages broken - fixes coming as the rebuild continues.

GraalVM Native compilation cuts 10MinuteMail startup time and memory footprint from Java baseline.

I have run into some issues getting Micronaut, GraalVM, and Native builds working correctly on my Apple Silicon M1 Max based MacBookPro. So I wanted to share what I've needed to do to get things working correctly.

Spring Shopify App Framework handles auth, webhooks, and REST/GraphQL APIs for building Java-based Shopify apps.

After 18 years of Eclipse, VSCode is faster, lighter, and better for modern Spring Boot development.