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Notes on building software, working with AI, and life on Linux. Proof that I'm not a copywriter.

2026

  1. Drifting Away from PhotoCraft: Omapix Found Its Own Lane

    Omapix leaned hard on PhotoCraft for its first month, then stopped taking anything from it after October 20th. Here's why the borrowing dried up, what Omapix has been doing instead, and why I'm still watching PhotoCraft every day.

  2. Piggybacking on ArtCraft: Why My Oma Apps Got Easier to Build

    ArtCraft released open-source Rust rebuilds of Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator and Figma right as I started my own Omarchy apps. Here's how Omacull, OmaLux and Omapix borrow from them, why they still need to exist, and why Omavec doesn't.

  3. Building Omapix: Replacing Photoshop on Linux with Rust and Opus 5.5

    GIMP drove me to Adobe in the first place, so I'm building its replacement. How I direct Omapix, a Rust image editor, with Claude Opus 5.5, plus OmaCull and OmaLux to ditch Adobe end-to-end.

  4. How a 5-Hour Podcast Finally Made Me Ditch Windows for Omarchy

    I tried Linux in 2018 and crawled back to Windows. A five-hour Lex Fridman podcast with DHH changed that. Here's how Omarchy became my daily driver, with a headless Ubuntu box for compute and a Mac Mini for Xcode.

2025

  1. Deploying a Zero Sync Engine on Coolify

    How I deployed a self-hosted Zero Sync engine to a VPS with Coolify and PostgreSQL, from the database settings through permissions to connecting the Svelte client.

  2. From Skeptic to Power User

    I spent a while dismissing no-code automation as a thing for people who can't write scripts. I was wrong. Here's how I ended up on n8n, why I'm moving to Windmill, and how Zapier and Make compare.

  3. Mastering Prompt Engineering

    My actual workflow for writing prompts that work - the loop I run, the techniques I reach for, and why being good with language matters more than being good with the tool.

  4. Simplifying My Life & Maximizing My Impact

    The AI projects I actually built and use - a chatbot for this site, a resume and cover letter generator that cut my application time by about 70%, and what's next.

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