About

I build software tools for my own use and publish the ones that survive. The projects here exist because I needed them, and the journal exists because the interesting part is often everything that grew around them.

The idea behind my dev journal is straightforward engineering writing, covering the parts of development that usually go undocumented: dead ends, failures reported as plainly as successes, what turned out to be different than expected, and human-and-AI collaboration described factually. Every article stands alone, introduces its project, and carries ideas backed by evidence from the work itself.

Like the projects, the articles are AI-assisted and the mix of my writing and the AI's differs from article to article. Each passage started either as my own text or as an AI draft following a style guide I prepared. Almost every paragraph then went back and forth, rewritten by me and edited by the AI, until it read the way I intended. The topics, the evidence, the arguments, and the final say on every sentence are mine.

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M.J. <author@solutionexplorer.dev>

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