Samuel Lawrentz · engineer & team lead · 9+ years
I build interfaces,
systems, and teams.
Nine years of shipping pixel-perfect UIs and the systems behind them. I write monthly about the craft - code, tools, and leading engineers.
kron - I Got Tired of Cron Not Telling Me Anything
Cron runs your job and forgets it ever happened. kron is the small Rust tool I wrote that keeps every run's output, exit code and duration one command away.
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Writing
All posts- Oct 04, 2026 I Forked taskwarrior-tui Until It Felt Like Linear
- Oct 03, 2026 How I Wired Claude Code Into Neovim (It's Smaller Than You Think)
- Oct 02, 2026 Three Years of tmux, One Commit to Leave - Moving to Herdr
- Oct 01, 2026 My Herdr Setup - Keybinds, Popups and Hopping Between Agents
- Sep 30, 2026 I Read 73 Claude Skills by Three of the Best Skill Writers. None of Them Shout.
Projects
GitHubkron
Cron, but it actually tells you what happened. Output capture, run history, failure tracking.
clipssh
Send clipboard screenshots to remote SSH hosts.
jira-commit-helper
VSCode extension that puts JIRA ids into commits.
quotes-generator
Browser image quote generator with Unsplash backgrounds.
react-highlight-textbox
Highlight patterns inside a text input in real time.
rc-json-editor
Lightweight, dependency-free JSON editor for React.
pasttenser
A tiny API that returns the past tense of any English verb.