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.
I Read 73 Claude Skills by Three of the Best Skill Writers. None of Them Shout.
I went through every SKILL.md in pstack, HumanLayer's skills and Emil Kowalski's skills, counted what they have in common, and read how they're built. Three very different shapes, one shared habit, and a few things I'm stealing for my own skills.
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All posts- Sep 29, 2026 Make the Model Watch Its Own Frames - A Motion Graphics Test with Opus 5.5
- Sep 28, 2026 Openship: Self-Hosted Deploys Where the Control Plane Can Be Your Laptop
- Sep 26, 2026 What Claude Code Tells the Model When You Hit the 5-Hour Limit
- Sep 25, 2026 Would You Share the Prompt? A Review Rule for AI-Written PRs
- Sep 24, 2026 My Claude Code Plugins Cost 17k Tokens Before I Type a Word
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.