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.
An AI If-Statement You Can Run on a 4-Core VM - Trying Kev
Kev is a 0.5B open model that takes typed questions and returns probabilities instead of prose, in one forward pass. I ran it on a cheap Linux VM against real-looking support tickets. It nailed routing and got code review wrong, which is exactly the point.
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Writing
All posts- Sep 19, 2026 Claude Code Reads AGENTS.md Now - Here Is Exactly When It Does
- Sep 18, 2026 Approve Claude Code Permission Prompts From Slack With One Hook
- Sep 17, 2026 BrowserSkill - Let the Agent Borrow a Tab Instead of Stealing Your Cookies
- Sep 16, 2026 I Put 'Do Not Overengineer' in CLAUDE.md and Measured What It Does
- Sep 15, 2026 Turn a Book Into Claude Code Skills - What Ten of Them Taught Me About Writing Skills
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.