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.
The Five Ways to Bring Your Boss a Problem
You can tell where someone is in their career by how they bring you a problem, not how hard it is. The five levels from something is broken to I already fixed it, and the jump that actually gets you promoted.
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Writing
All posts- Jul 06, 2026 A Sandbox That Boots in 60ms - MicroVMs vs Containers for Untrusted Code
- Jul 06, 2026 Rendering Millions of Points in the Browser Without Killing the Tab
- Jul 06, 2026 The Part of the Job AI Can't Grade - A Developer's Edge in the Age of AI
- Jul 06, 2026 You Can't Avoid the Hard Part - When to Take the Big Swing
- Jul 05, 2026 Being Cheap With Your Tools Is a Tax on Your Time
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.