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.
Turn a Book Into Claude Code Skills - What Ten of Them Taught Me About Writing Skills
Someone turned a business book into ten Claude Code skills. I read all ten, ran one on a real decision, and came away with a template for turning any method you already trust into a skill.
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- Sep 10, 2026 Interrogate What You Built Before Calling It Done - I Ran the Prompt on My Own Repo
- Sep 09, 2026 Herdr Raised $6M. Why Would Anyone Fund a Terminal Multiplexer?
- Aug 17, 2026 Lighthouse 41 to 100 - Delete the Cool Thing First
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.