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.
My Herdr Setup - Keybinds, Popups and Hopping Between Agents
One config file, a ctrl+a prefix, and a few keys that jump between coding agents across every workspace. Here is the Herdr setup I use every day.
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Writing
All posts- Sep 30, 2026 I Read 73 Claude Skills by Three of the Best Skill Writers. None of Them Shout.
- 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
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.