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.
Obsidian in the Terminal - I Pointed emeraldian at My 199-Note Vault
A Rust TUI that opens your existing Obsidian vault with backlinks, a force-directed graph and Vim mode. I ran it on my real vault on a headless Linux box. Here is what rendered.
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Writing
All posts- 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
- Aug 01, 2026 Glance - A Self-Hosted Alternative to Claude Artifacts
- Jul 07, 2026 The Five Ways to Bring Your Boss a Problem
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.