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.
I Forked taskwarrior-tui Until It Felt Like Linear
Taskwarrior holds my tasks, timewarrior holds my hours, and a fork of taskwarrior-tui glues them together with Linear-style pickers, a worked-time column and a pomodoro tab.
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Writing
All posts- Oct 03, 2026 How I Wired Claude Code Into Neovim (It's Smaller Than You Think)
- Oct 02, 2026 Three Years of tmux, One Commit to Leave - Moving to Herdr
- Oct 01, 2026 My Herdr Setup - Keybinds, Popups and Hopping Between Agents
- 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
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.