1,000 Miles, One Foam Pad, and Everything the Ioniq 9 Taught Us
A 1,000-mile road trip in the Hyundai Ioniq 9: two charging accounts, camping in utility mode, Austin's cheap public chargers, and the tailgate that beat a dresser.
·Randy Walker
Randy Walker
Technology leadership, career insights, and the business of innovation.
Owner of SK Meridian LLC, former President of Harvest Data Corp, and former Microsoft MVP.
Patent Pending. Here's What I Actually Filed.
Two provisional patent applications, filed pro se, on the multi-tile workspace and on automatic chat translation. Here is what is actually in them and why the architecture matters.
·Randy Walker
Connecting Claude to Your Homelab with MCP and Tailscale SSH
Give Claude SSH access to your homelab with an MCP server over Tailscale — bash, browser automation, and unlimited local ComfyUI image generation. Includes the Windows SSH gotcha that cost me an evening.
·Randy Walker
Read the Contract
A guy from an expert network called Ridgetop Research hit me up on LinkedIn last week. Friendly message, totally professional — his client wanted to chat with a former employee of a Fortune 100 compan…
·Randy Walker
You Still Have to Test. Especially When AI Wrote It.
AI-generated code does not get a testing exemption. A walk through what an end-to-end Playwright session caught on the salty.poker build, and why integration testing is the part the methodology cannot delegate away.
·Randy Walker
The Iteration Loop Is Still the Job
Spec-driven agentic development compresses the build phase. It does not eliminate the iteration loop. A debugging story from this week and what it says about the methodology.
·Randy Walker
Debugging Code You Didn't Write (But You're Still Responsible For)
I spent Tuesday morning staring at a 404 from a service I knew existed. The table engine was up. The routes were registered. The tests passed. And every single request from the front end came back wit…
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I Let AI Write My Code for a Week. Here's My Honest Report.
There is a difference between asking AI to help you write a function and asking it to build your company. GitHub Copilot suggests an autocomplete as you type. That is promptresponse AI — you ask, it a…
·Randy Walker
I Built a Chrome Extension to Stop Filling Out the Same Application 200 Times
Two hundred job applications, the same fields every time. How I built a Chrome extension with Claude to autofill them — what worked, what broke, and the code.
·Randy Walker