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Building
13 posts
WattWay: Find the Cheapest EV Charging on Your Route
DC fast charging runs $0.20 to $0.59 per kWh — nearly 3× for identical electrons. WattWay plans the cheapest stops for your car. Free, no account.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 eve…
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 y…
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.
Teaching the AI How I Write
How I built a style-guide skill to keep my writing voice consistent across blog posts when working with Claude.
13 Deployments, One Day, and a Grudging Respect for the Process
Yesterday I took a screen scraper project and gave it a proper home on Azure. Containerized, monitored, secrets managed correctly, analytics wired up,…
Spec-Driven Development Needed a Rewrite
Last post I talked about finding out that [what I've been doing has a name](https://thesaltykorean.com/building/ai/development/2026/03/03/specdrivende…
Apparently What I've Been Doing Has a Name
Specdriven development. Who knew that was a thing? I did, apparently — I just didn't know what to call it. Turns out I've been doing it this whole tim…
So I Started a Company. Cool Cool Cool.
Here we go. Again. I've been in technology for nearly 30 years. I've built ETL products from scratch and sold them to clients like Kimberly Clark, Coc…