I'm Steve. I garden with more enthusiasm than skill and build small things for the town I live in.
This is where I write it down. Mostly the yard, sometimes the town, usually whatever project ate the weekend. Once a month I take stock, and it rarely matches the plan.
2026
- Two Springs On the front yard, the pivot, and the difference between checking boxes and pacing yourself.
- claude-agent-bootstrap: The Script Behind 215 Commits in One Weekend One setup.sh that turns any repo into an autonomous Claude Code agent fleet. Here's how I built it, and how you can use it.
- Mapping Barrington's Construction Activity with State & County Data I pulled NJ DCA permit records, stitched them to Camden County GIS parcel data, and had Claude build an interactive dashboard for every building permit in Barrington Borough.
- How a local town used an AI community tool to improve public safety Barrington, NJ reached 100% hydrant coverage during the latest snowstorm through shared community reporting and municipal adoption.
- Simulation Bias is Already Here A Reddit post about an AI hallucinating analytics data for months is the clearest real-world example of simulation bias I've seen yet.
- January 2026: Month in Review Fire hydrants, Pi-holes, n8n workflows, and way too many debugging sessions.
- When Seconds Count: Building a Crowdsourced Fire Hydrant Snow Tracker How do you mobilize a community to improve public safety?
2025
- A Day in the Life of a Technical Program Manager in 2035 Imagining how AI-native teams, agent swarms, and simulation bias will reshape a TPM's daily routine.
- RIPDB: Resting In Pop Culture A Halloween-soft launch for my little celebrity mortality tracker.
- Are Our Programs Simulations? When status replaces reality, programs collapse. Reflecting on simulation bias and why PMOs must keep teams grounded in reality as AI-mediated insights scale.
- Coming Home to Myself From tangible work to sharing my garden's story
- May 2025 Garden Update How I enjoy being outside at home
Or wander off into outside, town, tinkering, monthly, or work.