Posts
// 15 entries, newest first
vincent's next refactor: intake, workshop, and handoff as three separate pillars // Why I want vincent to work like the developer of a small software company, the three pillars that job splits into, how GitHub issue handling is tangled into today's workflows, and why pulling it out is the first step. 
Professional Antipatterns: reprimanded for not committing enough // In 2025 I was reprimanded because my commit count on the company's KPI dashboard was lower than other people's, while I was the lead architect and team lead. How an agent skill that split my work into more commits made management believe I had improved, why commit count fails as a KPI, and what a healthy alternative looks like. 
When agents write code faster than humans can review it // Agentic coding moved the bottleneck from implementation to review and accountability. What a redesigned review pipeline needs, what vincent already does about it, and the parts I have not solved. 
vincent 0.9.0: event triggers, pull request actions, and a firmer base for 1.0 // What vincent 0.9.0 adds and hardens: triggers that propose work on their own, pull request actions from the task, agents inside the task container, and the fixes and guardrails that make it the biggest step yet toward a first stable release. 
LangGraph vs vincent: generic graph primitives against an opinionated coding-agent runtime // Where the two genuinely overlap, why a generic graph runtime has no word for worktree or merge conflict, what vincent's opinionatedness costs, and how the two layer instead of compete. 
HotRulez, my free Firebase Rules plugin, passed 1000 downloads on the JetBrains Marketplace // The free and open-source Firebase Security Rules plugin for JetBrains IDEs is on the Marketplace now and past a thousand downloads, in a corner of the ecosystem where every other option costs money. 
vincent 0.8.0: resolving one issue as a DAG of parallel agent lanes // Why a dependency graph of work units spends less wall-clock than one long agent session, what vincent 0.8.0 added to make that runnable, and what the real runs cost. 
vincent 0.7.0: the control plane now runs its own development // What changed from vincent 0.4.0 through 0.7.0: agent-authored workflows, recovery tools, a scriptable control plane, richer task workspaces, and the point where vincent began carrying all of its own development. vincent 0.4.0: richer workflows, a roomier TUI, and wider distribution // What changed since 0.1.0: reusable workflow control flow, usage-limit recovery, a responsive TUI, and WinGet, Scoop, mise, deb, and rpm distribution. MarkPad 0.11.0: I shipped YAML support in my lightweight local-first Markdown editor // MarkPad is a small Tauri 2 desktop editor with a live preview, and 0.11.0 makes YAML a third first-class document language next to Markdown and JSON: highlighting, validation, folding, and Format and Sort keys that go through a real document model so comments and anchors survive. Plus Mermaid and Graphviz diagrams and outside-edit detection. 
Two days tracing a silent deny: cursor-agent runs PowerShell hooks with bash on Windows // A debugging field report: when MSYSTEM is set, cursor-agent on Windows composes its imported Claude Code hooks as PowerShell and evaluates them with bash, so every tool call is silently blocked while the CLI still exits 0. Two days to trace, the raw stream-json output gave it away, Cursor confirmed and reproduced it the same day, and an A/B run narrowed the trigger to that one Git Bash variable. Self-hosted LLMs as agentic coders: what 12 and 24 GB of VRAM delivered // A field report on trying to replace Codex and Claude Code with local inference: Ollama then LM Studio, OpenCode and Qwen Code as harnesses, and Gemma 4, GPT-OSS, Qwen and Agents-A1 models on a 12 GB RTX PRO 3000 laptop and a 24 GB RTX PRO 4000 desktop, against a production Dart and Flutter Firebase repo. gcbad_dart: I open-sourced a strongly-typed Dart client for the GoCardless Bank Account Data API // A pure-Dart client that wraps the GoCardless Bank Account Data API v2 end to end: automatic token management, the requisition consent flow, and typed accounts, balances, and transactions, with every failure as one exception. On pub.dev under MIT. HotRulez: I created a free open-source Firebase Rules handling plugin for JetBrains IDEs // A JetBrains plugin that finally treats Firebase Security Rules as a real language: structural highlighting, formatting, diagnostics, and symbol intelligence for .rules files, no auth evaluation. whoami // The long version of what lezli01 resolves to: C++ close to the machine, big cloud systems on Kubernetes and AWS held up by DevOps and infrastructure, a relentless tool-experimenter, Dart and Flutter to ship fast, and the one thing I am not.