Cranking out Good Code 
Hey, I'm Joseph
I've built software that tested Olympic athletes for doping and pipelines adopted by 1,000+ engineers at Salesforce. These days I'm deep in agentic engineering — designing AI that actually ships work. I write about developer tooling, agents, and the craft of engineering at scale. More about me →
Recent Posts
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Six Talks at AIMUG: Building Agents That Work
Updated:Six talks I've given at Austin LangChain / AIMUG, from Grokbot and Jev to LangGraph fraud detection, OpenClaw, Claude Code in Chrome, Cursor, and Odoo over MCP, with recordings and how to join.
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Jev, Calibrated AI Decisions, and Living with Personal Agents: My AIMUG Talk
Updated:Notes from my AIMUG Austin talk: why Jev's calibrated probabilities are a big deal for cost, speed, and trust, how I actually use a personal agent every day, and what I learned from the other speakers.
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Lake of the Angels: Three Days in the Olympics with My Brother
My brother Daniel and I spent three days and two nights backpacking to Lake of the Angels and the Hagen Lakes in the Olympic Mountains. Clear water, a sky full of stars, and a reminder of how good it is to have a brother who loves the outdoors.
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Five Days in Medellín: The City of Eternal Spring
Sarah, Eliza, and I just got back from Medellín, Colombia. Good food, kind people, green mountains, a long drive practicing Spanish with our driver, and a few things I noticed once we got home.