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Notes on building better agents, workshops, and community

July 24, 2026 · 2 min read

My $300 Million Dollar Dream

Why I picked a number, said it out loud, and started building toward it in public.

July 21, 2026 · 4 min read

Dax by Dominic — Launch

A menu-bar app for the way I actually work: half in the terminal, half in an LLM. Five tools, five shortcuts, no window to manage.

June 30, 2026 · 2 min read

Building Dax for Myself — Launching Soon

The best tools I have ever shipped started as something I refused to keep doing by hand.

May 18, 2026 · 2 min read

Winning a Webby This Year

An award for work I made mostly at night, for reasons that had nothing to do with awards.

April 9, 2026 · 2 min read

Judging at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard

What a few hundred student demos taught me about the difference between a good idea and a good build.

February 26, 2026 · 2 min read

Skill Adherence Over Large Datasets

Agents do not fail because they cannot do the task. They fail because they stop following the instructions halfway through.

January 14, 2026 · 2 min read

Becoming an Official Contributor to OpenClaw

It started with one annoying bug and a patch I almost did not open a PR for.

November 12, 2025 · 2 min read

OpenClaw as the Backend to a Web App

What happens when the agent is not a feature bolted onto your app, but the thing serving the requests.

September 20, 2025 · 2 min read

UCLA Hackathon — Best Organized

Nobody remembers the schedule that ran on time, which is precisely the point.

May 2, 2025 · 2 min read

Moving to SF from Indiana

I spent years arguing that location does not matter anymore. Then I moved, and found out what I had been missing.

March 15, 2025 · 2 min read

Winning My First Hackathon

The build was rough, the demo barely held together, and it turned out that was not what was being judged.