Blog
Notes on things I've built or learned, at work and in side projects: React, React Native, AI tools, testing and debugging, plus my conference talks.
tania@tany4 ~ % ls posts | count-by topic
13 ai
8 side projects
7 mobile
6 mcp
6 react native
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- Letting an AI agent edit my Google Docs safelyMy MCP server now creates and formats its Google Docs, and changes one section at a time, with rules so the AI agent can't wreck them. · new · ai, mcp, side projects
- Rewriting my dog's medication app from my phoneMario's medication app still let doses slip, and every fix meant sitting at my laptop. So I rebuilt it from my phone, with Claude Code, Expo and a GitHub Action. · new · ai, react native, mobile, side projects
- What I built after Kent C. Dodds's webinarTwo weeks after writing about Kent C. Dodds's agent setup: decision notes every agent session reads, a weekly read of the code that recommends instead of deleting, and a backup we actually restored. · new · ai
- What I'm taking from Kent C. Dodds's agent setup, and what I'm notKent C. Dodds ships code he hasn't read. I run AI coding agents in parallel the same way. What our setups share, what I'm taking from his, and what I'm not. · new · ai
- Running AI coding sessions in parallelHow I went from two or three AI coding sessions to as many as fifteen at once on a two-person team, what broke along the way, and the hub session I added to keep track of it all. · ai
- Greek voice commands for Android AutoGoogle Assistant doesn't speak Greek in the car, so I built an Android Auto app in Kotlin that does: Greek speech, and contacts saved in Greeklish. · ai, mobile, side projects
- Teaching my job-hunting MCP server what it can doMy MCP server's agent kept saying things weren't possible, adding duplicate rows and ignoring a linked doc. The fix was better tool descriptions. · ai, mcp, side projects
- Taking my job-hunting MCP server remoteI turned my job-hunting MCP server from a laptop-only tool into a remote one I use from my phone: the transport switch, free hosting, and a 502 only ChatGPT hit. · ai, mcp, side projects
- Fixing the app I built for my dog's medication scheduleA year ago I built an Expo app to remind me about my dog's eye drops. I came back to it with Claude Code, fixed the notification bugs, and rewrote most of it. · ai, react native, mobile, side projects
- Building a job-hunting MCP serverI built a personal MCP server that researches companies, scores how well a job fits, and tracks my applications. · ai, mcp, side projects
- 7 Years at OlioWhat I learned in 7 years at Olio, going from mid-level developer to Tech Lead: architecture, shipping products and working with people. · career
- Vibe coding an AI chatbot into my websiteOne evening I built a small AI chatbot into this site with the Vercel AI SDK. It only answers questions about my actual work. · ai, side projects
- Getting Confident with GitHub MCP Server: A Real QA WinI had to QA a back-end PR with almost no context. GitHub MCP Server helped me do it, and also got one important detail wrong. · ai, mcp, testing
- Experimenting with GitHub MCP Server as a Front-End DevUsing GitHub's MCP Server as a front-end developer to understand back-end code faster and improve my types, without jumping between repos. · ai, mcp
- Build automation using Fastlane and TravisA year ago releasing the Olio React Native app took most of a day and sometimes failed anyway. Schemes, build variants, match and fastlane got it down to an hour or two across three stores. · react native, mobile
- JS VidCon 2020My JS VidCon talk on how Olio uses React Native to reduce food waste: how we migrated a production app quickly and kept performance and developer experience under control. · talks, react native, mobile
- Mocking React Native 0.61 modules with JestReact Native 0.61 removed Haste and broke a lot of Jest mocks. Why it happened and how I fixed it. · testing, react native, mobile
- React Conf 2019My talk at React Conf 2019 on how we built and migrated the Olio app to React Native with a tiny team, what broke, and what we'd do differently. · talks, react native, mobile
The posts are the long version. My CV has every role and date in one place.
tania@tany4 ~/blog % cd ../cv cv