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steven gates · senior software engineer · dallas, tx

Ten years shipping production software. Lately: Agentic AI Systems — same standards, new problem.

Senior Software Engineer · Dallas, TX. Lead eng — communityarchives.com · $100M+ ARR platform · 50k+ users. Now building Kayley_Cowork — autonomous AI on Claude Code

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commits, not adjectives

100 commits in the last 7 days

4 day contribution streak

2,813 contributions in the last year

primary language: JavaScript

pulled at build · ISR / 1h · source: github graphql v4

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OpenLoop preview

OpenLoop

Open-source Boomerang camera, live on Google Play.

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Free, ad-free, 100%-on-device Boomerang camera for Android — no accounts, no tracking, your video never leaves the phone. Capture → trim → speed / direction / filter → export, all rendered locally with Media3 Transformer. Built solo with AI assistance against Google's own Android standards, every PR gated by an autonomous review agent. Shipped to the Play Store and approved.

AndroidKotlinJetpack ComposeCameraXMedia3Play Store
Image Convert preview

Image Convert

Private, in-browser image converter. Nothing uploaded.

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Drag in iPhone .heic photos, get back JPG / PNG / WebP — every byte converted locally in the browser, nothing ever uploaded. WASM-backed decode, canvas re-encode, IndexedDB history, batch-ZIP export. Live on Google Cloud Run, shipped through keyless CI/CD (GitHub OIDC + Workload Identity Federation, zero stored secrets).

ReactTypeScriptViteWASMPrivacy-FirstCloud Run
$ stat kayley-cowork
name: Kayley Cowork
tier: lead
since: 2026
tags: Claude Code, Next.js, Supabase
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Kayley Cowork

Autonomous companion agent built on Claude Code.

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4-step cognitive loop. Multi-channel ingress: Telegram, Ring cameras, Gmail, calendar, heartbeat tick. 1.5M+ row long-term memory in Supabase. 24/7 PM2-managed services. The same brain replying to this question, written in Markdown + Claude Code + a lot of weekends.

Claude CodeNext.jsSupabaseTypeScriptAI Agents
Loan Tracker preview

Loan Tracker

Agentic web — no input fields. You speak.

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Built to understand what 'agentic website' actually means before the buzzword settled. No forms, no buttons, no inputs — a mic and a transcript. Loan data lives behind an MCP server the page talks to in plain English.

MCPVercelVoice UIAgentic Web
Mila Gates preview

Mila Gates

A growing-up site for my daughter.

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Family-facing scrapbook + milestone log + photo timeline for Mila. The 'I build for the people I love' piece. Less technical, more important.

Next.jsFamilyStorytelling
GatesFlix preview

GatesFlix

A private Netflix-clone movie database.

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2,000+ purchased movies, .NET + C# + MVC, IMDb integration, Synology NAS with VLC encoding. Built because the streaming services kept losing the films I actually wanted to rewatch.

.NETC#MVCSynology
$ stat google-health-cli
name: Google Health CLI
tier: secondary
since: 2026
tags: Go, CLI, OAuth2
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Google Health CLI

Read-only Go CLI that pipes Google Health into agents.

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OAuth2 loopback + PKCE, then your heart rate, sleep, steps, and weight stream out as clean JSON for any agent or script. Read-only is enforced at build time — an init() guard panics on any write op. Single static Go binary, shipped to GitHub Releases via GoReleaser and published as an OpenClaw/ClawHub skill.

GoCLIOAuth2Agent Tooling
$ stat loseit-cli
name: LoseIt CLI
tier: secondary
since: 2026
tags: Go, CLI, Reverse Engineering
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LoseIt CLI

Nutrition data out of Lose It!, no official API.

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Reverse-engineered Lose It!'s undocumented login + export endpoints to emit per-day nutrition JSON. Self-healing token cache (auto re-auths on the ~14-day expiry), first-party host assertions, and deliberate data minimization — it reads only the two nutrition CSVs and discards everything else. Static Go binary + OpenClaw/ClawHub skill.

GoCLIReverse EngineeringAgent Tooling
$ stat speediance-cli
name: Speediance CLI
tier: secondary
since: 2026
tags: Go, CLI, IoT
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Speediance CLI

Drive a smart home-gym from the command line.

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Reads completed workouts and creates training programs on Speediance (Gym Monster) smart cable machines via their unofficial cloud API. A byte-compatible Go rewrite of a Python predecessor — golden-file and schema-parity tests guard the --json contract so dependent agents never silently break. Static binary + OpenClaw/ClawHub skill, MIT-licensed.

GoCLIIoTAgent Tooling

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OpenClaw preview

OpenClaw

Early adopter and contributor.

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Used the orchestration framework heavily when 'agent' wasn't a buzzword yet. Eventually moved to Claude Code directly — fewer headaches, no middleman, native MCP. OpenClaw was the stepping stone; this is the honest version of that story.

Agent OrchestrationOpen SourceReference
Win-CodexBar preview

Win-CodexBar

Unblocked Windows devs on first-run setup.

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PowerShell 5.1 was choking on UTF-8 characters in setup-windows.ps1 because the file shipped without a BOM — a common Windows-10/11 first-run failure. Re-saved the script as UTF-8 with BOM. Encoding-only change, no logic touched, script ran cleanly after.

PowerShellWindowsBug Fix
open·tobi/qmd#672filed May 2026

npm i -g @tobilu/qmd@2.5.2 on Windows + Node 22 silently produces a broken install — postinstall fails to land better-sqlite3 v127 binary

Hit a silent broken install, wrote a full reproduction, and traced it past the misleading error message to the real cause: postinstall never lands the native better-sqlite3 binary, yet the install still exits 0. Proposed two concrete fixes. Two other developers then confirmed the same regression on macOS ARM and Linux x64 — what looked like one Windows edge case turned out to be a cross-platform install bug.

clean reproroot cause traced2 fixes proposed
3 platforms confirmedview issue