I built Ray Clicker inside Raycast, and the project turned into a lesson in UI constraints, save migrations, and building for fun first.
Tools Articles
Essays tagged Tools from Jonathan R Reed on AI security, product engineering, design, tools, systems work, research notes, and build lessons.
Notes on tools work
This archive groups writing by practical theme rather than by publication format. Posts tagged Tools include build notes, product observations, security lessons, design tradeoffs, research summaries, and experiments that connect software decisions to real deployment constraints.
Use this page as a focused reading path through the site. The articles below are ordered newest first and link back into adjacent topics so you can move from a narrow subject into related AI, security, design, tooling, ethics, and development notes without relying on search alone.
Smaller tag archives are kept because they capture useful side threads across the work. Even when a tag only has a few posts, it gives readers a stable entry point into the ideas, references, and projects that shaped that part of the site.
The goal is not to turn every tag into a broad category page. It is to make the archive useful for people who arrive from search, a shared link, or an old project note and need enough context to know why the topic mattered here clearly before they keep reading.
Raycast replaces a pile of tiny workflow apps with one fast command bar, and it still manages to stay surprisingly lightweight.
The onslaught of AI news
3 minAI news is a firehose of fluff, broken publishing patterns, and missing feeds. I built an aggregator because checking each vendor site was worse.