Hi!
My name is Tom Johnell. I am a software engineer, engineering leader, and more recently have been searching for a small business to own & operate. I hope to write in this blog to share updates on my life and ventures.
Recent Posts
- Homelab deployments: a tutorial made of prompts
- Shoulder Surgery Part 1
- Vivid EV golf cart parts don't exist, but there's hope
- AI labs should sell security report cards for open-source releases
- OpenInterstate - Canonicalized U.S. Interstate Highway Data
- Mega Backdoor Roth Calculator
- Dungeon Crawler Carl Interactive Character Sheets
- Reflections on a 38 Day Roadtrip
- Everything's a repo, everything's an agent
- Who should you subject to your vibe-coding?
- LLMs can be absolutely exhausting
- Pike - Solving the "should we stop here or gamble on the next exit" problem
- I made a mistake - Posturr is now Dorso
- Dorso (formerly Posturr) is now on the Mac App Store!
- Dorso (formerly Posturr) - A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
- LLMs have a bad habit of using the "latest" container image
- Remote Docker for Agents
- 2025 McGuireWoods Independent Sponsor Conference - Learnings & Reflections
- Introducing Cassette Capital, a new Independent Sponsor
- MCP from the User’s Lens