Ryan Kanno is a software engineer I’ve admired for a long time. I remember following Ryan from my early Twitter days after moving back home from the valley. About a week ago he published My LLM Workflow. Since then, I’ve implemented it with great success. I think 3 features have been done this way so far for a startup I’m the CTO of, called Mission Management Company. I had already started moving to Claude Code, enjoying it more than any other AI CodeGen tool. But I still had one foot in Cursor and the other in Claude Code. Since doing a deeper dive into Claude Code, I haven’t opened Cursor in the last 7 days! I guess all the time savings I’m reaping is just being spent on this stupid blog and our cute 4-week old orange tabby named Hobbes. More on Hobbes later tho, expect lots of cute pics and videos. As Kaitlyn said, I’m a cat dad now (again).

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And another software engineer I’ve admired is the legendary John Carmack. Here is the preamble to his .plan files:

This is my daily work ...

When I accomplish something, I write a * line that day.

Whenever a bug / missing feature is mentioned during the day and
I don’t fix it, I make a note of it. Some things get noted many times
before they get fixed.

Occasionally I go back through the old notes and mark with a +
the things I have since fixed.

--- John Carmack

I use a modified .plan system based on John’s and tweaks that make it work best for me. By leveraging a plain text based system, I’m able to have my todos autogenerated by Claude. Claude scans my email and calendar and adds to my .plan automatically each morning at 6am off a cronjob.

random access memories .plan
= 20250614 ===================================
*   intro to Hobbes, our one month old kitty.

review some cool hardware shared as “Picks of the Week” from one of my fave podcasts, MacBreak Weekly.
simplex and duplex communication protocols and how they relate to boxing or any martial arts sparring.
pomodoro timer, a rainy day in Shinjuku that I’ve been using to not sit for hours at a time.
current fascination with synthwave, dreamsynth, chillsynth, retrowave music.


Terminal Green

I’m a dork so I love the old monochrome colors for terminals, i.e. terminal green, Color Story: “Terminal Green”. I do miss my first computer, the good old Apple IIc. I admit it’s not that easy to read. If I start to include larger code blocks, I’ll go with my current iterm color scheme which is just the dark background default. For short snippets, I’ll wax nostalgic.