Engineering leader who still shipshttps://johnryancottam.com/en-ushttps://johnryancottam.com/notes/type-ship-and-mean-it/https://johnryancottam.com/notes/type-ship-and-mean-it/Every PR has a tax — rebasing, linting, changelogs, and docs. A /ship agent skill runs the checklist so you can open the PR and mean it.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnryancottam.com/notes/the-data-exists-nobody-assembles-it/https://johnryancottam.com/notes/the-data-exists-nobody-assembles-it/Engineering output shouldn’t be measured by gut feeling. One dashboard assembles GitHub, ADO, and Cursor activity into a single view, with one shared tool registry for chat and MCP.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnryancottam.com/notes/stop-asking-ai-to-make-it-look-better/https://johnryancottam.com/notes/stop-asking-ai-to-make-it-look-better/Design commands and automated checks for coding agents. Improve UI in focused passes with Impeccable—not vague make-it-better prompts.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnryancottam.com/notes/mcp-on-bun-and-hono-with-mcp-handler/https://johnryancottam.com/notes/mcp-on-bun-and-hono-with-mcp-handler/mcp-handler is a Web-standard Request handler. Mount it on Bun and Hono to serve MCP over Streamable HTTP without building the transport yourself.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnryancottam.com/notes/stream-ai-responses-in-production/https://johnryancottam.com/notes/stream-ai-responses-in-production/A loading spinner hides progress. Stream AI responses with Hono and the Vercel AI SDK, then handle the failures that appear in production.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://johnryancottam.com/notes/how-i-actually-use-claude-code/https://johnryancottam.com/notes/how-i-actually-use-claude-code/Claude Code is most useful when the task is bounded, the repository supplies the context, and every result is verified before it ships.Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT