craft — mockup · homepage-hero

❯ Use craft mockup to create an Open Source feature for Craft on the homescreen.

❯ /craft:mockup

❯ craft › what should this feel like — keynote, ambient, or should we ask the muse?

❯ let's ask the muse

❯ muse › "this should feel like a window into craft, not an ad"

❯ alchemist › 3 stances › A · B · C

❯ B - three more refined. add glow this round

❯ alchemist › glow pass · 3 variations, opened in your browser

❯ nothing in here says open source ✗

❯ alchemist › revision · open source lands

❯ NAILED IT ✓

✓ solidify › tokens.yaml · converged

❯ echo $CRAFT_MOTTO

❯ Stop Prompting. Start Crafting.

❯

running⏸ pausedSee it run

museagent

if it doesn't feel like something, it's dead on arrival

A is wallpaper. B has a pulse

told you — window, not an ad

conductoragent

glow is cheap. will it hold on run 50?

loud failure is a good agent

tokens.yaml or it didn't happen

SENIOR AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER

darinbuilds

I spent 15 years building enterprise systems. Then I taught AI to do it for me

Darin Drobinski. Mostly arguing with AI these days.

Currently building: an AI ecosystem where the tools build each other

Get in Touch

Craft. Open source

craft — mockup · homepage-hero

❯ Use craft mockup to create an Open Source feature for Craft on the homescreen.

❯ /craft:mockup

❯ craft › what should this feel like — keynote, ambient, or should we ask the muse?

❯ let's ask the muse

❯ muse › "this should feel like a window into craft, not an ad"

❯ alchemist › 3 stances › A · B · C

❯ B - three more refined. add glow this round

❯ alchemist › glow pass · 3 variations, opened in your browser

❯ nothing in here says open source ✗

❯ alchemist › revision · open source lands

❯ NAILED IT ✓

✓ solidify › tokens.yaml · converged

❯ echo $CRAFT_MOTTO

❯ Stop Prompting. Start Crafting.

❯

running⏸ pausedSee it run

museagent

if it doesn't feel like something, it's dead on arrival

A is wallpaper. B has a pulse

told you — window, not an ad

conductoragent

glow is cheap. will it hold on run 50?

loud failure is a good agent

tokens.yaml or it didn't happen

THE ECOSYSTEM

This started with one tool. Then it got out of hand.

What started as one script to stop me losing context across 18 terminals turned into... all of this.

Every tool talks to the others. Tap any card to explore it.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Craft Platform

Taming the chaos of terminal sprawl

40+AI harnesses built

27+AI specialists

370+components documented

TypeScriptClaude CodeCustom HooksYAML State Machine

↔ Expert Council↔ QA Agent↔ UX Analysis Agent↔ AI Consumer Platform↔ Knowledge Mining↔ Persona Engine

Eighteen terminals open. Every one had different context. Agents kept going rogue - just building whatever without asking. So I made a system where nothing ships until it's planned and I sign off on it. Sounds intense but honestly it changed everything

Explore Craft Platform

INFRASTRUCTURE

Knowledge Mining

Find that YouTube solution you half-remember

PostgreSQLSemantic SearchDrizzle ORMMCP

↔ Expert Council↔ Craft Platform↔ Persona Engine

INFRASTRUCTURE

Expert Council

Multiple domain experts, one brutal review

TypeScriptPostgreSQLMCPSemantic Search

↔ Craft Platform↔ Knowledge Mining↔ Persona Engine

INFRASTRUCTURE

Persona Engine

One identity across infinite terminals

PostgreSQLSemantic SearchMCPAnthropic SDK

↔ Craft Platform↔ Knowledge Mining↔ Expert Council↔ QA Agent↔ UX Analysis Agent↔ AI Consumer Platform↔ Interactive Skills Demo

AGENT

QA Agent

Finds bugs that make users bounce

MCP Browser ToolsClaude AIHeuristic Analysis

↔ Craft Platform↔ Persona Engine

AGENT

UX Analysis Agent

Nielsen's heuristics, automatically applied

MCP Browser ToolsClaude AINielsen's Heuristics

↔ Craft Platform↔ Persona Engine

APPLICATION

AI Consumer Platform

Personality makes AI feel alive

Next.jsTypeScriptMulti-tenantAnthropic SDK

↔ Craft Platform↔ Persona Engine

APPLICATION

Interactive Skills Demo

Making technical architecture feel alive

CSS Custom PropertiesSpring PhysicsVanilla JSGPU-Safe Animations

↔ Persona Engine

PROOF

Watch it work.

Don't take my word for it. Play with it.

Explore full demo

CSS Custom PropertiesSpring PhysicsGPU-Safe AnimationsTheme Morphing

THE BACKSTORY

Before all the AI stuff, there were 15 years of enterprise systems

Every project named. Every scar earned.

Best Buy

Sr Software Engineer2015-2025 (3 stints)via Improving / independent

Java/Groovy to GraphQL/Node powering BestBuy.com + mobile. Customer Graph, Service Interceptor Shop, Browse/Deals/EGP teams.

T-Mobile

Lead Software Architect2025independent

Architected the T-Life rewards-redemption feature - multi-payment checkout, SMS one-time-passcode verification.

Target

Sr Software Engineer2014-2015via Daugherty

Built Perpetual Inventory - microservices handling 8B+ daily transactions across stores, Target.com, and fulfillment.

Well

Sr Software Engineer2019-2020via Improving

ML-driven health profiles with personalized recommendations. Led ChatBot integration on AWS WebSockets.

MorphoTrust

Sr Software Engineer2013-2014

Biometric ID software (iris, fingerprint, facial) adopted by FBI, NYPD, and TSA PreCheck.

Thomson Reuters

Software Engineer2010-2013 (intern -> engineer)

Built Student Commons (law school portal). HR apps and CMS workflows in Java/C#/Spring.

15+Years of Building

8B+Daily Transactions

370+Components Documented

311+Craft cycles shipped

I started it, yeah. But I've been running it for four months. It's been running me for at least half of that.

WRITING

Notes from the build.

FEATURED

I built Craft for myself. Now it's running me.

I sat down to save what was working. Four months later it's a harness, and I'm not sure who's running who.

May 23, 20268 min read

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The Workout I'd Never Have Picked

I built my own CrossFit gym and still trained the same way I always had. So I stopped choosing my own workouts - and got the training I actually needed

Jul 33 min read

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