jprokay

# Julian Prokay's Blog

> Full-stack developer with 15 years of experience architecting systems, building teams, and deploying infrastructure. Writing about AI development, software engineering, and the intersection of technology and creativity.

I'm Julian Prokay, a software engineer passionate about building tools and sharing insights about modern development practices, particularly around AI-assisted coding and efficient software workflows.

## Blog Posts

- ["pi: The Coding Agent For Your Workflow"](https://jprokay.com/post/018-pi-coding-agent): Most coding agents (and especially their interfaces) have limited extensibility. pi is a minimal terminal harness you extend with TypeScript — custom tools, commands, and even the TUI. Here's how I built three extensions that turned it into an agentic IDE.
- [Working on the Go with Terminus, Tailscale, and Claude](https://jprokay.com/post/017-mobile-dev-workflow): A look at using Terminus, Tailscale, and Claude Code to enable productive development sessions from anywhere.
- [Looking back on a year of change](https://jprokay.com/post/016-reflections-on-2025): 2025 has been a transformative year both personally and professionally. Let's reflect and look forward to 2026
- [devenv - The best tool for the job](https://jprokay.com/post/015-devenv): You start a new project, you open up the README, and begin going through all the installation instructions. Oops someone forgot to document a dependency! What if you could get rid of this problem entirely? What if setting up a project just required you to open it up?
- [Process update - How I use Agents as of Dec. 2025](https://jprokay.com/post/014-process-update): My process has solidified over the fall into something consistent and repeatable. Even as models change, I have found a lightweight, easy to manage flow with Claude.
- [Finally Understanding Subagents](https://jprokay.com/post/013-finally-understanding-subagents): Creating subagent configurations for specific tasks in Claude Code or Opencode.
- [Planning with Claude Desktop, Coding with Claude Code ](https://jprokay.com/post/012-claude-and-claude-code): Using different types of Claude to play to their strengths
- [Claude Code Custom Slash Commands ](https://jprokay.com/post/011-slash-commands): 3 Custom Slash Commands to orchestrate an end-to-end development life cycle using Claude Code
- [Remote Agents and You ](https://jprokay.com/post/010-remote-agents): Remote coding agents like Devin are getting a lot of hype. Are they ready for primetime?
- [Helpful MCP Servers ](https://jprokay.com/post/009-mcp-suggestions): 3 MCP Servers that have made a difference
- [Enterprise Vibe Coding ](https://jprokay.com/post/008-enterprise-vibes): Ideas on avoiding slop when you are trying to vibe
- [Reformed AI Skeptic](https://jprokay.com/post/007-on-ai-assistance): AI assistants are changing coding. Is it still worth the skeptism?
- [Shifting Left ](https://jprokay.com/post/006-shifting-left): AI is shifting the task of engineering towards one of judgement and evaluation. What skills will the engineer of the future need to be successful?
- [Minimal Viable Blogging ](https://jprokay.com/post/005-mvb): Starting a blog doesn't require Rails, Django, or Astro. You can do it with HTML, CSS, and a bit of Caddy. Start your own Minimal Viable Blog
- [Sorting files in reverse order ](https://jprokay.com/post/004-sorting-files): Using Sprig and Caddy template functions to render a list of posts in reverse order
- [Styling code blocks with Chroma ](https://jprokay.com/post/003-styling-code-with-chroma): Setting up CSS with Chroma to render code blocks
- [Anatomy of a Post ](https://jprokay.com/post/002-anatomy-of-a-post): Leveraging Caddy's splitFrontMatter to build a feed
- [Hello World ](https://jprokay.com/post/001-first-post): Using Caddy templates to generate a link feed ala Simon Willison

## Technical Interests

- AI-assisted development workflows
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI tool integration
- Minimalist web architectures
- Developer productivity and automation
- Software engineering best practices

## Contact

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-prokay/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/jprokay)
- [Bandcamp](https://bandcamp.com/jbeard)

## Optional

- [Homepage](https://jprokay.com/): Personal website and blog
- [Blog Feed](https://jprokay.com/feed): Complete list of all blog posts