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Managing AI Agents on a Remote Devbox

How to manage AI agents on a remote Linux devbox using git worktrees, tmux, and VS Code Remote - SSH to keep sessions durable, isolated, and easy to review.

AI AgentsRemote DevelopmentBest Practices

Roy Berris · 2026-10-06 · 9 min

///cobalt.dune.titan

Start Treating AI Like a Human Colleague

Why treating AI like an engineering colleague means handing over desired outcomes and whole systems instead of micromanaging at the component level.

AIAI AgentsSoftware ArchitectureEngineering Leadership

Roy Berris · 2026-10-04 · 8 min

///module.indigo.aurora

Clearing my evening thoughts with a personal VPS

How I stopped evening work anxiety by wiring up a private VPS, Matrix, and an Obsidian second brain into an always-on personal AI assistant.

AIAI AgentsSoftware Architecture

Roy Berris · 2026-09-26 · 7 min

///echo.pulse.copper

The Three-Layer System for Consistent AI Specifications

How we use a three-layer compiler pipeline to generate functional design specifications with AI, compiling business truth down to verifiable contracts.

AISoftware ArchitectureBest Practices

Roy Berris · 2026-09-26 · 12 min

///willow.cedar.hollow

Designing APIs for AI Agents: Schemas, Security and MCP

AI agents now call our APIs, but few of us design for them. How I use schemas, consistent patterns, security and MCP ideas to serve developers and agents.

API DesignAI AgentsSoftware ArchitectureDesign Patterns

Roy Berris · 2025-10-21 · 10 min

///thunder.blaze.rocket

AI-Assisted Blogging: When Technology Meets Technical Writing

How I blog with AI as a writing partner, not a ghostwriter: I bring the insights and own every technical claim, AI helps with structure and readability.

AIBloggingTechnical Writing

Roy Berris · 2025-09-29 · 5 min

///sensor.pebble.pulse

Standardizing API Conventions with ADRs

How one two-hour DevAlign session and a set of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) gave my team consistent API naming, versioning, errors and pagination.

APISoftware ArchitectureADRTeam Collaboration

Roy Berris · 2025-09-05 · 4 min

///shard.helix.bridge

The Statically Generated Umbraco Website

How I turned my Umbraco website into a static site with xStatic and free Netlify hosting in under an hour, and who should and shouldn't use this approach.

UmbracoHosting

Roy Berris · 2023-09-08 · 5 min

///graph.solar.stellar

Using Value Objects in .NET

What a DDD value object is and how to build one in C#, using a hexadecimal color code with equality by value, a guarded factory method and immutable behavior.

.NETC#Design Patterns

Roy Berris · 2023-02-08 · 7 min

///vector.onyx.copper

Going Headless with MVC: Umbraco Community Day Talk

My Umbraco Community Day 2023 talk on headless and MVC: decoupling Umbraco from the presentation layer, with the source code of the working prototype.

UmbracoSoftware Architecture

Roy Berris · 2023-01-19 · 1 min

///garnet.tide.amber

Start Using Roslyn Code Analyzers

How to set up Roslyn code analyzers like StyleCop with a shared .editorconfig in .NET, configure rule severity, fix issues and suppress rules the right way.

.NETBest PracticesTeam Collaboration

Roy Berris · 2022-10-10 · 11 min

///jade.cedar.arc

Implementing a Configurable CSP in ASP.NET Core

What a Content Security Policy is and how to build one from appsettings.json with ASP.NET Core middleware, including report-only mode and excluded paths.

.NETSecurity

Roy Berris · 2022-09-14 · 7 min