Intina

Building tools that solve problems I actually have.
Learning everything along the way.

Developer. Maker. Perpetual student of craft, systems, and the spaces between design and code.

Projects

jot

CLI Tool · 2025

A command-line note-taking tool that lives where developers work—in the terminal. Quick, searchable, and local-first. Because context-switching to a separate app breaks flow.

The real learning: publishing to Homebrew, understanding package distribution, and the surprising depth of making something "simple" actually simple. From first commit to homebrew-jot.

context-sync

AI Context Management Tool

A local, open‑source MCP server that gives developers a persistent AI memory across tools like Claude Desktop and Cursor, so conversations, decisions, and project state survive context limits and tool switches. It keeps a project‑aware knowledge layer—code, notes, and todos—synced in one place, so your assistants can pick up exactly where you left off instead of rebuilding context from scratch.

Built out of my own frustration with AI tools that forget everything every 2,000 tokens. The real learning: Automatic context extraction from diverse sources, building a reliable sync engine, and designing for extensibility so others can build on top of it.

Writing

A small upgrade with surprisingly big consequences. In this post, I introduce a new way of writing and sharing ideas that makes code clearer, content friendlier, and creativity far more flexible.

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Avoidance in Disguise as Engineering

Engineering is supposed to reduce uncertainty — not become a place to hide from it. If you find yourself endlessly polishing something no one has seen, you’re probably not improving the system. You’re avoiding the moment where it becomes real. And trust me — that moment is where all the good stuff starts.

06.01.26

On beginnings, building in public, and why this blog exists at all.

07.01.26

On building the thing you're reading this on—a meditation on editorial design, countless iterations, and learning that sometimes the best interface is the one that gets out of the way.

Trace News

Tech news coverage, focused on the signal and built for fast context.

Daily briefings on product moves, policy shifts, and the real-world impact of emerging tech.

Enter Trace News →

Signal in the Noise

A nightly pulse on breakthroughs, pivots, and quiet revolutions shaping tech before breakfast.

Operators & Oracles

AI co-pilots are moving from novelty to necessity. We map the power dynamics — and the punchlines.

Latency, Love, and Launches

Startup drama, product launches, and the occasional existential cliffhanger — told with a wink.

Approach

I build tools that solve problems I actually encounter. Sometimes they're polished. Sometimes they're prototypes. Always, they're motivated by genuine need rather than abstract potential.

The learning happens in the gaps—between deciding to build something and shipping it, between reading documentation and understanding it, between thinking you know how something works and actually knowing.

This site is a record of those gaps. Projects, writing, learnings. Some technical, some philosophical, all honest.