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Tom Johnell

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Hi, my name is Tom Johnell. I am a software engineer, engineering leader, and more recently have been searching for a small business own & operate.

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33 from 2 Apr 2025 to 17 Sep 2026
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monthly (19 in the last year)
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2026 17

  1. Your 256GB Mac mini is too small. You need Elbowroom.
  2. Claude Roulette - chat with strangers while you slop
  3. Homelab deployments: a tutorial made of prompts
  4. Shoulder Surgery Part 1
  5. Vivid EV golf cart parts don't exist, but there's hope
  6. AI labs should sell security report cards for open-source releases
  7. OpenInterstate - Canonicalized U.S. Interstate Highway Data
  8. Mega Backdoor Roth Calculator
  9. Dungeon Crawler Carl Interactive Character Sheets
  10. Reflections on a 38 Day Roadtrip
  11. Everything's a repo, everything's an agent
  12. Who should you subject to your vibe-coding?
  13. LLMs can be absolutely exhausting
  14. Pike - Solving the "should we stop here or gamble on the next exit" problem
  15. I made a mistake - Posturr is now Dorso
  16. Dorso (formerly Posturr) is now on the Mac App Store!
  17. Dorso (formerly Posturr) - A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

2025 5

  1. LLMs have a bad habit of using the "latest" container image
  2. Remote Docker for Agents
  3. 2025 McGuireWoods Independent Sponsor Conference - Learnings & Reflections
  4. Introducing Cassette Capital, a new Independent Sponsor
  5. MCP from the User’s Lens

Undated 11

  1. #potofhoney
  2. #ai
  3. #career
  4. #cassette-capital
  5. #golf-cart
  6. #homelab
  7. #independent-sponsor
  8. #mcp
  9. #private-equity
  10. #product
  11. Work