root@devlin-vining:~# ./connect --portfolio --stealth
[*] establishing secure channel[OK]
[*] decrypting identity[OK]
[*] mounting /dev/portfolio[OK]
[✓] ROOT ACCESS GRANTED
[ IDENTITY ] uid=1000(devlin)

DEVLIN VINING

> AI-Native Senior Software Architect

● AVAILABLE // all systems nominal

> ./projects > ./blog
~# neofetch devlin@vining
role
AI-Native Senior Software Architect
experience
15+ years · full-stack · mobile · devops
location
San Jose, CA
mode
one-person engineering team · AI-native · ~100× pace
stack
.NET · C# · Kubernetes · Blazor · MCP · TypeScript · PostgreSQL
field notes
18 published
status
● available for hire
~# cat ./featured/quittrack.app 1 record
QuitTrack ● LIVE

Your pocket-sized quit coach.

Log a craving, watch the savings climb, and breathe through the hard moments — a full quit-smoking tracker that rides in your pocket.

methods
cold turkey · NRT · MAT · tapering [4]
tracks
cravings · savings · streak timeline
helpers
mindful breathing · push notifications
themes
7 selectable packs
type
installable PWA // add to home screen

[!] Install on your phone home screen and enable notifications for the full experience.

> launch ./quittrack _
~# tail -f ./thoughts.log 18 entries
2026-06-19 The Marble and the Weather: Bending Light That Moves Like Smoke A neon bender takes a commission for light that drifts like smoke and remembers a touch, and learns the hardest thing to un-teach a light is how to be a circle. READ > 2026-06-15 The Open Darkroom: A Machine for Photographing Websites, and Why I Gave It Away A night-shift machinist explains the contraption he built to take honest, identical photographs of web pages — and why, after keeping it in a drawer for two years, he set it loose on the world for free. READ > 2026-04-16 The Darkroom in the Pipeline: Teaching Machines to Judge Your Design A freelance consultant discovers that the best way to iterate on web design is to never look at it directly — push your CSS into a CI pipeline, let a headless browser photograph every page, and judge your work through a contact sheet of PNGs downloaded at two in the morning. READ > 2026-03-10 The Shared Radio Problem: Field Notes on a Cascade Failure Six hours at a particleboard desk, tracing a hung Ansible playbook down through bridge-port state transitions to the angular unconformity at the bottom of the stack: one 5GHz radio, two incompatible jobs, and a Kubernetes cluster that had been routing its own heartbeat through a data center thirty miles away. READ > 2026-02-28 The Needle and the Haystack: Semantic Tool Search for Small Language Models A gardener and a technical writer sit down to discuss vector embeddings, cosine similarity, and how to teach a tiny model to find the right tool READ > 2026-02-07 The Sound of the Canyon: Teaching a Machine to Sing in E Minor A wandering musician discovers you can write a desert sunset soundtrack in Python — note by note, beat by beat — and wire it into a game engine that turns sound into light. READ > 2026-02-06 The Trail Through Canyon Country: Forging a Game Development Toolchain A trail boss rides through Godot engine country, building MCP bridges, AI test riders, and UI preview windows to tame the visual iteration loop. READ > 2026-02-02 The Ballast Exchange: A Naval Chronicle of Storage Migration When the HMS Surfstation's storage system grew too cumbersome for her crew, Captain Dowell ordered a daring refit—trading Ceph's complex machinery for simpler provisions. READ > 2026-01-24 The Name of the Thing: A Meditation on Distributed Meaning A philosophical exploration of the new Translation Service, self-healing localization, and the power of naming things in a distributed system. READ > 2026-01-17 The People's Palette: When Users Pick Their Own Poison A follow-up to The Aesthetics Racket—what happens when you let users choose their own colors instead of picking for them. READ > 2026-01-17 The Aesthetics Racket: Confessions of a UI Styles Hustler A dark confession about building a library of beautiful lies—pixel by pixel, hex code by hex code. READ > 2026-01-14 The Session That Wasn't There A deep dive into the debugging session that uncovered ghost sessions, proxy protocol lies, and the race conditions that haunt our servers. READ > 2026-01-13 The Ghost in the Machine: Server-Side Rendering and the SEO Matrix We jacked into the mainframe and rewired the rendering engine. No more client-side ghosts. Now, the server speaks the truth. READ > 2026-01-12 The Protocol Protocol: RFC 9728 and the Art of Metadata Discovery An exploration of how the MCP server uses OAuth Protected Resource Metadata to make itself discoverable to strangers in the vast dark of the network. READ > 2026-01-06 The Quest for the Registry Mirror: A Tale of Cluster Abbey An epic tale of OpenIddict upgrades, HTTP/2 stream errors, and the triumph of Buildah over Docker-in-Docker, told in the grand tradition of Redwall. READ > 2026-01-04 Operation Cluster Restore: A Technical Intelligence Briefing When a rogue deployment brought down the entire cluster, we had to go in through the back door. READ > 2025-12-31 The Varchar Blues: A Database Migration Noir A hard-boiled tale of schema drift, SSL certificates, and midnight deployments. READ > 2025-12-29 Setting up a K8s Homelab My journey building a Kubernetes cluster at home has been both challenging and rewarding. READ >

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