Agents Shouldn't Need Babysitting
I've been noodling on how to make agentic coding less about dry prompting and constant manual guidance, and more like an actual syste... Read more →
Danny Peck
Electronic Musician && Software Engineer
Electronic Musician specializing in electronic music production. Software Engineer specializing in AI, React, TypeScript, and high-performance design systems. Currently exploring the edges of electronic music and visual synthesis from Montague, Michigan.
Music Links
Same composer across the years — now releasing as Danny Peck.
Listen on Spotify | Apple Music | Buy / own on Bandcamp | Watch on YouTube
Earlier work: dep | A Defiant Heart | dep Bandcamp
If you found me as dep or A Defiant Heart — welcome. Everything new lives here.
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Software Projects
Synapse - Synapse is a growing family of beautiful, GitHub-backed apps that turn your notes, meetings, and ideas into a living second brain — readable by you, your tools, and your AI agents. The suite includes Synapse Notes, Synapse Meetings (a beautiful, markdown-driven notes editor), Synapse Commander (a lightning fast, two-pane file manager), Synapse Web Clipper (a quick and easy way to save things you find online to your GitHub vault), and coming soon Synapse Cloud (the over-arching agent orchestration layer).
Heads Up - Calendar Alerts - My ADHD needed this badly and the only other option in the store cost like $20-something a year. So I whipped up an alternative. All it does is give you a full-screen alert when your meeting is starting (customizable based on when and which calendars), and surfaces the Zoom link in a button.
Mana - A Claude Code companion built for MacOS that floats on top of your windows and reacts to Claude Code and opencode activity via hooks.
Capacities Quick Note Pro - A companion Android app for Capacities that allows you to quickly save notes and Weblinks to your Capacities vault.
Walkabout Scorecard - An Android/iOS app that allows you and your friends to track your scores -- a companion app for the Walkabout Minigolf VR game.
My Daily Briefing - An Android app that gives you a daily briefing of your tasks, calendar events, and weather.
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Thoughts
Am I Actually Upset?
There's a question I keep coming back to: "Am I actually upset, or am I upset because I think I'm supposed to be?"It might sound like a weird th... Read more →
AI Slop is the default, but it's also a choice
There's a common take floating around that software built with the help of an LLM is slop by default. And honestly, I'm not here to argue with that. ... Read more →
The Collapsed Series
There's something profoundly different about music designed to disappear into the background. Not background music in the dismissive sense, but sound that becomes part of the air you breathe, the tho... Read more →
The Inflection Point: When AI Stopped Being a Tool and Started Being the Team
We're one good software iteration away from engineering getting sliced right out of the SDLC.I don't say that lightly. I've been neck-deep in these models since ... Read more →
AI Doesn't Reduce Work. It Intensifies It.
I read this HBR piece this morning and it resonated with me immediately. The headline says it all: AI Doesn't Reduce Work. It Intens... Read more →
The Joy of Writing Code in an AI World
A few days ago I wrote about imposter syndrome and the evolution of what it means to be a developer, where I talked about the importance of shifting our ... Read more →
AI, Imposter Syndrome, and the Evolution of What It Means to Be a Developer
"As my AI usage goes up my imposter syndrome goes up. Also you lose the sense of pride, right? I mean I used to be so proud of myself when I figured out something tricky and now I can just give tha... Read more →
Ava Bot: Architecture Update & Lessons Learned
It's been a wild few months building out Ava, my Telegram assistant. I wanted to share where things stand, what I've learned, and some patterns that have really paid off.This is a follow-up to my e... Read more →
Grappling With AI: The Joy and the Fear
I just finished watching Mo Gawdat on Diary of a CEO, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it.If you do not know Mo, he was the Chief Business Officer at Google X. He is not some random ... Read more →