Adam Lohnes
The longer story behind this journal — what you’ll find here, why I write, and how to reach me.
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Adam’s Notebook is my long-running writing space for software, AI, and the practical edges of living with technology. I am a software developer who builds things, writes about what I learn, and tries to stay honest about how tools, especially AI, are changing that work.
Think of this site as a digital garden: ideas get planted, revised, and sometimes left to grow in public without a tidy finish line.
Entries are labeled with chips so you can skim by form, not just by topic:
Topics still roam. AI is the through-line, what it is good at, where it misleads, and what that means for developers and anyone trying to stay thoughtful. Software craft, self-hosting, productivity, and the occasional personal cautionary tale show up too.
Writing is how I think. Publishing forces clarity: gaps in understanding do not hide once they are on a page. I also write because others shared generously online when I was learning, and this is my way of paying that forward.
If something here helps you solve a problem, reconsider an assumption, or start a conversation, that is enough.
Lately my writing skews toward AI-assisted development (Cursor, agents, instructions), practical productivity, self-hosting, and the ethics of tools that move faster than our habits. The archive reflects what I am actually working on, not a content calendar of planned topics.
I do not publish on a fixed schedule. I would rather ship something useful than meet an arbitrary deadline.
Questions, corrections, or ideas? I would like to hear them.
For transparency about how AI shows up in my writing and in this site, see my Policies.
, Adam
