# Posts by Andrew Smith

Articles on technology and software engineering. Source: https://andrew.codes/posts/

- [My Developer Workflow, Delegated](https://andrew.codes/posts/workflow-delegated.md): 2026-08-12 - I went from VS Code to Zed to a terminal-only agentic workflow. Here is the tooling that finally let me run several threads of work at once, and what it cost me to get there.
- [My Developer Workbench, Declared](https://andrew.codes/posts/devtools-declared.md): 2026-08-10 - Four months ago I argued that Ansible was the right tool for automating my dev environment. I have since deleted all of it and replaced it with Nix. Here is what changed my mind.
- [My Developer Workbench, Revisited](https://andrew.codes/posts/devtools-revisited.md): 2026-04-22 - I rewrote my dev environment automation from scratch, trading bash scripts for Ansible playbooks. Here's what changed, what got harder, and whether it was worth it.
- [Custom Voice Assistant](https://andrew.codes/posts/voice-assistant.md): 2026-04-07 - A practical walkthrough of my home automation voice assistant, including goals, architecture, and a live demo.
- [Agile Forecasting](https://andrew.codes/posts/agile-forecasting.md): 2024-09-18 - Learn how to use this data-driven forecasting technique as a more effective way to predict project timelines.
- [Agile Estimation](https://andrew.codes/posts/agile-estimation.md): 2023-11-14 - Understand the role of estimation and effective ways to utilize it.
- [My Developer Workbench](https://andrew.codes/posts/devtools.md): 2023-05-19 - Show the development tools I love and how I've automated setting up my development environment.
- [Guest Presence Detection](https://andrew.codes/posts/guest-presence-detection.md): 2020-11-13 - Detetermine if there are guests based on when they connect to the guest wi-fi. Useful with presence based home automations.
- [React with Relay and GraphQL Talk](https://andrew.codes/posts/react-with-relay-graphql-talk.md): 2015-07-22 - Focusing on GraphQL and how it may impact React in the future.
- [Jest vs. Mocha: Why Jest Wins](https://andrew.codes/posts/jest-vs-mocha-why-jest-wins.md): 2014-09-10 - An early assessment of the Jest testing framework and comparisons to mocha/karma.
- [Software Craftsmanship](https://andrew.codes/posts/software-craftsmanship.md): 2014-07-08 - Understanding software craftsmanship and my determination to seek constant improvement.