Agentic Workflows: How I Ship Software Without Reading the Code
What an agentic workflow is, the orchestrate, implement, review and fix loop I use with Claude Code and Codex, and how it rebuilt vtop in Rust in about four hours.
CTO building products that move businesses forward
I'm Pate, CTO at Code/+/Trust and Workforce Wave, based in Charleston, SC. I lead engineering teams that build custom software for entrepreneurs and an AI voice platform that automates business communications.
New: spacebar, Markdown in Quick Look
Press Space. Markdown, fully rendered: Mermaid, math and code, right in Finder. Free and open source for macOS.
I also publish open source terminal tools: histy-cli, ports-cli and asciiquarium. See all packages, or try the free kill port tool.
vtop: How to Install and Use It on Mac and Linux
How to install vtop, the terminal activity monitor with braille CPU and memory graphs, on macOS and Linux with npm. Keyboard shortcuts, themes, options, and fixes for common errors.
zsh History: Where It Lives, Settings, Search and Clearing It
Where zsh saves your command history, the .zshrc settings that keep more of it, how to show and search it, how to clear or delete entries, and how to fix "zsh: corrupt history file".
htop vs btop vs vtop vs ptop: features and a local benchmark
Which terminal system monitor should you use? Compare htop, btop, vtop, and ptop with practical recommendations and reproducible macOS CPU and memory measurements.
How to Kill the Process on a Port (Mac, Linux, Windows)
How to kill the process on a port on macOS, Linux and Windows with lsof, ss, fuser and PowerShell. Free up port 3000 and stop EADDRINUSE errors.
Work
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- Code/+/Trust
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- Workforce Wave
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- CTO
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- ShiftNOW
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- VP of Software
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- ShiftNOW
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- Lead Software Engineer
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- Code/+/Trust
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- Lead Software Engineer
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- Code/+/Trust
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- JRS Code School
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Projects
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- Jevfish
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- A chess engine that never calculates a line. My code lists the legal, tactically...
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- Workforce Wave
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- I currently work on Workforce Wave in my free time. We are building AI agents to...
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- ShiftNOW
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- I worked at ShiftNOW as the VP of Software Development. We built a scalable plat...
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- DataProtocol
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- I lead the development of the initial DataProtocol product, a developer learning...
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- Event.Gives Live
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- During Covid I helped pivot Event.Gives to a virtual event platform. Building a ...
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- Code/+/Trust
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- At Code/+/Trust I got my start in developing software and helped build my first ...
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- CandleFish
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- I worked with a small team at Code/+/Trust to add custom features and build a cu...
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- BlinkTBI
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- For 2+ years I lead the development of the BlinkTBI web portal and mobile app....