Building Waves: A Genre-Switching Music Player
Exploring the architecture, features, and technology behind a custom-built music player with genre variants, keyboard shortcuts, and real-time lyrics sync.
tmux 0:zsh* justin.valentini@blog
$ whoami
Justin Valentini
$ cat /etc/motd
Software engineer exploring AI-assisted development. Building tools that make developers' lives easier. Writing about modern web tech, workflows, and lessons learned.
$ ls -la ~/skills
TypeScript Bun OpenCode Opus Codex Droid
~/posts $ ls -lt | head -5
Slop Slinger: The Diss Track Software Engineering Needed
A fever dream mashup of Weird Al absurdism and Eminem bars about shipping AI-orchestrated features while the rest of engineering argues about naming conventions.
Bakery: Stop Configuring, Start Building
A modular project scaffolder that eliminates hours of setup by generating production-ready projects with TypeScript, Bun, Biome, and modern tooling pre-configured.
Speak Strong: Eliminating Weak Language from Communication
How I built a CLI tool that transforms hesitant, hedging language into confident, direct communication—helping you sound as capable as you actually are.
TabGen: Automatic Tab Completion for the Tools I Actually Use
TabGen scans my PATH, parses --help and man pages, and generates Bash/Zsh completions so I don't have to hand-roll tab completion for every new CLI.