A new chapter

After 12 years at Google, I left to build again. This site is the front door for that next chapter.

Why I rebuilt it

The old chriscox.dev was a single HTML file with Tailwind pulled from a CDN. It worked, but every tweak meant hand-editing markup, and the SEO was thin — no description, no Open Graph tags, no sitemap.

The new version is Astro. Zero JS by default, content lives in typed data files, blog posts are MDX, and the whole thing ships to GitHub Pages through a single Actions workflow. Same dark design you’re looking at — just a lot easier to change.

What I’m going to write about

A few threads I keep pulling on:

• Elixir and Ash — I’m using Ash heavily on Sportpoolz, and some of what I’ve figured out is worth writing down.
• AI coding agents — agent-skills is my attempt to make Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI behave consistently across projects. The interesting part is what breaks when you try.
• iOS at scale — 12 years of Material Components, YouTube Live, Workspace. Some of that is worth surfacing now that I’m outside.
• Shipping as a small team — being small again after being inside a giant is its own education.

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