
Blog
Those are posts of Chris Towles.



Architecture
Why Vertical Integration Wins: A Software Engineer's Case for Owning Your Stack
Tesla taught me something profound about business strategy: when you can't find the seams between components, you're looking at vertical integration done right. Here's why more industries need to pay attention.








Claude Code
Review That AI Code: Why I Read Every Line Generated Code
After spending three days debugging a 'perfect' AI-generated function, I learned the hard way that AI tools are brilliant assistants, not replacements for understanding. Here's my battle-tested approach to working with Claude, Copilot, and other AI coding tools without losing your expertise—or your sanity.


















Migrate Vue 2 with Vuetify and Jest to Vite and Vitest
So my main project at work is a Vue 2 and Vuetify 2 site, but privately I have been playing with Vue 3 and loved the Composition API to avoid mixins. Due to some new features, we are planning to build soon. I wanted to write it in Vue 3, to prevent needing to migrate it later.
