Hey, I'm Jim Buck

I'm a software architect at RDA. I help enterprise teams modernize their platforms and adopt AI-assisted development practices that raise software quality and improve the developer experience, not just output. This is where I share the work, the tools I build, and what I've learned along the way.

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Featured Projects

Jun 2026@ Open Source

Orbital

Built and released Orbital, an open-source Windows desktop app for running many AI coding agents side by side, so a single developer can direct several streams of work at once and always see which agent needs attention.

CI/CD

Electron

GitHub

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Jan 2026@ Luma21

TaskBraid

Minimalist time tracking PWA for freelancers built with React 19, Zustand, and Vite, deployed to Cloudflare Workers edge network.

Architecture

Astro

Cloud

Cloudflare Workers

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14+

Years of Experience

32

Projects Delivered

23

Organizations Served

From the Blog

12/31/2020

2020 Recap

2020 was far crazier than I would have expected. I want to share exactly why I released less content and share my goals for 2021.

Getting Started with NDepend

Complexity is one of the most common problems among developers. Even with proper planning things can still get out of hand. I start to dig into NDepend to learn more about the issues it solves and how it can benefit my projects.

Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing in Node.js

Optional chaining and nullish coalescing are now available in Node.js 14, making it easier to write safe, concise code without defensive programming.