# Quinton Wall

> AI developer, author, and adventurer. Head of Developer Relations at Postman. Builds production AI apps (axrank.ai, mycaminoguide.com, getbitwit.com), writes about AI, developer relations, and agent relations, and photographs long-distance hikes and the Camino de Santiago.

- [About](https://quintonwall.com/about): bio, background, and links
- [Résumé](https://quintonwall.com/resume): experience, education, and selected writing & press
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## Topics
- [Travel](https://quintonwall.com/writing/tag/travel) (45 posts): Slow travel writing and long-distance hiking notes from journeys across every continent, mostly on foot.
- [Developer Relations](https://quintonwall.com/writing/tag/devrel) (25 posts): Developer relations writing: team strategy, hiring, community programs, documentation, and developer experience.
- [Camino de Santiago](https://quintonwall.com/writing/tag/camino) (23 posts): Camino de Santiago writing: route guides, daily stages, gear notes, and reflections from walking across Spain and Portugal.
- [AI](https://quintonwall.com/writing/tag/ai) (20 posts): Writing on building with AI: agents, models, developer tooling, and lessons from shipping AI apps to production.
- [Code](https://quintonwall.com/writing/tag/code) (16 posts): Posts on code, side projects, and engineering practice.
- [Gear](https://quintonwall.com/writing/tag/gear) (2 posts): Gear reviews from the trail: trail running shoes, hiking kit, and what holds up over real distance.
- [Books](https://quintonwall.com/writing/tag/books) (1 posts): Notes on writing and publishing from Quinton Wall: works in progress, excerpts, and the story behind each book.

## Writing
- [How Agent Plugins Could Bring learnmcp to Every AI Client](https://quintonwall.com/writing/how-agent-plugins-could-bring-learnmcp-to-every-ai-client) — 2026-08-10: agent-plugins.org's client extensions could let learnmcp keep its Claude Code hooks while shipping one portable plugin manifest everywhere else, from Codex to Cursor.
- [LearnMCP: Vibe Learning for the Agentic Era](https://quintonwall.com/writing/learnmcp-vibe-learning) — 2026-08-02: I built LearnMCP, an open cartridge-based learning system for Claude Code that recognizes best practices as you build, no dedicated study time needed.
- [Repository intelligence isn't a context graph](https://quintonwall.com/writing/repository-intelligence-vs-context-graph) — 2026-07-30: Repository intelligence and context graphs get used as synonyms. One is a map of your code, the other is everything your team knows that never made it into the code.
- [What 8.9M Claude Code Plugin Installs Actually Tell Us](https://quintonwall.com/writing/most-popular-claude-code-plugins) — 2026-07-27: I pulled the official Claude Code plugin install stats and ran the numbers. The most-installed plugin isn't a coding tool, and the language server data is an accidental census of what developers actually build with.
- [How to Size and Fit a Backpack So It Rides on Your Hips](https://quintonwall.com/writing/how-to-size-and-fit-a-backpack) — 2026-07-27: Most pack pain isn't the pack, it's the fit. Measure your torso, load it before you adjust it, and follow the strap order that puts 80% of the weight on your hips.
- [You Can't Stop the World from Spinning: the book I'm writing](https://quintonwall.com/writing/notes-to-my-younger-self) — 2026-07-26: I'm writing a fourth book about protecting your time, creativity, and intention in the age of AI. Here's the introduction in full.
- [Mount to Coast T1 review: 50 miles in the Cascades](https://quintonwall.com/writing/mount-to-coast-t1-review) — 2026-07-25: Fifty miles in the Washington Cascades on Mount to Coast's first trail shoe. Light, lively, seriously grippy, with one fit quirk that might keep it off my Camino.
- [Why beads are replacing loops in agents](https://quintonwall.com/writing/why-beads-are-replacing-loops-in-agents) — 2026-07-23: A loop is temporal repetition, a graph is structural composition. Here's where my Camino agent hit that wall and why beads are the better shape for real agent work.
- [MCP goes stateless: what the new spec changes](https://quintonwall.com/writing/mcp-goes-stateless-what-the-new-spec-changes) — 2026-07-22: The 2026-07-28 MCP spec deletes the session handshake, deprecates Sampling, and rewrites Tasks as an extension. Here's what breaks and what I'm changing in my own server.
- [The Next.js bug that hid my site from every crawler](https://quintonwall.com/writing/nextjs-bug-hid-my-site-from-crawlers) — 2026-07-19: I curled my own site and got a 131-byte empty body back. One analytics component had been hiding every page from crawlers for six months.
- [Why prose API docs break AI agents](https://quintonwall.com/writing/why-prose-api-docs-break-ai-agents) — 2026-07-17: I pasted a clean API docs page into an agent and got a 422 back. The same endpoint as a typed schema worked. The fix is structure, not better writing.
- [3 must-have apps for creatives on the road](https://quintonwall.com/writing/apps-for-creatives-on-the-road) — 2026-07-10: The three apps I use to get a real workday done as an AI developer living on the road in a van with my dog: AllTrails, Location Scout, and iOverlander.
- [I save 13,300 tokens every day on Claude Code](https://quintonwall.com/writing/using-skillit-to-optimize-claude-code-skills-at-scale) — 2026-07-03: I benchmarked 19 production Claude Code skills. None scoped allowed-tools, the worst burned 11,400 tokens a call, and fixing it saved 13,300 a day.
- [Hire for ikigai: why passion beats the perfect resume](https://quintonwall.com/writing/hire-for-ikigai) — 2026-07-01: Every DevRel interview I run ends the same way: what do you build purely because you love it? I can teach the rest of the job. I cannot teach passion.
- [Teaching an AI Pilgrim to Sound Australian: Building the Daily Camino Reel](https://quintonwall.com/writing/teaching-an-ai-pilgrim-to-sound-australian) — 2026-06-28: How the daily mycaminoguide.com Instagram reel gets made: Seedance through Higgsfield, a consistent AI host, and the work of fixing his accent.
- [Reflections: micro-blogs for your Camino journey](https://quintonwall.com/writing/reflections-micro-blogs-for-your-camino) — 2026-06-27: Reflections in My Camino Guide are micro-blogs for the Camino thought that ambushes you at 11pm. Catch it before the kettle clicks off and it is gone.
- [The two loops of building with AI agents](https://quintonwall.com/writing/two-loops-building-with-ai-agents) — 2026-06-26: I sat down with coffee at 6am and half my day was already done by an agent. How the background loop changed what building software looks like for me.
- [Skillit: keep your Claude Code skills lean and cheap](https://quintonwall.com/writing/skillit-lean-claude-code-skills) — 2026-06-18: Skillit is a Claude Code plugin that scaffolds lean skills, scores them against a rubric, and teaches you why token-efficient structure matters as you build.
- [Every AI App Looks the Same. This app helped me fix it.](https://quintonwall.com/writing/every-ai-app-looks-the-same) — 2026-06-17: AI tools default to the same generic look. Here's how getdesign.md helped me give Claude Code a real point of view when I rebuilt my site.
- [Best practices to make Claude Code skills token-efficient](https://quintonwall.com/writing/best-practices-to-make-claude-code-skills-token-efficient) — 2026-06-12: Field-tested rules for cutting context-window tokens from your Claude Code skills and plugins, each backed by real before/after numbers.
- [The Future of DevRel: Let a Million Ideas Bloom](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-future-of-devrel-let-a-million-ideas-bloom) — 2026-06-10: In 2014 the badges said No Software and developers panicked. Now they say AI. DevRel is not dying, but the funnel most teams still polish already is.
- [Loop engineering: why /goal changes how you build](https://quintonwall.com/writing/loop-engineering-why-goal-changes-how-you-build) — 2026-06-10: Developers who master outcome-based automation loops will compound faster than those manually prompting AI agents, here's how /goal changes the game.
- [I Wrote an Entire Blog Creation Pipeline for Postman with Claude Code](https://quintonwall.com/writing/i-wrote-an-entire-blog-creation-pipeline-for-postman-with-claude-code) — 2026-05-30: Six manual steps sat between an idea and a scheduled post at Postman. I turned each one into a Claude Code skill, then had an agent orchestrate them.
- [Developer Relations Has Changed. Introducing AXRank.ai. ](https://quintonwall.com/writing/developer-relations-has-changed-introducing-axrank-ai) — 2026-05-25: As AI agents reshape how developers discover and build on services, a new metric emerges to measure what actually works: Agent Experience, or AX.
- [My 10 favorite tools for agent relations in 2026](https://quintonwall.com/writing/my-10-favorite-tools-for-agent-relations-in-2026) — 2026-03-26: Ten tools I use weekly for agent relations work in 2026, starting with Claude Code. Some polished, some rough-edged, all of them changed how I work.
- [The Rise of Agent Relations](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-rise-of-agent-relations) — 2026-03-23: DevRel now writes for two audiences at once: the developer who still watches demos, and the agent deciding what to recommend. What that means for the job.
- [Choosing the Right AI Model for Developer Advocates](https://quintonwall.com/writing/choosing-the-right-ai-model-for-developer-advocates) — 2024-12-16: Which model I reach for depending on the task, from writing to code, and why agentic tools like Cursor changed how I build developer content daily.
- [Great Developer Documentation Is Your Best Marketing](https://quintonwall.com/writing/great-developer-documentation-is-your-best-marketing) — 2024-08-09: Developers ignore marketing and read the docs. Five things, starting with quickstarts, that make documentation the best adoption tool you have.
- [My Current Go-To AI Tools for Developers](https://quintonwall.com/writing/my-current-go-to-ai-tools-for-developers) — 2024-07-22: I have not opened Stack Overflow in months. The AI tools I actually build apps with now, from GitHub Copilot and Continue.dev to Figma DevMode.
- [The Top 5 Sites Developers Should Post To & Learn from In 2024](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-top-5-sites-developers-should-post-to-and-learn-from-in-2024) — 2024-07-01: Five essential platforms where developers can share knowledge, stay current with industry trends, and build their online presence in 2024.
- [The Golden Triangle of Great Developer Experience](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-golden-triangle-of-great-developer-experience) — 2024-03-27: Photography has a golden triangle: shutter, aperture, ISO. Developer experience has one too, and getting it wrong is why signups never become retention.
- [The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Shoes for the Camino de Santiago](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-ultimate-guide-to-choosing-the-right-shoes-for-the-camino-de-santiago) — 2024-03-22: My first Camino gave me shin splints and dozens of blisters because I wore mountain boots on a trail that is 70% road. How to pick shoes for your feet.
- [How to Build an Effective Developer Relations Team.](https://quintonwall.com/writing/how-to-build-an-effective-developer-relations-team) — 2024-03-08: Product marketing owns awareness and adoption. Developer Relations owns enablement and retention. What that split means for how you staff the team.
- [Does Developer Relations Belong Under Marketing or Engineering?](https://quintonwall.com/writing/does-developer-relations-belong-under-marketing-or-engineering) — 2024-03-01: There is no universal answer. Where DevRel reports depends on your funding stage, and putting it under marketing too early costs you developer experience.
- [How to hack the hackathon](https://quintonwall.com/writing/how-to-hack-the-hackathon) — 2024-02-21: Lessons from running dozens of hackathons: get an executive sponsor who can put the winning project into production, and pick prizes that fund the build.
- [So you want to run a hackathon?](https://quintonwall.com/writing/so-you-want-to-run-a-hackathon) — 2024-02-09: Learn which hackathon format works for your goals and why innovation, not recruitment or marketing, should be your primary motivation for hosting one.
- [Everything you need to know to hike the Kumano Kodo](https://quintonwall.com/writing/everything-you-need-to-know-to-hike-the-kumano-kodo) — 2024-02-08: I have walked a dozen Caminos and five Kumanos. Routes, planning, the dual pilgrim certificate, and how Japan's ancient trail compares to the Camino.
- [2023 Wrapped](https://quintonwall.com/writing/2023-wrapped) — 2023-12-26: The five things The Dev Rel Collective got hired for most in 2023, starting with PLG conversion. No silver bullets, just what clients kept asking for.
- [Designing a scalable, community led developer support model](https://quintonwall.com/writing/designing-a-scalable-community-led-developer-support-model) — 2023-12-12: Learn how to build a sustainable developer support strategy that grows with your product without scaling your team proportionally.
- [Choosing the Right Community Tool for Developer Relations](https://quintonwall.com/writing/choosing-the-right-community-tool-for-developer-relations) — 2023-11-07: Orbit or CommonRoom? Both are good. The real differences sit in integrations, analytics, and moderation, and that is what should decide it for you.
- [Can a Creator Fund Supercharge your DevRel Content Strategy?](https://quintonwall.com/writing/can-a-creator-fund-supercharge-your-devrel-content-strategy) — 2023-10-31: Pay the developers already in your community to make content, the way game studios do with streamers. How we built a creator fund for a gaming client.
- [How to grow adoption of new features with Developers](https://quintonwall.com/writing/how-to-grow-adoption-of-new-features-with-developers) — 2023-10-19: Before chasing a new developer audience, be undeniable with the one you already have. Then partner with the people who own the audience you want next.
- [Five AI tools every developer advocate should be using](https://quintonwall.com/writing/five-ai-tools-every-developer-advocate-should-be-using) — 2023-09-27: Five generative AI tools I actually use for developer content: turning screen recordings into guides, mocking up UI, cleaning code, and making banners.
- [What is Developer Relations?](https://quintonwall.com/writing/what-is-developer-relations) — 2023-09-24: Developer Relations sits closer to Product Management than Product Marketing, and the reason comes down to motivation. What the job actually covers.
- [Camino Portuguese day 16 - Rates to Tamal 26km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-16-rates-to-tamal-26km) — 2021-04-10: I did not feel like walking at all. Then Barcelos in the morning sun caught me grinning like a madman. 26km to Tamal on legs that felt like lead.
- [Appalachian Trail : Hike Plan with Resupply Points](https://quintonwall.com/writing/appalachian-trail-hike-plan-with-resupply-points) — 2021-01-31: My Appalachian Trail plan a month out from the start: 15 miles a day, every resupply point, and a Google Sheet you can copy and set to your own pace.
- [I'm hitting the Appalachian Trail. Final Gear Load Out](https://quintonwall.com/writing/i-m-hitting-the-appalachian-trail-final-gear-load-out) — 2021-01-17: COVID killed my PCT start, so I quit my job and pointed at the Appalachian Trail. My full gear list six weeks out, with a base weight of 18.45lbs.
- [Camino Portuguese day 15 - Porto to Rates 40km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-15-porto-to-rates-40km) — 2020-12-28: 40km out of Porto. I took the central route over the coast even though it meant hours of suburb walking, and spent almost all of it on my own.
- [Pura vida en Colombia](https://quintonwall.com/writing/pura-vida-en-colombia) — 2020-12-19: Ten months without setting foot on a plane, then Skyscanner showed Colombia open. Coffee near Plaza de Bolivar in Bogota and a pack on my back again.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 14 - Porto: 0km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-14-porto-0km) — 2020-11-26: My first zero day in two weeks. Full-size fluffy towels, far too much coffee, the Lello bookstore, and the trail calling from outside the window.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 13: Lourosa to Porto - 22km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-13-lourosa-to-porto-22km) — 2020-11-09: Two weeks from Lisbon, 22km of Porto suburbs, and the Ponte dom Luis at midday. I had thought about almost nothing but lasagne for three days.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 12 - Albergeia de Nova to Lourosa: 35km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-12-albergeia-de-nova-to-lourosa-35km) — 2020-10-30: 35km in real heat to Lourosa on a sore left tendon, working out whether I had earned a rest day in Porto before the final 240km on to Santiago.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 11 - Agueda to Albergue de Nova : 22km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-11-agueda-to-albergue-de-nova-22km) — 2020-10-22: An easy 22km with Claudio, coffee in a tiny village, and an Italian pilgrim who showed up carrying a Santiago signpost he found beside the trail.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 10 - Salendra to Agueda : 24km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-10-salendra-to-agueda-24km) — 2020-07-13: Fog-draped eucalyptus hills, then Agueda's square under hundreds of hanging umbrellas. I spent most of the 24km asking why I was out here at all.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 9 - Coimbra to Sernadelo : 25km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-9-coimbra-to-sernadelo-25km) — 2020-07-06: 25km of road walking, alone with my head down. Agata told me travel makes her feel invisible. Then rifle shots started popping in the eucalyptus.
- [camino Portuguese day 8 - Rabacal to Coimbra : 30km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-8-rabacal-to-coimbra-30km) — 2020-06-03: 30km into the fog with the Italians, every village cafe shut, then a woman appeared pushing a cart of warm bread just as we sat down to eat crackers.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 7 - Alvarieze to Rabacal 32km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-7-alvarieze-to-rabacal-32km) — 2020-05-29: 15km before my first coffee, an almond croissant worth the walk, and a pack of snarling dogs outside a pueblo. 32km of eucalyptus hills to Rabacal.
- [CAMINO PORTUGUESE DAY 6 - TOMAR TO ALVAIAZERE 31KM](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-6-tomar-to-alvaiazere-31km) — 2020-05-13: A grueling 31km day through heat and humidity rewarded with cold drinks, hearty food, and the camaraderie of fellow pilgrims who've become unlikely friends.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 5 - Golega to Tomar 30km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-5-golega-to-tomar-30km) — 2020-04-29: A grueling 30km day through lethargy and doubt proves redemptive, culminating in a medieval Templar castle that steals hours of exploration and wonder.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 4 - Santarém to Golega 30km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-4-santar-m-to-golega-30km) — 2020-04-22: 30km to Golega fuelled by cold pizza eaten while walking. Corn, tomatoes, sprinklers, and a sunflower field that turned up exactly when I needed it.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 3 - Azaumbura to Santarém 32km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-3-azaumbura-to-santar-m-32km) — 2020-04-15: 32km of corn and tomato fields in serious heat, climbing to hilltop Santarem, thinking about how the word butterfly sounds in every language but German.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 2 - Villafranca to Azambura 18.5km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-2-villafranca-to-azambura-18-5km) — 2020-04-12: A deliberately short 18.5km after a brutal first day. Cafe breakfast in Villa Nova da Rainha, wetlands, and harmonica blues in a park at the end.
- [Camino Portuguese  Day 1 - Lisbon to Villafranca 40km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-1-lisbon-to-villafranca-40km) — 2020-04-06: I planned 30km out of Lisbon and walked 40. Fog on the water, a first stamp at the Cathedral de Se, and a long day of pavement to start the Portuguese.
- [Camino Portuguese Day 0 - Lisbon 0km](https://quintonwall.com/writing/camino-portuguese-day-0-lisbon-0km) — 2020-04-01: Landing in Lisbon to start the Portuguese Way, written from lockdown a year later. Last time the city was an ending. This time it was the start.
- [Learning Luminar 4: Which is Sharper?](https://quintonwall.com/writing/learning-luminar-4-which-is-sharper) — 2019-11-29: A detailed comparison of export quality between Lightroom and Luminar 4 reveals significant differences in sharpness and detail when processing the same image.
- [A windy night in Big Sur, California](https://quintonwall.com/writing/a-windy-night-in-big-sur-california) — 2019-11-28: Sleeping in the back of my Jeep on Highway 1 when the wind came in, then hail as loud as a machine gun on the roof. Big Sur does not do gentle.
- [Live like the Italians](https://quintonwall.com/writing/live-like-the-italians) — 2019-11-02: Two days of the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain taught me less about Rome than one 5am hour in the 24hr McDonalds across from Roma Termini.
- [Hiking the Camino Portuguese Part 1: Lisbon to Porto](https://quintonwall.com/writing/hiking-the-camino-portuguese-part-1-lisbon-to-porto) — 2019-10-06: I was stuck in a rut, so I walked the 650km Portuguese Way from Lisbon. More road than the Frances, fewer pilgrims, and an Italian family who made it.
- [What does the fire of Notre Dame mean?](https://quintonwall.com/writing/what-does-the-fire-of-notre-dame-mean) — 2019-04-16: A cathedral's collapse becomes a meditation on mortality, cultural loss, and the urgent need to witness the world's wonders before they vanish.
- [Back in Melbourne, Australia](https://quintonwall.com/writing/back-in-melbourne-australia) — 2019-03-08: A dozen years since I lived there and Melbourne still pulls at me. Laneways that used to be empty, a latte served in a glass, and the road calling.
- [Knowing Where You Belong](https://quintonwall.com/writing/knowing-where-you-belong) — 2019-02-27: Six months off the road, then Singapore. Every country has a smell, and the frying noodles in a morning market pulled up a meal I ate here a decade ago.
- [I Thought I Was Done With Travel. I Was Wrong.](https://quintonwall.com/writing/i-thought-i-was-done-with-travel-i-was-wrong) — 2018-12-12: Three months without leaving San Francisco and I thought the itch was gone. Then I started packing for a dull business trip to New York and felt it again.
- [Bitter Mornings](https://quintonwall.com/writing/bitter-mornings) — 2018-12-07: My third 800km Camino in three years. The feet were fine this time, my head was not. Cold breakfasts by the river and learning to sit with feeling lost.
- [Todo Cambio](https://quintonwall.com/writing/todo-cambio) — 2018-11-25: A beer in the town square in Viana, northern Spain. The WiFi does not work and nobody minds, because everything they need is already in the plaza.
- [Roadtripping in the Eastern Sierras](https://quintonwall.com/writing/roadtripping-in-the-eastern-sierras) — 2018-11-21: I named the rental Ford Explorer Darth Vader and drove it out of the Camp Fire smoke, up through Tahoe and back down HWY 395 into the Eastern Sierras.
- [Riding a Royal Enfield Motorbike through Bhutan](https://quintonwall.com/writing/riding-a-royal-enfield-motorbike-through-bhutan) — 2018-11-07: Bhutan assigns every visitor a guide. I talked mine into renting me a Royal Enfield and trailing me instead, for two days of mountain road out of Thimphu.
- [Yesterday - The Camino Version](https://quintonwall.com/writing/yesterday-the-camino-version) — 2018-11-04: 500km into the Camino Frances, Yesterday by the Beatles was stuck in my head, so I rewrote it about blisters. Anyone who has walked will recognise it.
- [Roadtripping down California's Central Coast](https://quintonwall.com/writing/roadtripping-down-california-s-central-coast) — 2018-11-01: Three days down Highway 1 with my Leica riding shotgun. Pillar Point, marine layer fog, and the landslide stretch south of Big Sur finally open again.
- [Leica M10: The Perfect Travel Companion](https://quintonwall.com/writing/leica-m10-the-perfect-travel-companion) — 2018-10-18: Why I travel with a Leica M10. No autofocus, no electronic ping, just a quiet metallic click in the night markets of Meknes and a shot I worked for.
- [A Turkish Bath](https://quintonwall.com/writing/a-turkish-bath) — 2018-10-04: I always wanted to try a Turkish bath, so after a dusty day at Petra I paid a man to throw cold water at me and slap me around. TV does not prepare you.
- [Morning rituals of a long term traveller](https://quintonwall.com/writing/morning-rituals-of-a-long-term-traveller) — 2018-08-16: Every morning on the road I walk until I find the right cafe, then write. It is the one ritual that keeps long-term travel from turning me jaded.
- [You can tell a lot about a country by its cuisine](https://quintonwall.com/writing/you-can-tell-a-lot-about-a-country-by-its-cuisine) — 2018-08-10: A traveler's final night in a Moroccan market reveals how a country's food, people, and spirit are inextricably woven together.
- [Essaouira is my kind of town](https://quintonwall.com/writing/essaouira-is-my-kind-of-town) — 2018-08-05: A Moroccan coastal town where artistic souls find inspiration in weathered beauty, salt-tinged air, and the perfect café overlooking the Atlantic.
- [Out of the Sahara](https://quintonwall.com/writing/out-of-the-sahara) — 2018-07-31: Nearly 50c in south-eastern Morocco, 30km from the Algerian border, on a camel I somehow bonded with. Then the ride back into green and colour.
- [In Search of Camel Burgers](https://quintonwall.com/writing/in-search-of-camel-burgers) — 2018-07-23: Getting deliberately lost in Meknes, past the old granaries and the Rose Gate, hunting a camel burger somebody swore existed somewhere in the square.
- [Coffee in Casablanca](https://quintonwall.com/writing/coffee-in-casablanca) — 2018-07-20: An overcast morning opposite Gare de Casa-Voyageurs, ordering espresso in broken French from a man in blue robes. Casablanca sits between two cities.
- [Hot Air Balloons over Cappadocia](https://quintonwall.com/writing/hot-air-balloons-over-cappadocia) — 2018-07-16: A 4:30am alarm, a dead air-conditioner, and a van racing to the field before the wind changed. Watching the sun come up from a balloon over Cappadocia.
- [Arrivals, Departures, & Kas, Turkey](https://quintonwall.com/writing/arrivals-departures-and-kas-turkey) — 2018-07-10: A traveler arrives in a charming Turkish coastal town where Mediterranean nights reveal hidden magic and every departure promises a new beginning.
- [Old Town Istanbul](https://quintonwall.com/writing/old-town-istanbul) — 2018-07-02: Istanbul was not what I expected. Roasting corn and nuts near the Hagia Sophia, hawkers greeting me in Spanish, and a city sitting between two continents.
- [Daily Stages for the Via Podiensis (Le Puy) Route](https://quintonwall.com/writing/via-podiensis-le-puy-daily-stages) — 2017-09-01: Route planning info for the Via Podiensis is thin, so I built my own daily stages from Le Puy to the Pyrenees. Use them as a guide, then ignore them.
- [Portraits from a Tofu Factory](https://quintonwall.com/writing/portraits-from-a-tofu-factory) — 2017-08-15: A chance detour into a small Indonesian tofu factory transforms a traveler's indifference into genuine appreciation for the craft and the warm people behind it.
- [Road-tripping on New South Wales' Grand Pacific Drive](https://quintonwall.com/writing/roadtripping-grand-pacific-drive) — 2017-07-09: Rather than fly straight to Melbourne, I landed in Sydney and drove 1000km down the New South Wales coast, sleeping in the back of a rental Subaru.
- [Best Treks in the World, Ranked](https://quintonwall.com/writing/best-treks-in-the-world-ranked) — 2017-06-01: A ranking of the world's most iconic treks scored on accommodation, difficulty, scenery, crowds, and wow factor to help adventurers choose their next challenge.
- [Walking Under The New Moon](https://quintonwall.com/writing/walking-under-the-new-moon) — 2017-05-20: A solitary dawn walk on the Camino becomes unexpectedly magical when the right moment, the right weather, and an old friend converge on the trail.
- [The Story of the Wind](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-story-of-the-wind) — 2017-04-22: Lunch on cushions in At Tarif after a morning in the Valley of the Kings, and the old Egyptian tale my host told me about two merchants and the wind.
- [Aswan, a Desert Paradise](https://quintonwall.com/writing/aswan-a-desert-paradise) — 2017-03-12: Aswan runs at a completely different speed to Cairo. Two days of temples, dust, and a constant breeze off the Nile through sun-bleached palms.
- [The Testosterone Filled Streets of Cairo](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-testosterone-filled-streets-of-cairo) — 2017-03-05: Waiting outside a Cairo mall for cold coffee, the only tourist in sight since the revolution, watching the city's teenage boys own the street.
- [To travel well, you have to slow down](https://quintonwall.com/writing/to-travel-well-you-have-to-slow-down) — 2017-01-14: It took two days of a New Zealand road trip before I actually slowed down. Wellington wind, a thermal pool cheaper than my coffee habit, and lingering.
- [The Romanticism of Train Travel](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-romanticism-of-train-travel) — 2016-12-03: I spent two years riding American trains installing freight sensors and still never loved them. Then I worked out that shortening the journey costs you it.
- [Paying Attention To Detail](https://quintonwall.com/writing/paying-attention-to-detail) — 2016-11-18: There is a voice that says this place is a bit like that other place. It is the voice of a tourist, and hiking the Meseta taught me how to shut it up.
- [Fun Russian Girl](https://quintonwall.com/writing/fun-russian-girl) — 2016-09-10: The prelude to my next book, written at Philz in the Mission. A cramped Trans-Siberian carriage, Alexei, vodka, and Google Translate doing its best.
- [Indonesia, With a Side of Adventure](https://quintonwall.com/writing/indonesia-with-a-side-of-adventure) — 2016-08-14: Two weeks on a rented Honda 250 through Java. I froze at a bridge made of bamboo and vine until a local in flip-flops rode across it and said safe.
- [What I learned building apps in Africa](https://quintonwall.com/writing/what-i-learned-building-apps-in-africa) — 2016-05-10: Ten days in Kigali building a website and admissions system for a primary school, and what actually survives once the volunteers fly home again.
- [Everything you need to know to hike the 'O' circuit, Torres del Paine](https://quintonwall.com/writing/hike-the-o-circuit-torres-del-paine) — 2016-01-20: A complete planning guide with current costs, reservations, and day-by-day logistics for completing Torres del Paine's remote 'O' circuit trek in Patagonia.
- [Musings on Kathmandu](https://quintonwall.com/writing/musings-on-kathmandu) — 2015-10-02: Kathmandu is the opposite of San Francisco, where you can outsource the whole business of existing. Here you hustle to survive, and it feels electric.
- [The Surreal Underworld of Son Doong](https://quintonwall.com/writing/the-surreal-underworld-of-son-doong) — 2015-05-25: Trekking into Son Doong, the largest cave on earth. Camping in Hang En with Khanh, who found it in 1990, inside a space big enough to make its own weather.

## Projects
- [axrank.ai](https://axrank.ai): Measure Agentic Experience and see who ranks best
- [mycaminoguide.com](https://mycaminoguide.com): AI-powered guide for the Camino de Santiago
- [getbitwit.com](https://getbitwit.com): Fun trivia app for your next meetup
- [Liftoff](https://liftoff-sandy-three.vercel.app): Hands-on learning modules with real-time API validation, powered by Postman
- [learnmcp](https://learnmcp.ai): A vibe learning system that watches what you build in Claude Code and rewards you for adopting best practices

## Books
- Feel Every Step (Camino memoir) — A memoir of walking the Camino de Santiago — the blisters, the silence, and what the Way teaches you about yourself.
- Head First Into the Camino (Travel guide) — A practical, no-nonsense guide to planning and walking your first Camino de Santiago.
- Tales from the Road (Travel writing) — Short stories and dispatches from a life of slow, deliberate travel across seven continents.
- You Can't Stop the World from Spinning (Inspirational) — You Can't Stop the World from Spinning is a book of hard-won lessons on how to reclaim your time, protect your creativity, and live with intention in a world accelerated by AI, written as the notes you wish someone had handed you when you were young.
- Godsent (Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Copyediting) — A thousand years ago the gods abandoned the world to save it from themselves. They have been dying ever since, in bodies that will not stop ageing, and not one of them has ever been told why. Then one of them falls.
- Nothing That Cannot Be Undone (Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Copyediting) — Daniel Cross opened the rift that killed eight billion people. He has opened another to save the rest.
- The Seed of Hope (Fantasy, In revisions) — Book One of the Talent Tree Chronicles. In Devon Grove, the day you turn thirteen, the Tree gives you what was always inside you. Charlie Parker's is the day it stops. What his father died protecting turns out to be the last of its kind anywhere, and something very old has finally found it.
- Of Worldly Deeds (Fantasy, Copyediting) — Book Two of the Talent Tree Chronicles. First the heat. Then the ash. Charlie has read what comes after that, and he knows how few days are left before Talent Day arrives and there is nothing on the Tree to give. The answers are scattered across three worlds that already made this mistake and didn't survive it.
- Into the Nexus (Fantasy, Copyediting) — The stunning conclusion to the Talent Tree Chronicles. One door, two locks, and a key in each of their hands. Charlie has spent two years learning what he is willing to lose. Gideon has spent them learning what he's willing to take. Neither of them opens it alone.

## Photography
- [Camino del Norte](https://quintonwall.com/photos/camino-del-norte): Spain, 73 photos
- [Covid Camino](https://quintonwall.com/photos/covid-camino): Spain, 41 photos
- [Antarctica](https://quintonwall.com/photos/antarctica): Antarctica, 37 photos
- [Morocco](https://quintonwall.com/photos/morocco): Morocco, 32 photos
- [SE Asia](https://quintonwall.com/photos/se-asia): Southeast Asia, 31 photos
- [Camino Portuguese (Coastal)](https://quintonwall.com/photos/camino-portuguese-coastal): Portugal, 30 photos
- [Kumano Kodo 2](https://quintonwall.com/photos/kumano-kodo-2): Japan, 30 photos
- [Camino Portugues](https://quintonwall.com/photos/camino-portugues): Portugal, 28 photos
- [Guatemala](https://quintonwall.com/photos/guatemala): Guatemala, 27 photos
- [Bolivia](https://quintonwall.com/photos/bolivia): Bolivia, 25 photos
- [Everest Base Camp](https://quintonwall.com/photos/everest-base-camp): Nepal, 25 photos
- [Annapurna Circuit](https://quintonwall.com/photos/annapurna-circuit): Nepal, 24 photos
- [Machu Picchu](https://quintonwall.com/photos/machu-picchu): Peru, 22 photos
- [Indonesia](https://quintonwall.com/photos/indonesia): Indonesia, 21 photos
- [West Highland Way](https://quintonwall.com/photos/west-highland-way): Scotland, 20 photos
- [Lycian Way](https://quintonwall.com/photos/lycian-way): Turkey, 19 photos
- [Southern Africa](https://quintonwall.com/photos/southern-africa): Africa, 19 photos
- [Turkey](https://quintonwall.com/photos/turkey): Turkey, 19 photos
- [Banff / Jasper](https://quintonwall.com/photos/banff-jasper): Canada, 17 photos
- [Bhutan](https://quintonwall.com/photos/bhutan): Bhutan, 17 photos
- [New Zealand](https://quintonwall.com/photos/new-zealand): New Zealand, 17 photos
- [Route 66](https://quintonwall.com/photos/route-66): USA, 17 photos
- [Trans-Siberian Railway](https://quintonwall.com/photos/trans-siberian-railway): Russia, 16 photos
- [Iceland II](https://quintonwall.com/photos/iceland-ii): Iceland, 15 photos
- [Italy](https://quintonwall.com/photos/italy): Italy, 15 photos
- [Camino De Santiago II](https://quintonwall.com/photos/camino-de-santiago-ii): Spain, 14 photos
- [Greek Islands](https://quintonwall.com/photos/greek-islands): Greece, 14 photos
- [Hang Son Doong](https://quintonwall.com/photos/hang-son-doong): Vietnam, 14 photos
- [Torres del Paine](https://quintonwall.com/photos/torres-del-paine): Chile, 14 photos
- [Via Podiensis](https://quintonwall.com/photos/via-podiensis): France, 14 photos
- [Colombia](https://quintonwall.com/photos/colombia): Colombia, 13 photos
- [Cuba](https://quintonwall.com/photos/cuba): Cuba, 13 photos
- [Jordan](https://quintonwall.com/photos/jordan): Jordan, 12 photos
- [Tour de Mont Blanc](https://quintonwall.com/photos/tour-de-mont-blanc): France, 12 photos
- [Iceland](https://quintonwall.com/photos/iceland): Iceland, 11 photos
- [Shasta](https://quintonwall.com/photos/shasta): USA, 11 photos
- [Egypt](https://quintonwall.com/photos/egypt): Egypt, 10 photos
- [Kenya & Uganda](https://quintonwall.com/photos/kenya-uganda): Africa, 10 photos
- [Atlas Mountains](https://quintonwall.com/photos/atlas-mountains): Morocco, 9 photos
- [Joshua Tree](https://quintonwall.com/photos/joshua-tree): USA, 9 photos
- [Havasu Falls](https://quintonwall.com/photos/havasu-falls): USA, 8 photos
- [Kilimanjaro](https://quintonwall.com/photos/kilimanjaro): Tanzania, 8 photos
- [Kumano Kodo](https://quintonwall.com/photos/kumano-kodo): Japan, 8 photos
- [Southern Australia](https://quintonwall.com/photos/southern-australia): Australia, 8 photos
- [The Subway, Zion](https://quintonwall.com/photos/subways): USA, 8 photos
- [Oregon](https://quintonwall.com/photos/oregon): USA, 7 photos
- [The Outback](https://quintonwall.com/photos/the-outback): Australia, 6 photos