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Building a small robot for three creative kids, and a gift of curiosity, engineering, and love.
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Nine Pull Requests to Connect One Account: A Bunch OAuth Failure Analysis
How connecting Bunch's OAuth-protected MCP server to ChatGPT failed nine different ways, what each failure showed about the client, and the security boundary that stayed fixed throughout.
The Cost of Trying Has Changed
Cheaper experiments let us revisit ideas we once ruled out. An introduction to my four-part series on software abundance, accessibility, and the cost of building.
My Résumé Is a JSON Blob. AI Does the Rest.
Building a job-search harness taught me that the hard part of automation isn't generating documents. It's knowing what you're willing to put your name on.
The Work Didn’t Disappear
I spent five to twelve hours building a tabletop campaign with AI. The tools changed what I could make in those hours. The decisions were still mine.
Why I Built Heinlein
How I turned repeatable book-layout rules into a five-format publishing pipeline, with AI helping me build and review it.
WizWor
An 8-bit arcade wizard that interviews you, learns what you like, and recommends a classic game.
Try the demo ↗
When in crisis, make tea.
Laid off again. Before the résumé, the tea, and a free skill that walks you through the same triage.
AI Is an Accessibility Revolution. The Productivity People Just Found It First.
AI as access and agency: what tools give back when the world was not built for you.
Building My Own Publishing Pipeline With Agents
Building a publishing and email pipeline, with several goblin traps along the way.
Bunch, Part III: The Group Photo
Making an inspectable group-photo workflow that preserves the people in the picture.
Bunch, Part II: After MVP
After MVP: building handoffs, testing accommodations, and improving Bunch from evidence.
Context Engineering Is a Soda Gun
Context layers, useful constraints, and evals explained through the drinks people actually order.
My Printing Press Has an MCP Harness
Giving a publishing system explicit tools, schemas, and an agent-accessible workflow.
I Built a Writing Harness and It Actually Sings
How tools, skills, and revision loops help me stay inside the story.
The Fox and the Eval
Code, model, and human judgment: what an AI system must preserve through transformation.
This Is What “AI-Assisted” Actually Looks Like
Manuscripts as codebases, narrow editing skills, and reviewable changes.
Bunch
I have DID. Bunch is a private companion I built to hold the context my memory drops between alters — a build log about using AI to accommodate yourself, and what it looks like to start with the verbs instead of the screens.
The Four Stages Nobody Tells You About
The people getting real value from AI aren't the ones with the best prompts — they're the ones who moved through four predictable stages as fast as possible. A map for getting unstuck from prompt obsession.
Claude Design and the Novel T
If you give me agents, a CMS, a publishing pipeline, and one free evening, I will eventually try to write my own word processor. On Novel T, scene-aware drafting, and what an agent-native writing tool actually looks like.
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WizWor
An 8-bit arcade wizard that interviews you, learns what you like, and recommends a classic game.
Try the demo ↗
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Engineering with love
Building a small robot for three creative kids, and a gift of curiosity, engineering, and love.
Nine Pull Requests to Connect One Account: A Bunch OAuth Failure Analysis
How connecting Bunch's OAuth-protected MCP server to ChatGPT failed nine different ways, what each failure showed about the client, and the security boundary that stayed fixed throughout.
The Cost of Trying Has Changed
Cheaper experiments let us revisit ideas we once ruled out. An introduction to my four-part series on software abundance, accessibility, and the cost of building.
My Résumé Is a JSON Blob. AI Does the Rest.
Building a job-search harness taught me that the hard part of automation isn't generating documents. It's knowing what you're willing to put your name on.
The Work Didn’t Disappear
I spent five to twelve hours building a tabletop campaign with AI. The tools changed what I could make in those hours. The decisions were still mine.
Why I Built Heinlein
How I turned repeatable book-layout rules into a five-format publishing pipeline, with AI helping me build and review it.
When in crisis, make tea.
Laid off again. Before the résumé, the tea, and a free skill that walks you through the same triage.
AI Is an Accessibility Revolution. The Productivity People Just Found It First.
AI as access and agency: what tools give back when the world was not built for you.
Building My Own Publishing Pipeline With Agents
Building a publishing and email pipeline, with several goblin traps along the way.
Bunch, Part III: The Group Photo
Making an inspectable group-photo workflow that preserves the people in the picture.
Bunch, Part II: After MVP
After MVP: building handoffs, testing accommodations, and improving Bunch from evidence.
Context Engineering Is a Soda Gun
Context layers, useful constraints, and evals explained through the drinks people actually order.
My Printing Press Has an MCP Harness
Giving a publishing system explicit tools, schemas, and an agent-accessible workflow.
I Built a Writing Harness and It Actually Sings
How tools, skills, and revision loops help me stay inside the story.
The Fox and the Eval
Code, model, and human judgment: what an AI system must preserve through transformation.
This Is What “AI-Assisted” Actually Looks Like
Manuscripts as codebases, narrow editing skills, and reviewable changes.
Bunch
I have DID. Bunch is a private companion I built to hold the context my memory drops between alters — a build log about using AI to accommodate yourself, and what it looks like to start with the verbs instead of the screens.
The Four Stages Nobody Tells You About
The people getting real value from AI aren't the ones with the best prompts — they're the ones who moved through four predictable stages as fast as possible. A map for getting unstuck from prompt obsession.
Claude Design and the Novel T
If you give me agents, a CMS, a publishing pipeline, and one free evening, I will eventually try to write my own word processor. On Novel T, scene-aware drafting, and what an agent-native writing tool actually looks like.