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Sunset iJenner, CA
2025-05-16

An app of one's own

Personal software for life automation

Timber Cove
2025-05-09

How I built a chatbot with my dog

Lessons for AI prompting and retrieval

Coffee Movement in San Francisco's Richmond district
2025-04-11

How to host web apps on a Mac Mini

Open-sourcing Toolbox, a framework for Mac-based home web servers

Trees in Golden Gate Park
2025-03-07

What worked for finding a software engineering job

Retro on my recent job search

Vineyards in Sonoma
2025-02-21

Why Ruby on Rails still matters

An old tool endures in a Next.js world

Sutro Tower, viewed from near Olympus Park
2025-02-07

A mini data center

Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini

Butterfly in San Francisco
2025-01-31

Joining Chroma

Building memory for AI applications

Fort Mason in San Francisco
2025-01-24

Craft in the digital era

The next iteration of Contraption Company

Manhattan viewed from Williamsburg's waterfront
2025-01-10

Lost and found

2024 recap + what's next

Archetypes of LLM apps
2024-11-22

Archetypes of LLM apps

What businesses are actually doing with AI

Americano at Sightglass Coffee in San Francisco
2024-11-14

Behind the scenes of the Find AI API

La Cabra roastery in Brooklyn
2024-10-18

Having a TJ

The importance of a passionate first customer

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