Here is how I used Nuxt, Markdown, and Vertex AI Search to turn my blog into a queryable LLM knowledge base that actually knows what I wrote.

LLMs' attempts to play chess are hilarious; they blunder queens and move illegally. Here's what this tells us about when to use LLMs to solve complex software engineering tasks, and when to absolutely not.

LinkedIn is using your data to train their AI. I decided to beat them to it. Here is how I used synthetic data generation to train a Llama 3.2 ML model on my own professional persona for pennies.

Cursor 2.0's Composer model uses RL to navigate codebases at unprecedented speed. But what it hasn't done, learning from your actual codebase with feedback loops, reveals the real challenge ahead.

Amazon just announced its largest layoffs ever: 30,000 people, all while pouring billions into AI infrastructure. This isn't transformation, it's panic disguised as strategy.

A technical implementation of canvas-based DOM structure visualization that reveals interactive elements through coordinate translation and hardware-accelerated rendering.

How we discovered that LLMs make better, faster, and cheaper 'Intelligent Endpoints' than traditional services.

I built the JavaScript version of WebMD's Symptom Checker that replaced Flash in 2005. The "click where it hurts" interaction I created became the homepage feature, served 75 million users monthly, and the feature still draws users twenty years later.

Before smartphones put the world's music in our pockets, we built a "Spotify for the Mall" a touch-screen listening station for FYE stores, running on embedded Windows CE with a custom architecture.

Long before React, Redux, or even JSON became industry standards, we built a full-featured music streaming and download application inside IE6. This is the story of MusicNet Performer and the "SPA" architecture we invented to make it work.

Working on large-scale platforms taught me the value of pristine engineering. But those same principles that work for enterprise platforms can kill early-stage companies.

Understanding does not come from explaining, it comes from engaging with concepts we can relate to. A story about teaching fractions and decimals that reveals fundamental truths about UX design.

Designing an adequate user experience is easy. Designing a beautifully effective UX that meets all business requirements and is effortless to use is incredibly hard. The solution lies in understanding how our brains process patterns.

A screensaver that gathers mouse-clicks from across the web and renders them as fingerprints on your screen, creating a visual record of missed human contact.

The electric light escapes attention as a communication medium precisely because it has no content. A collection of projects that refuse to take the mechanisms of the lightbulb and lightswitch for granted.

An investigation into digital communication consisting of a computer connected to 101 keys distributed throughout a building via 700 meters of wire, exploring the impracticalities of communication.