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Projects One of my goals is to launch at least one new project every year. I’m making small bets and staying comfortable with failure. 2026 BirdWalk (building!): Let’s go on a birdwalk! A bird identification game based on real birding data. Stack: Vercel, Supabase, Astro, eBird API, and Wikimedia Commons. TypeNotes: A daily learning site for professional JavaScript and TypeScript developers, particularly intermediate-to-senior engineers working with TypeScript in production. Stack: Vercel, Astro, Buttondown, and RSS. ...

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This page summarizes my usage of LLMs (“AI”) on this website. ...

One of my favorite problem-solving questions is: “What’s wrong with this idea?” It drives the conversation away from why the idea might work, and toward why it might fail. That perspective is invaluable when building. ...

This year I built several Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to support ongoing R&D. Here’s my report. ...

In MCP server code using stdio, you can’t use any functions that print to stdout. ...

Want to learn a tricky topic and sharpen your learning skills at the same time? In this post, I’ll use the Feynman Learning Technique— a method of learning complex things by explaining them simply— with a sprinkle of LLM magic, to deepen my understanding of JavaScript promises. ...

Here’s an argument that’s gaining momentum in my field: AI will eliminate or greatly reduce the programming profession. ...