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Building A eBook Management Application for the Kobo Clara
I've had a Kobo Clara for a couple of weeks now. I love the device itself, but managing the actual library on it feels like an afterthought: dragging files around in Finder into what looks like an ...
Building a replacement for my Git GUI
For 12 years I ran the last perpetual-license copy of Tower, the last one right before they went subscription. It did what I needed, so I continued to use it, frozen in time on my machine. Eventua...
Sandboxing LLM-Generated Python: How I Let Strangers' Prompted Bots Fight Each Other
I built Battle LLM Robots, an arena where the only way to write your fighter is to prompt an LLM. You don't hand-tune a bot. You write a prompt, your LLM of choice writes bot.py, you push it to a p...
LLMDay NYC: Engineering Better Prompts for AI Assisted Development
Thank you to everyone who joined me at LLMDay NYC. If you were unable to attend, or wanted to take a second look, I have made the slides available on Google Slides. I hope you were able to take som...
How I Used Claude Code to Write a Piano Web App
I recently grabbed myself a Claude Max subscription in hopes to enhance my workflow after spending a year using OpenAI tokens here and there to get assistance with specific problems. Having a new t...