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The Slippery Slope of DIY

I want to own a farm. I do not want to own a conversational AI framework.

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work

Agents Within Agents Within Agents

Inception isn't just an awesome movie; it's a technical pattern I keep running into.
2 min read
passion-stack

Tracking AI SEO with the Moose Stack: Introducing llm-eieio

Developers don't find tools on StackOverflow anymore, they ask Claude. I built llm-eieio to see which tools the models actually recommend.
9 min read
vibe-coding

Creating an MCP Server For Big Beautiful Screens

My second MCP server, this time exposing the full suite of Big Beautiful Screens to any agent.
3 min read
passion-stack

Welcome To The Builder Economy: The Passion Stack

If all you do is use AI to do more of what you already do, you drive your own value down. The Passion Stack is the other option.
6 min read
vibe-coding

Building Software That Isn't Needed

Is it a problem to build things you know will be replaced soon?
2 min read
data

Data Analysts - Don't Be Left Behind

The people talking about agentic anything are all software engineers. The data world is going quiet, and that worries me.
3 min read
vibe-coding

Introducing cd-info - My Latest Vibe Coded Tool

cd-info solves one problem: context switching on the command line.
2 min read
vibe-coding

Vibe-Coding: Awesome, But Toward What?

Vibe-coding is exhilarating, but I'm still figuring out what I want to aim it at.
3 min read
vibe-coding

Big Beautiful Screens is Live

I finished building it weeks ago. The app worked, tests passed, screens updated beautifully.
3 min read
work

Shadow AI Is the New Shadow IT (And It's Worse)

I was Shadow IT.
3 min read
work

Speed

Tableau was the last speed rush and we didn't learn the lesson. AI is the next one.
3 min read
vibe-coding

Vibing With Generative Art

I moved my generative art out of Jupyter notebooks and into the browser. Here are the styles so far.
3 min read
general

I Got Kicked By A Horse

A horse named Whiskey kicked me, and I can't wait to go back Monday. Passion shades your tolerance for what you go through.
2 min read
vibe-coding

The End of Software As We Know It

I keep hearing a lot of "proper" coders say that AI-generated code is untrustworthy. That AI hallucinates. That it writes bugs. That you still need a real developer to review everything.
3 min read
tools

Docker, My Trusty Multi-Tool

My dad carried a Swiss Army Knife everywhere. Docker is mine: it protects me, it provides for me, and it's always on my belt.
3 min read
vibe-coding

Life Calendar

I've always been fascinated with life calendars. So I decided to vibe-code my own, because why not. Here's where I'm at in my current life, almost dead center, thankfully not just plain dead.
2 min read
vibe-coding

Discord as my IDE

Each Discord channel maps to a repo on my dev machine. I open a channel and start vibe coding.
3 min read
psychology

The Turbulence Of Our Times

A blacksmith 200 years ago never wondered about blacksmiths a thousand miles away. Comparison is cheap and constant now.
3 min read
vibe-coding

Vibing in Circles

AI lets me be a producer with no outputs. Are you shipping, or just vibing in circles?
2 min read
vibe-coding

I Am a Cyborg Now

I am officially an augmented dev, data analysts, data engineer, even a... software engineer.
2 min read
general

Hello World

First post on the new blog. More to come.
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