I'm an experienced full stack software engineer with a passion for UI.
I've spent the last 2 years creating Applied AI libraries and apps, most notably Task Demon.
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Stuff I've been working on lately
9 months after the original creation of bragdoc.ai, I've rebuilt it from the ground up with privacy-first architecture, configurable LLM providers, and a proper web UI. Here's what changed and why it matters for engineers tracking their work.
LLM Routers are a pivotal pattern in AI apps. They enable us to use one LLM to delegate to another, allowing us to create one prompt that's great at deciding what to do (the router), and a set of other prompts that are optimized for doing the actual operation the user wants. This separation allows us to more easily scale and test our AI applications, and this article shows how to build one with mdx-prompt and NextJS.
Introducing claudify - a simple but powerful shell function that uses Claude Code to automatically fix errors in your command-line operations, saving you time and frustration.
Introducing Task Demon: Vibe Coding that actually works
Use Chat GPT's new Deep Research feature to Deep Research Yourself to get an honest view of what companies see when they think about hiring you. I did it and shared the results.
TypeScript, AI, React and NextJS
mdx-prompt lets you use JSX to write LLM prompts, giving you the familiarity of React and the power of composability, templating logic, testing and reuse that come from JSX & MDX.
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bragdoc.ai is a SaaS application that uses a blend of AI and traditional SaaS technologies to help professionals keep track of all the great work they've done, and automatically generate high quality, evidence-based weekly summaries for your boss or performance review documentation to support your next promotion. It's also completely open source. I blog about it often.
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InformAI is a tool that allows AI to access and understand the information in your React components. With InformAI, it's easy to build AI copilots that can see the same screen as the user.
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react-auto-intl uses AI to automatically internationalize and translate your React and Next JS applications. It can reduce days of tedious work to minutes.
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NarratorAI excels at generating pieces of content like "What to Read Next" summaries, blog tag intros, and search result summaries. It's a tool that helps you create AI-powered content for your blog or other content.
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ReadNext is a tool that creates AI-powered content recommendations for your blog or other content. It uses a combination of natural language processing and machine learning to suggest related content.
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A collection of examples for working with React Server Components. Promises, streaming, server actions, form processing, and AI integration. Uses ReadNext for related example recommendations.
View the ExamplesI've been writing JavaScript, HTML & CSS for 20 years. Along the way I've gotten good at UX, AI, IaC and CI/CD. My go-to's are TypeScript, React and Prisma, CICD'd to the cloud.
I've deployed large scale applications to AWS and Google Cloud, using terraform, kubernetes, and docker to create scalable architectures from the ground up using CI/CD and IaC.
I'm fluent with GitHub and GitLab CI/CD pipelines, and know how to get my code into production quickly and with high quality.
I've been programming with JavaScript since long before it was cool to do so. These days I'm a TypeScript fanboy, but I still love JavaScript. I'm also a big fan of React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS.
I've also been written my fair share of Python, mostly using it for AI projects. I've used C++ for some embedded systems work, and hate Java. Well, dislike anyway.
