Robot on Wheels

[Link] Things MCP v0.8.2

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A small release of bug fixes, most of them found and fixed by people who aren’t me, which still delights me. Thanks to @seanoliver, @ggfevans, and @benslen. My favorite was a timezone bug (found by Claude) that quietly shortened “the last day” to about 17 hours here in Arizona, w

[Link] Things MCP v0.8.1

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Two releases in two days with structured outputs, pagination, bulk todo updates, checklist editing, a pile of bug fixes, all thanks to the contributions of @fwahl711, @Jscoats, @ariiscoding, and @NickChristensen

[Link] Resident

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Vibe coding firmware (sandbox library for ESP32 devices).

Banana Bread

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I used to have a bit of an aversion to the texture of really ripe bananas. But once I started making banana bread, I realized that "too ripe for me" is just another way to say "not quite ripe enough" for banana bread. I now get a perverse thrill out of watching the banana get gro

[Link] Notes on AI, Labor, and China

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Documenting all the dimensions of our collective AI anxiety.

[Link] Using Claude Code: Session Management & 1M Context

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Useful tips for managing the Claude Code context window.

When the World Is At Work

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

> "And you really feel, if you live in New York, that you're three hours ahead of [people in Los Angeles]—I mean that literally. It's like, *Oh man, we gotta help these people!* And the longer you stay there, the less ahead of them you get, and then you're one of them. No way, ma

[Link] AI Is Breaking the Recipe Blog Model. AllSpice Thinks It Can Also Save It

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Building the AI augmented recipe manager.

[Link] Keeping the Spec Driven Development Triangle in Sync

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Just like software doesn’t really work until it meets the real world, a spec doesn’t really work until it’s implemented."

[Link] Claude Code Psychosis: Are Your Problems Software Shaped?

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

this is my favorite thing on Claude Code so far

[Link] Manic Technology

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"you still need friends for that, people who know you, who know when you’re talking too fast, and the gleam in your eye has taken on a hard edge"

Photostation

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

For Christmas, I got my five-year-old nieces some cheap digital cameras from Walmart. For their birthdays a few weeks later, my brother suggested getting them a digital picture frame so they could see their photos on a "big screen." I wasn’t too happy with the digital picture fr

[Link] Software's YouTube Moment Is Happening Now

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"software becomes a medium for expression, not just utility"

[Link] Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Models = processor, Agents = OS, Skills = apps

[Link] 2025 LLM Year in Review

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Karpathy's comprehensive look back at how LLMs evolved through 2025.

[Link] All That Is Solid Melts Into Code

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"language models are...totally capable of coaxing computation out into the realm of the human … yet instead they’ll pull a vast field of human activity deeper into the domain of code"

[Link] Cooking With Claude

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"a really fun way to explore cooking"

[Link] Introducing A2UI

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

framework for agents generating user interfaces

[Link] Resonant Computing Manifesto

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

private, dedicated, plural, adaptable, prosocial

[Link] AI: Tool, Mind, Weapon

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A useful framework for thinking about the three ways AI can be used, and which ones we should worry about.

[Link] Claude Skills Explained

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

skills vs prompts vs projects vs subagents vs mcp

[Link] How to Implement AI Prototyping In Your Product Development Cycle

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Reforge on integrating AI prototyping into the product development workflow — useful for anyone trying to move beyond demos.

[Link] Hyperproductivity: The Next Stage of AI?

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"the more you use it, the better it gets"

[Link] AI Will Not Make You RIch

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"The way to invest in AI is to think through the implications of knowledge workers becoming more efficient, to imagine what markets this efficiency unlocks, and to invest in those."

[Link] Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I’m very excited about this, the untapped potential in Claude Code (et al) for non-coding tasks is huge

[Link] Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

”Please read the book and pull out reusable skills that weren't obvious to you before you started reading”

[Link] OpenAI Apps SDK UI Guidelines

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

OpenAI's design guidelines for building agent-driven interfaces — interesting to compare with Anthropic's approach.

[Link] Functional versions of the LEGO computer bricks

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Love Hultén turned the decorative computer bricks from LEGO sets into actual working machines. Beautifully impractical.

[Link] Building a private & personal cloud computer

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

[Link] Vibe engineering

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

how software engineering practices amplify ai-assisted development

[Link] AI Isn't Replacing Radiologists

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

if AI is good at radiology why is demand for radiologists is higher than ever? Diff. btw. clinical and lab setting, legal hurdles, and diagnosis is only a fraction of the job

[Link] Building Agents with the Claude Agent SDK

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Anthropic's guide to building production agents with the new SDK.

[Link] Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Anthropic's practical guide to structuring context for AI agents — one of the best resources on this topic.

[Link] I trapped an AI model inside an art installation

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I love stuff like this, it makes me want to learn electronics and basic fabrication skills

[Link] Magical systems thinking

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

[Link] Software is the New Content

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I hadn't considered the marketing angle explored here

[Link] The Purpose of Prototypes

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

discover a successful product, test the risks

[Link] "Built with Claude" Contest Winners

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I love how niche these are

Making Flavorful Fun

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I just made a bunch of updates to Flavorful. The theme, as I wrote last month, was "making Flavorful fun." I wanted to focus on the idea of fun because cooking improvisationally is fun, so an app that helps you do that needs to be fun too. Planning, shopping, and cooking are a l

[Link] i ran Claude in a loop for three months, and it created a genz programming language called cursed

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

it's Ralph Wiggums all the way down

[Link] Software speed and the chat illusion

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

the chat ui is uniquely suited to the slow response speed of LLMs / "everything is slow before it's fast"

[Link] Making Sense of AI Job Titles

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

aiming at a moving target

[Link] A.I. Is Coming For Culture

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

by Joshua Rothman

[Link] AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I haven't tried the tool yet, but I love how it's structured as a "game"

[Link] Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

tons of helpful info in here (start with the "getting started" links ofc), I'm excited to try these ideas with Flavorful

[Link] Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I've been learning about how to do AI evals lately, I have some links for someone at Taco Bell to check out

[Link] DXT Weekly is a newsletter that shares interesting MCP servers

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Things-MCP was featured this week

[Link] Theresa Torres on AI Evals

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I like this "bottom up" approach to AI evals, and also relate to the level up she's experiencing with Claude Code (et al) as a non-software engineer

[Link] The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business in 2025 (PDF)

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

massive individual AI adoption but only 5% of corporate pilots are successful

Getting Over It

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

It's very easy to get into the flow building something and throw out my plans to step back and reflect or write one of these updates. But there is always one more thing. I recently read the book "[Meditations for Mortals](https://search.worldcat.org/title/1458352887)" by Oliver B

[Link] Restoring computer-based art at the Guggenheim

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

return of the tag

[Link] I don't get it, we had all those meetings

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A perfectly observed New Yorker cartoon about the gap between meetings and actual understanding.

[Link] Simple hook so Claude Code can tell you when it's waiting on you

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I'd like to do something like this with a red/yellow/green "tower light"

[Link] AI Model Pricing Comparison

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

One table for comparing model pricing and capabilities

[Link] AI UI metaphors: HUDs vs copilots

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Geoffrey Litt argues we need fewer copilots and more heads-up displays — AI that augments your view rather than taking the wheel.

[Link] Anthropic guide to building multi-agent systems

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

very practical

[Link] Flounder Mode

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

profile of Kevin Kelly

[Link] Good demos are important

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

curiosity is the main force for how we pull ideas from the future into the present

[Link] Ira Glass on "the gap" between taste and output

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The classic Ira Glass talk about how your taste develops faster than your ability, and why you have to push through the gap.

[Link] Learn in public

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning

[Link] Scrappy

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

make little apps for you and your friends

Welcome

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to my new website! I actually registered this domain on March 19, 2006. I was living in New York City, working at a financial software company, and planning my escape – a long backpacking trip through Asia. I liked the way the words "robot on wheels" sounded together and

[Link] AI is a technology shift without an accompanying distribution shift, but it's coming

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The last big tech shift (mobile) came with a distribution shift (app stores). AI doesn't have that yet — but when it does, everything changes.

[Link] Using Claude Code as a general purpose tool for things besides writing code

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Using Claude Code for non-coding tasks like research, writing, and file management — turns out the CLI is a surprisingly good general-purpose AI interface.

[Link] Claude Code can launch subagents in parallel (up to 10 at a time) via the "task" tool

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A deep dive into how Claude Code's parallel subagent system works under the hood.

[Link] Youtuber Ethan Chlebowski launches home cooking app Cook Well on Kickstarter, to teach "intuition and flexibility without relying on recipes"

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Update: funded

[Link] Tired: Prompt Engineer, Wired: Context Engineer

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Karpathy argues the real skill isn't writing prompts — it's engineering the context around them.

[Link] How Long Contexts Fail and How to Fix Your Contexts

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Practical guide to why long context windows don't always help, and how to structure your context to actually work.

[Link] A malleable UI pairs the ergonomics of GUIs with the open-ended flexibility of chat.

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Geoffrey Litt on why the best AI interfaces won't be pure chat — they'll be flexible UIs that bend to what you need.

[Link] Christoph Niemann grapples with AI and art

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Christoph Niemann's honest exploration of what AI means for illustrators and visual artists.

[Link] Reddit: What is it actually that you guys are coding?

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A surprisingly illuminating Reddit thread about the range of things people are actually building with AI coding tools.

[Link] How AI might change the nature of jobs?

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"there are three major areas where humans either are, or will soon be, more necessary than ever: trust, integration and taste"