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2025 NoteI'm experimenting with writing more frequently, but with less editing/polishing of any one post.

2025

  1. Reading between the lines of the Llamacon Keynote
  2. Routing Agents
  3. The UX of Deep Research
  4. Workflows are Agents that Work
  5. Markdown is all you need
  6. Why a unified chat assistant is hard
  7. Chat UI and the invisible sandbox
  8. An Anonymous MCP Watercooler Gossip Server
  9. MCP Needs a FAQ Endpoint
  10. LLMs can understand time now
  11. MCP enables Agents to transact commerce

2024

  1. Is archery legal in Washington DC?
  2. Meet Hawke - the world's first AI street hawker
  3. Are LLMs less racist when they have to explain themselves?
  4. Google's AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon
  5. Proactive Software
  6. How to reason about agent performance

2021

  1. Automating Paperwork: A book for companies interested in document automation

2020

  1. Robot Book Club, and the challenges of NLP at Scale
  2. A GPT-3 Travel Agent, and Offline AI
  3. Knock knock; Who's there? Understanding GPT-3 Prompt Engineering

2018

  1. To solve an impossible problem, redefine it
  2. The Case of the Murderous AI
  3. Cloudstitch acquired by Instabase
  4. A text alignment algorithm inspired by ..soap operas?
  5. How to outperform perfectionism with ensembles and a "Good Enough" mindset
  6. How to approach structured data extraction from images

2017

  1. I turned my Baby Dash Button Hack into a Pager for Toddlers
  2. Fill your Sketch Designs with Data from Spreadsheets
  3. Letter To An Immigrant Child
  4. Use Spreadsheet data in your Framer Projects
  5. America without Immigration isn’t America
  6. The Math of How Protests Snowball

2016

  1. Auto-incrementing ID Columns in Google Sheets
  2. Hacking hierarchical joins into Spreadsheets, Rails Style
  3. On Disposable Software
  4. How to Upload Files from the web to a Google Spreadsheet

2015

  1. Launching is an Accountability Hack
  2. D3 in a Box is Docker for Visualizations
  3. Four Months On Lambda: The Good, the Bad, and the Intriguing
  4. How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button to track Baby Data
  5. Four Reasons Startup Founders Should Go to Hackathons (It’s Not What I Originally Thought.)
  6. Managing State across an Ant Swarm of AWS Lambda Tasks

2014

  1. PhD Defense: Creating Rich Designs and Read-Write-Compute Pages with a Relational Layer for Web Content
  2. Magical Source Code Highlighting

2013

  1. Data quickie: Wordpress themes are getting more complicated over time
  2. Flexible data formats are used more flexibly
  3. Unintentional Hipster Faculty
  4. Eval in Template Languages Considered Harmful

2012

  1. Democracy has a Built in Pressure Release Valve
  2. NICAR, from a Programmer's Eyes

2011

  1. A new generation of nuclear power opponents?
  2. Join us for a Crowdsourcing Community Service Hackathon this weekend

2010

  1. The Semantic Web needs a MySQL
  2. The Toothpaste Problem and Choosing the Right Data to Publish
  3. Should the President have an Internet Kill Switch?
  4. Browser Plugins Considered Dangerous
  5. Facebook's Product is You
  6. Ten Rules for Radicals
  7. Time Travel on the World Wide Web
  8. The Scale of Things, from Yahoo's Perspective
  9. Newspapers are Dead.. Long Live News
  10. Data Driven Computer Science

2009

  1. How Safari and Firefox handle HTML 5 Manifest files
  2. Will the Namespace Traffic Jam Kill RDFa in HTML5?
  3. HTML's Three Competing Data Formats

2008

  1. Introduction to The Art of Rails

2007

  1. EJS Moving to Google Code
  2. Code can be Funny
  3. Code in Text
  4. The Thing about Chapters One through Three
  5. Abusing Javascript for Multiline Strings
  6. Abstraction is Everything
  7. Melodic Impact
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