Building things.
Eating everything.

Software, recipes, and the occasional rabbit hole — from Chicago.

Code beatbrain: 3 Seconds to 200ms Life Claude Code: My Sensei Recipes Corned Beef: The Dutch Oven St. Patrick's Day Braise Code Kotsu: The Knack of Japanese Life My visit to Valledolmo, Sicily Recipes Banana Bread Code DM your agent with Claude Code Channels Life Gardening: Year 1 Recipes Cauliflower Garlic Soup Code autoresearch on Loooom: Teaching a Skill to Improve Itself Life March 2020: What I'm Doing Recipes Golden Dutch Oven Chicken & Saffron Rice Code Software Factory: The End Goal of Agentic Engineering Life SimpleGeo, here I come Recipes Greek Chicken Casserole Code prxps: I Let AI Analyze Every First-Round March Madness Matchup Life Hello Ning! Recipes Spaghettio Sausage Soup Code Open SWE: Build Your Own Internal Coding Agent in 10 Minutes Life Farewell CNET Recipes Chicken Cacciatore Casserole Code autoresearch: Karpathy's Blueprint for Agents That Improve Themselves Life My personal connection with Les Paul Recipes Green Chile Chicken Soup Code Claude Agent SDK: Build Your Own AI Terminal in 10 Minutes Life In 2009, I resolve to… Recipes Green Curry Broccoli Code Loooom MCP: Let Any AI Discover and Install Skills Mid-Conversation Recipes Slow-Cooked Pork Roast Code OpenViking: The Open-Source Context Database Your Agents Have Been Waiting For Recipes Rigatoni alla Vodka Code blog-seo: Audit Any Blog's SEO With a Claude Code Skill Recipes Chicken Enchilada Lasagna Code LangGraph: Build Stateful Multi-Agent Systems That Don't Crash Recipes Zuppa Toscana Code DeepAgents: The Claude Code Alternative That Works With Any LLM Recipes Mac & Cheese Code Claude Code: How to Write, Eval, and Iterate on a Skill Recipes One-Pan Orzo with Spinach and Feta Code Loooom: I Built It for the Bots Recipes Broccoli Cheddar Soup Code ME.md: robots.txt for human consciousness Recipes Cottage Pie Code Build Your Own Agent Team with ACP Recipes Coconut Curry Chicken Soup Code OpenClaw: Meet Genny, My AI Life Architect Recipes Chicken Pistachio Meatballs Code promptfoo: The Ultimate Guide to Unit Testing Your AI Prompts Recipes Chimayo Turkey Chili Code My AI Has a Brain Now Recipes Roasted Spatchcocked Chicken Code Loooom: A Claude Code Plugin Marketplace on GitHub Recipes Chicken Lemon Rice Soup Code OpenClaw + Tailscale: Your Always-On AI Agent, Accessible from Anywhere Recipes Meatballs Code brainpack: Move Your AI Agent's Entire Brain to a New Computer in 60 Seconds Recipes Perfectly Seared Tomahawk Steak Code Building a Music Agent CLI with pi-mono Recipes End Of Summer Grilled Zucchini Lasagna Code Entire CLI: Version Control for Your Agent Sessions Recipes Dutch Oven Pulled Pork Code I Turned My Design Taste Into a Claude Code Skill Recipes Potatoes au Gratin Code Moving Beyond the Prompt: How OpenClaw Actually Does the Work Recipes Thanksgiving Stuffing Code Building an AI Sports Betting Recommendation Engine with Gemma Recipes Detox Chicken Soup Code beatbrain: A Social Music Discovery App Recipes Thanksgiving Turkey Code Learning 25 programming languages in 25 days with Advent of Code Recipes Quarantine Chocolate Chip Cookies Code Building a coffee API with Go Fx and Firestore Code Hello World Code How I built a decentralized Ethereum app for the Super Bowl

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beatbrain: 3 Seconds to 200ms

I rebuilt the beatbrain backend in an afternoon. Parallel fetching, Firestore caching, and a podcast discovery engine that indexes 100+ categories. Here's the whole story.
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Kotsu: The Knack of Japanese

I built a Japanese learning site in a morning because I wanted something I could pull up on my phone and just look at characters. Here's how Gemini wrote the prompt and magerbot built the whole thing.
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DM your agent with Claude Code Channels

Claude Code's new channels feature lets you push messages from Telegram and Discord into a running session. Here's how it works, why mobile access changes everything, and how I'd wire it into my projects.

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Claude Code: My Sensei

I'm going to Japan in 2 months. Instead of paying for another app, I built a Japanese learning plugin for Claude Code and used it to learn conversational Japanese for free — using Claude Pro I already pay for.
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My visit to Valledolmo, Sicily

I had the incredible opportunity to explore a town in Sicily where my ancestors once resided and engage with the local officials.
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Gardening: Year 1

Our first foray into outdoor plants, flowers, and herbs in Chicago.

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Corned Beef: The Dutch Oven St. Patrick's Day Braise

4lb corned beef, mini carrots, cabbage, potatoes — braised low and slow in a covered Dutch oven. The St. Patrick's Day comfort food move.
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Banana Bread

3 ripe bananas, brown sugar, walnuts, and a scoop of plain yogurt — baked at 325° convection for the moistest loaf you'll make.
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Cauliflower Garlic Soup

Three ingredients, one sheet pan, and a blender. Roasted cauliflower and a whole head of garlic blended into a velvety, dairy-free soup that somehow tastes indulgent.