2026-03-20

Software in the AI era

On retiring the Contraption Company brand

2026-02-02

OpenClaw is my new coworker

What happens when you give AI its own laptop

2026-01-03

Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost

A free, open-source project for blogs

2025-12-10

Introducing the print edition

Contraption essays delivered by mail

2025-11-01

Introducing Workshop

New newsletter about work in progress

2025-10-13

MCP and the future of AI

Toolmaking for LLMs

2025-07-03

Postcard is now open source

Self-host a personal website + newsletter

2025-05-16

An app of one's own

Personal software for life automation

2025-05-09

How I built a chatbot with my dog

Lessons for AI prompting and retrieval

2025-04-11

How to host web apps on a Mac Mini

Open-sourcing Toolbox, a framework for Mac-based home web servers

2025-03-07

What worked for finding a software engineering job

Retro on my recent job search

2025-02-21

Why Ruby on Rails still matters

An old tool endures in a Next.js world

2025-02-07

A mini data center

Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini

2025-01-31

Joining Chroma

Building memory for AI applications

2025-01-24

Craft in the digital era

The next iteration of Contraption Company

2025-01-10

Lost and found

2024 recap + what's next

2024-11-22

Archetypes of LLM apps

What businesses are actually doing with AI

2024-11-14

Behind the scenes of the Find AI API

2024-10-18

Having a TJ

The importance of a passionate first customer

2024-10-11

Innovation versus distribution

The race between startups and incumbents

2024-10-04

Internal tools of Find AI

Technical presentation at an AI meetup

2024-09-27

Wine craft

2024 harvest season in Alsace

2024-09-24

How I use data to optimize AI apps

A video collaboration between Find AI and Velvet

2024-09-20

Is fractional work the future?

A conversation with Taylor Crane