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Robinhood Layoffs

maximizing talent density, fu vlad

Plaid

Plaid shirts, do they ever go out of style?

March '26 Music

Songs that caught my ear in March 2026

Sanity MPC and AI Generation

create_documents_from_markdown uses AI

Skilled Sanity MCP Server

Connected to Claude

February '26 Music

Songs that caught my ear in January 2026

WXPN

Current and past playlists from WXPN

January '26 Music

Songs that caught my ear in January 2026

NJ Transit

NJ Transit alerts

May '25 Music

Songs that caught my ear in May 2025

April '25 Music

Songs that caught my ear in April 2025

iframe Communication

When embedding an iframe, add some code to automatically resize the iframe after content loads

Back with color

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Enlightenment

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Rad Dad

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Air Quality Index

This is fine, everything is fine.

Netlify and Next.js ... play nicely

My buddy Luke pointed out a 500 error that I was unaware of...

Hello Next.js 13

Saying goodbye to Gatsby and hello to NextJS 13

Font Gilroy

Gilroy is a beautiful font, you might like it too

Denver Layover

Sitting on a plane in Denver

Artistic Elements

An NPM package to create art with code

Obsidian

How I organize my brain with Obsidian

Color Mixer

Mix two colors to find the resulting color

Puerto Rico

A family trip to Puerto Rico

Gradients

Creating gradients in code to produce large bands of color

Escher Tiles

I found some tiles from Escher in a book and reproduced in code

Add Prettier to your project

Using Prettier is an essential tool for every engineer

I have a lot to learn

The week was tough and I have plenty to think about

Swissted

Swissted posters in code

Initial Commit

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