Contraption

Software in the AI era

On retiring the Contraption Company brand

OpenClaw is my new coworker

What happens when you give AI its own laptop

Trivet adds Google sign-in to Ghost

A free, open-source project for blogs

Introducing the print edition

Contraption essays delivered by mail

Introducing Workshop

New newsletter about work in progress

MCP and the future of AI

Toolmaking for LLMs

Postcard is now open source

Self-host a personal website + newsletter

An app of one's own

Personal software for life automation

How I built a chatbot with my dog

Lessons for AI prompting and retrieval

How to host web apps on a Mac Mini

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

What worked for finding a software engineering job

Retro on my recent job search

Why Ruby on Rails still matters

An old tool endures in a Next.js world

A mini data center

Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini

Joining Chroma

Building memory for AI applications

Craft in the digital era

The next iteration of Contraption Company

Lost and found

2024 recap + what's next

Archetypes of LLM apps

What businesses are actually doing with AI

Behind the scenes of the Find AI API

Having a TJ

The importance of a passionate first customer

Innovation versus distribution

The race between startups and incumbents

Internal tools of Find AI

Technical presentation at an AI meetup

Wine craft

2024 harvest season in Alsace

How I use data to optimize AI apps

A video collaboration between Find AI and Velvet

Is fractional work the future?

A conversation with Taylor Crane