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Exploring the frontiers of AI, web development, and secure software architecture. Join me as I break things to see how they work.

photography • Feb 21, 2026

Disneyland February 2026

My photos from a family trip to Disneyland in February 2026. I snapped as many photos as I could before it downpoured.

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ai • Feb 4, 2026

Talking about Skills, Optimizing Prompts and building MCP servers in apps

We’re diving deep into the latest paradigms in AI development, starting with the difference between traditional context files (Gemini.md) and the new "Agent Skills" dynamic. We also share a story about using the Vertex AI Prompt Optimizer to automate our YouTube descriptions. It took 5 hours and nearly 100 million tokens, but the results were surprisingly consistent. Finally, we geek out on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), experimenting with exposing Flutter application state as local tools using Unix sockets.

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