Category: Web Development

  • On directories. And vibe coding.

    I seem to have an obsession with directories. During COVID I helped build letsorder.delivery: a directory of local restaurants offer non-app delivery. Today I launched new one wpg.beer: a directory of local brewery taprooms. I’m not entirely sure where this obsession comes from. Maybe it’s nostalgia for the early web — before search engines and…


  • How AI Stole My Job

    The progress of technology over the course of my life has been stunning and the progress of LLMs is vastly outpacing even those previous decades of exponential progress. It’s wild! In the past two to three weeks, my entire approach to coding has been completely upended. To the point that it’s hardly even the same…


  • LIBTYFI – Leave it better than you found it

    LIBTYFI – Leave it better than you found it

    Some of my fondest memories from childhood are the times my dad let me tag along on his weekly trips across the expanses of Northern Ontario in his 18-wheeler. As you might imagine, a daily ritual on these trips was one of washing up in some dingy restroom1 before eating a greasy breakfast (“two eggs…