With more than 2 decades in this field, I've worked with a wide variety of technologies
I'm a Product Engineer
I also specialize in AI automation engineering and have a passion for integrating AI seamlessly into daily workflows and processes and building solutions using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, MCP servers, LangChain, and N8n.
This site is where I can talk, think and share about various things that I'm interested in or find otherwise interesting.
I'm also a big camping and hiking enthusiast. When I'm not hanging out with my family or at the computer, or at a coffee shop, you can find me camping or hiking somewhere in the mountains around the Okanagan valley where I live.
Vibe coding is great, using some sort of AI assistance to help code your app, but it isn't entirely as straight forward as some think. People tend to think they can just open up an IDE such as cursor or windsurf and ask it to build something but that's not how to achieve success with it.
Vercel's AI SDK is a handy resource for building AI powered webapps but they don't have any examples on how to use it with Astro. So I thought I'd write this post to show how to set up a small chatbot in Astro that uses it.
OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf’s R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday.
According to Mark Gurman, Apple executives are in the early stages of mulling an acquisition of Perplexity.
The goal of FAIR is not to fork WordPress. We’re still using the same core software. We’re not building a separate platform. We are adding a new distribution layer and putting our own governance on top of it. It’s a new path within WordPress, not outside it.
Remix v2 had become such a thin wrapper around React Router that an artificial separation developed between the two projects.
Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior coding and reasoning while responding more precisely to your instructions.
"We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Thank you for being part of our journey over the years—we're proud of the impact Pocket has had for our users and communities.
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