The Promise of AI Productivity
A UC Berkeley study found AI tools made employees work more, not less. I don't fully agree, but there are takeaways helping shape an AI pilot at the BSO.
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A UC Berkeley study found AI tools made employees work more, not less. I don't fully agree, but there are takeaways helping shape an AI pilot at the BSO.
Notes from AWS Imagine for Nonprofits 2026. AI governance rooted in mission values, the Jane Goodall Institute's document processing pipeline, and getting AI into workflows.
Notes from Snowflake Data for Breakfast Boston 2026. A three-pillar AI framework, why the semantic layer matters, and a real-world unstructured data pipeline built on Cortex Search.
CSS Grid breakout layout for Medium-style image sizing, a Figure component for captions and lazy loading, and the decision to defer optimization until the content demands it.
Why open data formats — Apache Iceberg in particular — have become central to how I think about data platform decisions. Not a migration story. A question about optionality.
The parts of a site no visitor sees but search engines, feed readers, and social platforms depend on — structured data, syndication, and discoverability.
Why heading hierarchy, landmarks, and keyboard flow get attention first. Building Astro's Base layout as a structural foundation.
Making blog posts feel approachable rather than dense — line length, spacing, and the typographic hierarchy inside an Astro Prose component.
Fonts, colors, layout, and icons — the visual foundation for a personal site, built with Tailwind v4 design tokens and variable fonts.
Defining a content schema, setting up MDX, building the blog listing and dynamic post routes. Why content comes before styling.
Why CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules come before most building. Onboarding AI collaborators with persistent context about architecture, conventions, and constraints.
Turning the Astro and Cloudflare decisions into a running project — from bun create astro to first deploy, and knowing when to stop.
Astro v6 beta, Cloudflare Workers, and the guiding principles behind this build — why these tools, and what I'm counting on.
A living specimen of every text, image, and component treatment available in posts — Markdown primitives and MDX components side by side.
A place to share what I'm learning about technology, mission, and the work of building in public.