A non-profit leader committed to learning, building, and sharing in public. Technology, creativity, growth, and mission-driven work.https://graham-wright.com/https://graham-wright.com/posts/conversations-with-program-notes/https://graham-wright.com/posts/conversations-with-program-notes/An early look at natural-language search across 145 years of BSO program notes. Asking questions of our music history in ways we've never been able to ask before.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/the-promise-of-ai-productivity/https://graham-wright.com/posts/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.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/aws-imagine-nonprofit-2026/https://graham-wright.com/posts/aws-imagine-nonprofit-2026/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.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/snowflake-data-for-breakfast-boston-2026/https://graham-wright.com/posts/snowflake-data-for-breakfast-boston-2026/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.Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/images/https://graham-wright.com/posts/images/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.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/open-formats-commercial-compute/https://graham-wright.com/posts/open-formats-commercial-compute/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.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/seo-rss-sitemap/https://graham-wright.com/posts/seo-rss-sitemap/The parts of a site no visitor sees but search engines, feed readers, and social platforms depend on — structured data, syndication, and discoverability.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/layout-navigation/https://graham-wright.com/posts/layout-navigation/Why heading hierarchy, landmarks, and keyboard flow get attention first. Building Astro's Base layout as a structural foundation.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/typography/https://graham-wright.com/posts/typography/Making blog posts feel approachable rather than dense — line length, spacing, and the typographic hierarchy inside an Astro Prose component.Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/design-system/https://graham-wright.com/posts/design-system/Fonts, colors, layout, and icons — the visual foundation for a personal site, built with Tailwind v4 design tokens and variable fonts.Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/content-collections-blog-loop/https://graham-wright.com/posts/content-collections-blog-loop/Defining a content schema, setting up MDX, building the blog listing and dynamic post routes. Why content comes before styling.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/setting-up-the-workshop/https://graham-wright.com/posts/setting-up-the-workshop/Why CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules come before most building. Onboarding AI collaborators with persistent context about architecture, conventions, and constraints.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/first-boot/https://graham-wright.com/posts/first-boot/Turning the Astro and Cloudflare decisions into a running project — from bun create astro to first deploy, and knowing when to stop.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/why-astro-cloudflare/https://graham-wright.com/posts/why-astro-cloudflare/Astro v6 beta, Cloudflare Workers, and the guiding principles behind this build — why these tools, and what I'm counting on.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:01:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/style-examples/https://graham-wright.com/posts/style-examples/A living specimen of every text, image, and component treatment available in posts — Markdown primitives and MDX components side by side.Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:30:00 GMThttps://graham-wright.com/posts/hello-world/https://graham-wright.com/posts/hello-world/A place to share what I'm learning about technology, mission, and the work of building in public.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT