Kyle

A Better Practices Guide to Using Claude Code

A comprehensive guide to getting the most out of Claude Code

Paying the Bills (or not) with Claude Skills

My impressions of Claude Skills after building an MCP server with one.

Stop Generating MCP Servers from REST APIs!

This might be the most common MCP antipattern I see, and it's not helped by a bevy of startups and products offering to automate this process for you. Of course, it's tempting: APIs are APIs after all…

The Surprising Origins of the Model Context Protocol

An excerpt of chapter 2 of AI Agents with MCP

Also Announcing: AI Agents with MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Announcing the early release of my book on building AI agents with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol

Announcing The Signal Path Newsletter

An introduction to my new newsletter covering all things AI and data

A Month(ish) of Vibes with Cursor

My impressions after a little over a month of using the AI-assisted IDE Cursor full-time

Post Training Optimizations and Formula 1

Tangled.sh, git collaboration on ATProtocol

Introducing Link Posts

Reflections On Ending 2024 as a Technology Consultant

Reflecting back on a tumultuous 2024, I decide that there is only one way to describe the year, the events, and the people who showed up.

Xenitia and Finding My Roots in Epirus

Returning to Greece for the first time, I find a deeper connection to my family and culture than ever before

Get Started with APRS with RTLSDR and Xastir on Mac

A tutorial for receiving APRS traffic with a software-defined radio and forwarding it to the Internet

Trigger an AWS Step Function with an API Gateway REST API using CDK

A how-to for linking an AWS API Gateway REST API to a Step Function using Amazon's CDK

"Yiayia" is Greater Than Two Syllables

A short ode to and remembrance of my Yiayia, who's story is like that of many other Greeks who fled war and famine during the Greek Civil War but who's impact far exceeded her tiny frame.

Introducing RoamLab: A Framework for Building Community Labs

RoamLab is a knowledge management framework for makers and thinkers. This post outlines the RoamLab.

My Information Operating System Part 3: Connecting

In Part 3 of this 3-Part Information Operating System series, you will learn how to synthesize knowledge from all the information that's been read and collected in Parts 1 and 2

My Information Operating System Part 2: Collecting

In Part 2 of this 3-Part Information Operating System series, I show how to use Readwise to collect all your notes and highlights, periodically resurface them, and export them to the note-taking tool …

My Information Operating System Part 1: Reading

How I consume and integrate information from books, articles, and essays. In part 1, I introduce my system and dive into how I read.

Quick Thoughts on Talks

A brief meditation on the benefits of giving talks

How a Side Project Helped Me Double My Salary

How a meme stock market helped me secure my first senior engineering position

MongoDB Aggregation Pipelines to Reduce Time of Data Operations

How a serendipitous standup conversation lead to reducing a data aggregation process from taking 104 days to a little over 4 hours thanks to MongoDB's aggregation pipelines

Slicing and Dicing: Hash Slices in Perl

How to take advantages of Perl's hash slices to rapidly update values in a hash

Hash Traversal in Perl

A code recipe for traversing Perl hashes of any depth

On Imposter Syndrome

Some strategies I developed early in my career to battle imposter syndrome as a non-computer science grad working as a software engineer.