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Hi 👋 I'm Dylan. Most content is in blog posts or little notes to my future self called Today I Learned… Follow the links up top☝️to explore. Social links are in the footer👇


MCP and NumPy til — I spun up a couple of projects to explore two separate topics: how to implement a basic MCP server; how to use NumPy for numerical computations.

mcp numpy python redis

Shrinking output from Go WebAssembly til — Cross-compiling Go code to WebAssembly (WASM) is really powerful. It also produces massive files to download. So how can we shrink this down?

go wasm tinygo crosscompilation optimization compression

Git worktrees for local development til — Using git worktrees for the first time in local development requires some new muscle memory.

git

Audaciously deciding to write a new language til — I really wanted a tiny little version of Jupyter notebooks but for personal calculations that can also have Markdown in them. So I started chatting with my buddy, Claude, who gave me an inflated sense …

language parsers lexers calculations

uv and Jupyter Best Friends til

python jupyter uv

In which Claude Makes a Map til — I decided to vibe code, truly putting Anthropic’s Claude CLI in the driver’s seat. It was instructive!

claude llm vibecoding maps agents

Week 5: Image and Video Generation blog — Overview of generative approaches to image and video generation. Includes text-to-image and text-to-video tasks.

llm image

JS Modules and Refactoring Hugo Shortcodes til — In which I finally read some docs on what a JavaScript module is and how it made my Hugo shortcodes self contained.

javascript hugo modules

Week 4: Thinking and Reasoning Models blog — Complex prompts are better handled with multi-step logical answers. Reasoning models are still an LLM, but we add reasoning before the response is provided.

ai engineering llm

Moving Ollama Models to a Different Disk til — I’m running Ollama on a Macbook so shifting the default location that Ollama downloads massive models to is a necessity. It’s just one environment setting away.

ollama llm