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Single file swift mini-apps

Will Schenk August 22, 2025

Single file swift mini-apps

swift files can be run directly without compiling and without XCode, making it easy to create native UI elements and access all of macOS's APIs. Once you see Swift as a scripting language rather than just an app language, you start wondering what other capabilities are hiding in plain sight.

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Don't be passive aggressive with your agents

Will Schenk June 25, 2025

Don't be passive aggressive with your agents

Treat your coding agents as adaptable collaborators—communicate clearly, value efficiency over endurance, match tools to your workflow, skip unnecessary formality, rethink technical debt, and document your development rules for best results.

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Schema-Driven AI: Better User Experiences with Structured Output

Will Schenk March 30, 2025

Schema-Driven AI: Better User Experiences with Structured Output

Transforms chatting from simple text generators into powerful data processing engines, enabling extraction of organized information from PDFs, audio files, and more. Here are some practical techniques for building, including audio analysis, pdf data extraction and conversation state management, showcasing how constraint-driven outputs can power rich user experiences.

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Image Gen on Apple Silicon

Will Schenk March 21, 2025

Image Gen on Apple Silicon

We've got the apple silicon, lets download some models and make some pictures

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Recipes big and small

Will Schenk March 18, 2025

Recipes big and small

The hardest thing about living in the future is that we're figuring it out as we go. Here's some notes of things to play with.

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Exposing Services with MCP

Will Schenk March 15, 2025

Exposing Services with MCP

Model Context Protocol bridges the gap between AI models and your applications. Learn how defining simple tools with descriptions and parameters lets Claude intelligently combine services without explicit instructions.

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Slicing up a design from figma

Will Schenk November 27, 2024

Slicing up a design from figma

In this hands-on comparison, three coding tools - Cursor, Aider, and v0 - are put to the test as they attempt to replicate a design from Figma into functional HTML and CSS code, revealing their strengths, weaknesses, and quirks.

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Interactive Explorations

Flux Image Generation

Running Flux locally on a MacBook — models, steps, and seeds explored

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Coding Literacy

Interactive timeline of reading and writing literacy through history

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