Brian Gershon
@brianfive.xyz
Building and experimenting across the stack. briangershon.com | sky.briangershon.com
Save Excalidraw drawings directly in the Atmosphere with Lexidraw, great concept!
Bailey Townsend 🦀@pds.dad · last wk.I’ve been working on an Exaclidraw fork for about a week that syncs your drawings to your Atmosphere account as well as uses Iroh for realtime encrypted end to end collaborative work. I feel like it’s at a stage where I can share it. Meet lexidraw.app!
The post is about a project that was acquired by Anthropic being rewritten using AI but the specifics are less interesting than the pattern.
Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
Programming language drama ensues as tech bros oversell the end of software engineering.
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lanius: an agent harness built for the great AI scale-down frontier models are too expensive to use 100%, and all the good ways to use them 5% of the time involve a heck of a lot of moving parts to coordinate lanius has messaging at the core timkellogg.me/blog/2026/07...
Lanius: AI Agents Need an OS, Not a Bigger Brain
Principal AI Architect. Creator of open-strix, a harness for building agent teams. Writing about AI architecture, stateful agents, and what happens when you give AI memory.
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code review is the highest leverage activity senior+ engineers can do yes it's a bottleneck. review the code anyway, you shouldn't automate this away swizec.com/blog/theory-...
Theory of constraints, AI, and code review | Swizec Teller
Feedback from an expert is how you learn taste. Your code doesn't matter until it's shipped.
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“The question of whether the beautiful game has helped Seattle meet some of its sustainability goals — and perhaps beautified the city in the long run — is something city leaders and advocates will be paying attention to long after the tournament has ended.” Traffic today on 2nd Ave 😍
KNKX Public Radio@knkx.org · last mo.As hundreds of thousands of soccer fans have come to Seattle for the World Cup, the city has stretched to test and showcase what its infrastructure can do.
Amateur stick figure artist @brittanyellich.com now presenting @cascadiajs.com about @atproto.com 1 week into her new role at @bsky.app after some time at @github.com and a presentation at @atmosphereconf.org earlier this year. Representing @pdx.atproto.camp with others who took the train here
As we were singing karaoke last night at @cascadiajs.com wrapping up a great conference, hours earlier we learned origin story or low-res imagery alongside karaoke songs. Why does this 1986 CD+G format still exist, and what’s a modern take on what you can build today? Check out Luis’ project.
Luis Montes@monteslu.com · 2mo agoHere's my slides on Karaoke and AI for #CascadiaJS cascadiajs26.netlify.app @cascadiajs.com
New post on supply chain security for npm packages — covering the publishing workflow I push in the projects I maintain, plus the consumer side: why pnpm is a better default than npm, its native minimumReleaseAge config, and trustPolicy: no-downgrade to catch provenance regressions automatically.
Hardening publishing & consuming
A practical look at reducing blast radius in npm publishing workflows — environment-gated OIDC publishing, limiting manual access, and what consumers can do on their end.
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Switching over from Ollama to llama.cpp after reading this: sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-... Today I'm setting up a Grand Competition (Phoenix evals) between itty bitty models to see who is going to be the Top (local) Model for Mima (with Prompt Engineering, of course)
Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots
Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's…
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The @historylink.bsky.social has chronicled the historic March 28, 2026 grand opening of light rail on a Lake Washington floating bridge. www.historylink.org/File/23523
Light rail begins across Lake Washington on March 28, 2026.
At 10:27 a.m. on March 28, 2026, the first train with regular passenger service across Lake Washington departs Seattle's Judkins Park Station for Redmond. The moment marks the culmination of a nearly
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As 2026 midterms approach, here’s an awareness article on how to spot and dissect misleading election fraud rumors.
Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere’s a new rumor spreading about discarded mail-in ballots found in WA w/ insinuations that mail-in voting is insecure & allegations of fraud. It sounds alarming at first glance. But a deeper look reveals the rumor to be misleading in old, familiar ways. katestarbird.substack.com/p/here-we-go...
Thanks @caidan.dev for the solid beta! I really like your concept of leaning into the terminal and the power of piping commands together, while introducing an infinite canvas to visually contain and persist the whole workflow.
Caidan@caidan.dev · 4mo agoI will be adding people to the beta as any new signups roll in, so there's still time to join if you're interested! Also, one of you entered the wrong email, so if you didn't get an email from me feel free to DM me or signup again.
There is SO MUCH happening at CascadiaJS 2026 we couldn't fit it into 280 characters, so here's a video 📺 The full talk schedule is up, Rockbox Karaoke is bought out and we can't wait to see you all soon! cascadiajs.com/2026/schedule
finally posted thoughts about the atmosphere conf (along with an illustration and a bunch of tweaks to the blog) macwright.com/2026/04/05/i...
In the Atmosphere
A lot of nice people in Vancouver talking about nerd stuff
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$25 in API charges after one day running OpenClaw on defaults. A few config changes cut that dramatically. www.briangershon.com/blog/opencla...
How to Avoid Runaway API Costs in OpenClaw | Brian Gershon
Routing every OpenClaw request, from background tasks to complex reasoning, through a premium model adds up fast. Here is how to right-size it.
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Building OpenClaw-style agents? Here is how to run skills without API keys in the agent container. Pattern: two containers - agent posts to an internal URL, tool service holds the credential. The key never crosses into agent space. www.briangershon.com/blog/securin...
Securing Claude and Your Skills: Keeping Credentials Out of Your Agent Container | Brian Gershon
Research shows nearly 20% of publicly available AI agent skills are suspicious or malicious - many targeting your credentials directly. This post explains why that risk is easy to miss, links to the r...
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Claude Code was asked what tools would make it most effective. Top picks: ast-grep for structural code search, difftastic for AST-based diffs, shellcheck for shell script safety. Tools that let AI work on code structure - not just text patterns. batsov.com/articles/202...
Supercharging Claude Code with the Right (CLI) Tools
Ten CLI tools recommended by Claude Code itself, ranked by how much they’d boost its productivity.
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Our first SeattleJS meetup of 2026 is coming up next Wednesday! New year, new content format: We're going to be hosting a moderated panel discussion on using AI in developer workflows. Curious about how other people are using LLM-based tools? Bring your questions for our panelists! RSVP:
SeattleJS: Web Tech Talks - January · Luma
🎉 Get ready to learn and connect at SeattleJS! 🎉 Prepare for an evening filled with fun, networking, and learning. Whether you're a seasoned developer or…
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Want to try vibe coding without production software complexity? HTML tools are the perfect playground for LLM-assisted development. Single files, no deployment, no dependencies. Just experiment and iterate. www.briangershon.com/blog/make-to...
Make the Tool You Wish Existed (with Your LLM) | Brian Gershon
Build custom HTML tools that fit your exact workflow using LLMs. No extensive programming knowledge required. Turn workflow problems into practical tools in hours.
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AI coding assistants index your entire codebase, including credentials and customer data. Each AI coding tool handles security differently. Configure exclusions and teach AI tools what's off-limits. www.briangershon.com/blog/securin... #AICoding #DevTools
Securing AI Coding Tools: Permission Controls and Credential Protection for Engineering Teams | Brian Gershon
AI coding tools handle security, data retention, and training data differently. This guide helps you quickly find tool-specific security configurations, compare approaches across Claude Code, GitHub C...
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I wanted portable AI tools you can spin up by describing them, not hand-coding MCP servers. Describe what you want once. A registry turns that into MCP servers and CLIs that any AI coding assistant can use. One definition, every assistant and format you need. www.briangershon.com/blog/build-a...
Build a Registry of AI Tools. Generate MCP Servers and CLIs. | Brian Gershon
Define prompts and tools in markdown files by describing them to an LLM. A registry framework converts those markdown specs into MCP servers and CLI tools automatically. You iterate in markdown, not f...
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When AI summarizes customer reviews, it often invents names and numbers that look real but aren’t. We saw this in weekly reports across Google, DoorDash, Yelp. Strong insights, wrong facts. Fix: teach AI to verify its own work, not just summarize data. www.briangershon.com/blog/feedbac...
How to Correct AI Errors When Analyzing Customer Reviews | Brian Gershon
When AI generates customer review summaries and trends, it hallucinates numbers and names. Learn how verification tools and feedback loops catch these errors automatically and teach AI to correct its ...
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As teams adopt AI coding tools, they face familiar challenges: maintaining code quality and consistency with team standards. The same principles that help developers write better code can also guide AI tools. Read more at: www.briangershon.com/blog/check-c... #AI #DevTools
Check Commands: Teaching AI to Catch and Correct Team Code | Brian Gershon
When teams use AI tools to generate code, consistency becomes critical. Learn how the check command lets AI tools discover and fix their own errors, and how AGENTS.md teaches your AI tools to generate...
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Billions of requests across MCP servers deployed on Vercel, including Zapier, Solana, and our own. A key insight: wrapping your API in an MCP server isn't enough. Here's what's working best so far: vercel.com/blog/the-se...
The second wave of MCP: Building for LLMs, not developers - Vercel
The second wave of MCP, building for LLMs, not developers. Explore the evolution of MCP as it shifts from developer-focused tools to LLM-native integrations. Discover the future of AI connectivity.
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I met Mikeal at the first NodeConf, which he helped organize. He’s the earliest and most vibrant memory I have of the excitement and community he helped form during the early days of Node.js, and as a strong voice in the JavaScript ecosystem. Rest in peace Mikeal.
Node.js@nodejs.org · last yr.We’re heartbroken by the loss of Mikeal Rogers, a key figure in the Node.js ecosystem and a force behind what makes this community what it is. To help preserve his legacy, we’ve opened a GitHub repo for stories, photos, and memories: github.com/nodejs/mikeal 💚 Thank you, Mikeal. hubs.la/Q03t0DVL0
I jumped full-time on the JavaScript train 2008, as Node.js was just starting up as well. Fun to run through this timeline and remember the birth of npm, Backbone (and spine.js), Atom Shell (Electron), React, Gulp, ... deno.com/blog/history...
A brief history of JavaScript | Deno
In 30 years, JavaScript went from being a little scripting language to one of the world's most popular. Here are key moments to show how it has evolved and where it is headed.
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A handy tool for discovering and cleaning up code debt in your TypeScript projects: `npx ts-unused-exports tsconfig.json`
How do you gracefully sunset an open source project? 🌇 Get valuable do's & don'ts from three experienced maintainers and set up a smooth transition for your community. 👇
Dos and don’ts when sunsetting open source projects
Three maintainers share their tips for gracefully sunsetting open source projects.
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