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Technical articles about software engineering, AI integration, and web development.

Building ClaytonRye.com for My Father's 77th Birthday

Oct 29, 202510 min read

Building ClaytonRye.com for My Father's 77th Birthday

A website honoring my father Clayton Rye's five decades as a documentary filmmaker, Vietnam veteran, and film professor, launched for his 77th birthday.

The Web Audio API: A Cautionary Tale of Ambitious Design and Practical Limitations

Oct 20, 202512 min read

The Web Audio API: A Cautionary Tale of Ambitious Design and Practical Limitations

Why the Web Audio API's ambitious design collided with what developers actually needed, and what its history teaches about web standards.

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Building an Interactive Circle of Fifths: Music Theory Meets Web Audio

Oct 13, 20253 min read

Building an Interactive Circle of Fifths: Music Theory Meets Web Audio

I built an interactive Circle of Fifths that plays what it shows. Web Audio synthesis turns a centuries-old theory diagram into something you can hear.

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Second Reality: 32 Years of Demoscene Excellence

Oct 7, 202510 min read

Second Reality: 32 Years of Demoscene Excellence

Future Crew's Second Reality turns 32. I downloaded it on a BBS as a kid; now it runs instantly in your browser via DosKit.

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The /llms.txt Standard: An Elegant Solution Nobody's Using

Sep 12, 202513 min read

The /llms.txt Standard: An Elegant Solution Nobody's Using

The /llms.txt standard is an elegant proposal for AI-friendly web content. It has one fundamental problem: no major AI platform actually uses it.

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AT Protocol MCP Server: Bridging AI and Bluesky's Decentralized Social Network

Aug 30, 20255 min read

AT Protocol MCP Server: Bridging AI and Bluesky's Decentralized Social Network

My MCP server for the AT Protocol: zero-config public reads of Bluesky data, authenticated writes when you need them.

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Infrastructure Sovereignty and the Economics of Decentralized Social Protocols

Jul 25, 20256 min read

Infrastructure Sovereignty and the Economics of Decentralized Social Protocols

Examining the technical architecture trade-offs and governance challenges in AT Protocol's approach to decentralized social media infrastructure.

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Wassette: Microsoft's WebAssembly Runtime for Secure AI Tool Execution

Jun 18, 20258 min read

Wassette: Microsoft's WebAssembly Runtime for Secure AI Tool Execution

Most MCP servers run with full system access. I dig into Wassette, Microsoft's WebAssembly runtime that sandboxes AI tools behind capability grants.

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ActivityPub MCP Server: Bridging AI and the Fediverse

May 2, 20254 min read

ActivityPub MCP Server: Bridging AI and the Fediverse

How I taught Claude to explore the Fediverse: an MCP server that discovers actors, fetches timelines, and queries Mastodon-compatible instances.

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Building an Electromagnetic Spectrum Explorer

Mar 14, 20256 min read

Building an Electromagnetic Spectrum Explorer

Femtometers to kilometers on one screen: how I built an interactive spectrum explorer with React, D3, and NIST-exact constants behind every value.

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OpenZIM MCP Server: Offline Knowledge for AI Assistants

Jan 28, 20257 min read

OpenZIM MCP Server: Offline Knowledge for AI Assistants

I built openzim-mcp so AI assistants can search Wikipedia with zero connectivity. ZIM archives pack an entire encyclopedia into one indexed file.

Building a Gopher MCP Server: Bringing 1991's Internet to Modern AI

Nov 12, 20247 min read

Building a Gopher MCP Server: Bringing 1991's Internet to Modern AI

Why I wired a 1991 protocol into modern AI: gopher-mcp gives assistants the small internet's text-first content with almost no protocol overhead.

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