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From One Chatbot to Five Agents: My AWS Agent Engineer Nanodegree
TL;DR: I finished the Future AWS Agent Engineer nanodegree with three graded projects, each a...
Earl Grey11 min read
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Earl Grey
Civic technologist building AI tools that help systems explain themselves. Clew Suite builder, NACM 2026 speaker. I write about hackathons, product judgment, agent readiness, and learning in public.
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El Altar que Habla: A Día de los Muertos Ofrenda Built with Gemma 4
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the...
Earl Grey9 min read
#ai#google#community#hackathon
Google DevFest Central Valley: Community First, Buildathon Second.
TL;DR: My second DevFest Central Valley in Modesto was about who AI is for, from the mayor's opening...
Earl Grey6 min read
#ai#webdev#hackathon#claude
An App Built for One: Why a Devpost Skill Pack Made Me Spec It Anyway
My wife lost her yellow book. So I built her an app. TL;DR: Cuenta is a small app for my wife's...
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#ai#career#learning#discuss
AI Took Me to Three Stages. I Still Don't Like Public Speaking.
A year of building with AI put me on three stages. I liked the message more than the...
Earl Grey6 min read
#devchallenge#hf26challenge#gemma#githubcopilot
I Wanted a Side Hustle. I Built a Herald With a Tip Jar.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle The math...
Earl Grey11 min read
#ai#vibecoding#mlh#hacktoberfest
Eight Minutes to Live. Was It Cursor, or Was It the Spec?
A tip calculator, a stopwatch, and a lot of pesos. TL;DR: I built a USD/MXN tip calculator with...
Earl Grey8 min read
#ai#learning#career#discuss
On Saying No: Will the Well Dry Up?
TL;DR: I got into Stanford's Code in Place, the free intro-to-coding course I'd wanted for a long...
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#ai#showdev#hackathon#webdev
README Clew 2: Built with AdaL. Labeled by Jev. Judged by Code. Explained by Haiku.
Jev labels the line. Code makes the call. TL;DR: README Clew 2 checks whether a public GitHub...
Earl Grey11 min read
#ai#webdev#buildinpublic#vibecoding
A Builder in New Orleans: When Your Vibecoded App Comes on Vacation
First day on Bourbon Street, and my sister and I had the most important question of the trip: where...
Earl Grey9 min read
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Two Sisters Tinctures: Building an Apothecary Skincare Tracker with Gemma 4 for My Sister
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend TL;DR: I built a...
Earl Grey11 min read
#aws#ai#webdev#showdev
Can AI Write a Sports Recap Without Making Up Stats? Mostly.
TL;DR: Full Court Press is a zine for every WNBA game, live on AWS at fullcourtpress.lol. Code...
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#ai#gemini#agents#learning
Build with Gemini Sunnyvale: Antigravity Can Cook! With Caveats.
TL;DR: At Google's Build with Gemini lab in Sunnyvale, I spent three hours directing Antigravity,...
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#beginners#learning#python#discuss
I Wrote the Code This Time. Does It Count If the Answer Was Wrong?
TL;DR: I've shipped 26+ projects by directing AI agents, and I still couldn't write a Python program...
Earl Grey6 min read
#ai#aws#agents#learning
Nova Adiutrix: My Second Agent Built My First Project's To-Do List
TL;DR: I shipped the second project in my AWS nanodegree, an AI support agent on Amazon Bedrock....
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#ai#hackathon#learning#discuss
My First AI Judge Interview: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
TL;DR: I entered HackerRank Orchestrate wanting to win, then faced an AI judge asking how Praxi Clew...
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#ai#buildinpublic#agents#discuss
My Agents Never Get Tired. I Do: On Satisficing
I approved a prompt on a Tuesday morning and went to make a cup of Irish Afternoon tea. By the time I...
Earl Grey8 min read
#buildinpublic#civictech#claude#aws
Scoping Permissions with RBAC and Data Access Control at the AI Gateway
I work in the California courts. Courtroom operations, county level. Part of that job is deciding...
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#buildinpublic#learning#discuss#devjournal
After the Sprint: A 72-Hour Build Retrospective - Spoiler: It Wasn't Secure
I built Charitas Clew for a 72-hour DEV Weekend Challenge. It worked. I submitted it. And then I did...
Earl Grey7 min read
#ai#aws#learning#buildinpublic
Future AWS Agent Engineer? I Didn't Write the Code. Does It Count?
A few weeks ago I wrote about hitting ReAct in the coursework and having a record scratch moment,...
Earl Grey8 min read
#devchallenge#weekendchallenge#civictech#antigravity
Charitas Clew: Bureaucracy is heavy. Let's build the counterweight.
I spent Friday night staring at a mock municipal utility shutoff notice. The text was dense. The...
Earl Grey6 min read
#agents#webdev#buildinpublic#discuss
I built it twice. Didn't place twice. Then Google and Vercel shipped it.
A you.com rep said it at a hackathon kickoff in March. The web has a second audience now. The first...
Earl Grey9 min read
#aws#learning#buildinpublic#claude
Block Zero: Oh, no! Claude, Kiro and I over-engineered the throwaway.
A lesson in overcorrection, from an AI-assisted builder who is scared stiff of shipping spaghetti and...
Earl Grey9 min read
#ai#aws#learning#buildinpublic
Future AWS Agent Engineer? I Didn't Write the Code. Does It Count?
A few weeks ago I wrote about hitting ReAct in the coursework and having a record scratch moment,...
Earl Grey8 min read
#buildinpublic#ai#webdev#beginners
My first website said "Don't commit without context." I never committed it at all.
The renewal notice came and I decided to let it go. threadkeeper.io was my first idea and my first...
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#ai#civictech#community#claude
Claude Impact Lab LA: Community Changed the Code
Eighty minutes into building with three people I had met that morning, I renamed the idea I brought...
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#ai#learning#buildinpublic#discuss
Who Named This ReAct? I'd Like to Speak to the Manager.
This week I started the Agentic Engineer Nanodegree through AWS AI & ML Scholars, the next step...
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#frontendchallenge#devchallenge#claude#a11y
Sobremesa: Six meals in Mexico, heritage without an address.
This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, Perfect Landing Mexico is our...
Earl Grey8 min read
#showdev#ai#webdev#buildinpublic
Netlify's Hot AR Summer Challenge: I Wasn't Going to Enter. 33 Apps Later, I'm So Glad I Did
On Friday, July 31, I was at date night dinner with my wife in LA. We sat down at 8. The plan was...
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AWS Amplify SSR gotcha: chasing a bug that was never in my code
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The build was...
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