Frontend is harder than backend

what do backend dudes even do other than click like 4 things in aws and then groan and say it’s gonna take 4 weeks to update the shape of an api payload

A friendly intro to neural networks—what they are, how they learn, and why they matter for software engineers exploring the world of generative AI. stevekinney.com/writing/neural…

Heads up: Frontend Masters 💻✨ is offering $10 off your first month. I am pretty sure you just have to use this link. frontendmasters.com/?code=kinney&u…

My notes on getting the most out of GPT-4.1: context window optimization, coding tips, prompt best practices, and when to choose GPT-4.1 over GPT-4.5. stevekinney.com/writing/gettin…

My weekend notes from the paper, These are my notes from the paper, "When Counterfactual Reasoning Fails: Chaos and Real-World Complexity." stevekinney.com/writing/counte…

Studying AI in arguably the most retro way possible.

I wrote up a quick little guide on using Anthropic's Message Batch API with Temporal to process large collections of prompts in a single go—and for *way* cheaper. stevekinney.com/writing/anthro…

Clearly, someone cannot be trusted.

I wrote a post about some of the Cursor rules that I've been using in a TypeScript project that I've been working on—despite all of my recent snark, I've been digging it. 😛 stevekinney.com/writing/cursor… #ai #typescript #cursor

In the vein of yesterday's post on writing some Cursor rules for TypeScript projects, it occured to me that it might be helpful to share some of the rules I've been working on for working with Temporal workflows using the TypeScript SDK. stevekinney.com/writing/cursor…

It's still alpha, but I just published an SDK that wraps the Hacker News API and Algolia's Search HN API in one client. The next step is to kick the tires on it a bit more by building an MCP server around it, but if you notice any bugs before I do, lmk. github.com/stevekinney/ha…

I took Anthropic's Model Context Protocol specification and created a bunch of Zod schemas for run-time validation of the types, which might be helpful is you're building your own MCP server from the ground up—like I'm about to this weekend. github.com/stevekinney/mc…

When I left my last job, I told my team to just blame everything on me—even if I had nothing to do with it. That's the greatest give a departing colleague can give to their teammates. 😂