Robot on Wheels

Hi, I'm Hal. This is where I share what I'm working on and point to interesting things.

current focus (2/2): Cooking assistant Claude plugin

Highlighted Projects

Things MCP

An MCP server for the popular Mac task management app Things lets users use an LLM to understand and manage their todo list.

New update two weeks ago

Flavorful

working on it

Helping home cooks discover the patterns that make improvisation possible.

Photostation

complete

January 2026

A photo kiosk for my nieces—plug in a camera, see photos on the TV, add stickers and silly frames with an Xbox controller

New update two weeks ago

WPA Guide to New York City

complete

October 2023

This site makes the 1938 WPA Guide to New York City interactive and accessible on a mobile device, creating a historical "lens" on New York City as users walk around the city.

Latest Update (1/18/2026)

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For Christmas, I got my five-year-old nieces some cheap digital cameras from Walmart. For their birthdays a few weeks later, my brother suggested getting them a digital picture frame so they could see their photos on a "big screen." I wasn’t too happy with the digital picture frames I found: cloud subscriptions, overpriced, boring.…

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01/26

Claude Code Psychosis: Are Your Problems Software Shaped? - this is my favorite thing on Claude Code so far (Jasmine Sun)

01/18

Manic Technology - "you still need friends for that, people who know you, who know when you’re talking too fast, and the gleam in your eye has taken on a hard edge" (Robin Sloan)

01/18

Software's YouTube Moment Is Happening Now - "software becomes a medium for expression, not just utility" (Anish Acharya)

01/13

Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead - Models = processor, Agents = OS, Skills = apps (YouTube/Anthropic)

01/03

2025 LLM Year in Review (karpathy)

01/03

All That Is Solid Melts Into Code - "language models are...totally capable of coaxing computation out into the realm of the human … yet instead they’ll pull a vast field of human activity deeper into the domain of code" (Robin Sloan)

01/03

Cooking With Claude (Simon Willison)

01/03

Introducing A2UI - framework for agents generating user interfaces (Google)

01/03

Resonant Computing Manifesto - private, dedicated, plural, adaptable, prosocial (resonantcomputing.org)

11/21

AI: Tool, Mind, Weapon (@arm1st1ce)

11/21

Claude Skills Explained - skills vs prompts vs projects vs subagents vs mcp (Anthropic)

11/21

How to Implement AI Prototyping In Your Product Development Cycle (Reforge)

11/21

Hyperproductivity: The Next Stage of AI? - "the more you use it, the better it gets" (Steve Newman)

11/17

AI Will Not Make You RIch - "The way to invest in AI is to think through the implications of knowledge workers becoming more efficient, to imagine what markets this efficiency unlocks, and to invest in those." (Jerry Neumann)

10/17

Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills - I’m very excited about this, the untapped potential in Claude Code (et al) for non-coding tasks is huge (Anthropic)