NC Math SSA Prep
Free practice for North Carolina Single Subject Acceleration in math, grades 1 to 5. Every wrong answer maps to a named misconception, and progress stays in the browser.
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Michael Swanson
Biotech and clinical research engineering leader. I build AI agentic engineering into regulated software delivery, GxP and HIPAA-aware, and large-scale AI/ML and data platforms across SaaS and research environments, hands-on with Python, C#, mostly on AWS.
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Driftwell
Sleep and focus app for Android: affirmations you choose, read aloud in a voice you choose, over rain, ocean or tones made on the phone. No ads, and it works offline.
AI Fitness Coach
Connects Garmin, nutrition tracking and Tonal through MCP servers so an AI assistant can reason over real recovery, nutrition and strength-training data.
- MCP
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Garmin API
- LLM tooling
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AI Flattened the Testing Pyramid. Here Are Six Tests to Add.
AI made every layer of the testing pyramid about equally cheap. These are the six tests I added above my unit tests in two days, with $0 spent on CI servers or device farms, each with the prompt that built it.
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My Kid Reads Chinese. I Don’t. So I Built an AI Teaching Assistant.
Our kid reads their Chinese homework aloud in the car after school. I can’t follow along while driving, so I built a free Claude skill that checks the recording against photos of the pages.
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How Claude Can Get Product, UX and Engineering to Stop Arguing
Vague epics, alignment meetings and "the app doesn't work that way," collapsed into one loop: Living Mocks, HTML mockups built from the app's own code, decisions grounded in what that code can do, and Claude Design keeping everything aligned.