Adam McKerlie

One of the things I'm known for is starting hobbies.

How I built CalledUp, a baseball and softball team management app, using AI in a sustainable way, starting features on my phone at the ball diamond and finishing them at home.

Six years ago I spent a week training a neural network to write blog posts and the results were terrible.

A post generated by ChatGPT to showcase the differences in how technology has progressed over the last six years

A look into the books I read in 2023, the goals I set and how I did.

I've been blogging on and off for almost 20 years now and I wanted to quickly look back at how the content and technology has changed as well as share some numbers over the years.

A deep dive into how I built my first npm package, a social media sharing component for the Astro framework.

The best piece of advice I've ever received about building software is to ship things you're embarrassed with.

A quick look into how you can migrate your blog from Hugo to Astro, extend your markdown content and fix any issues that come up during migration.

Creating a company engineering blog is hard.

A lightning talk I gave on how (not) to start a new hobby.

A look into the books I read in 2022, the goals I set and how I did.

A quick meta post about my desire to write more and how I plan to accomplish it

Explore the hidden costs of excessive meetings on productivity and employee morale, and learn effective strategies to minimize meetings and improve efficiency in the workplace.

A deep-dive into how I built a program that generated over 10,000 unique 8-bit lightsabers and then tweeted them daily.

A quick look into running scheduled tasks on your Digital Ocean droplet via a crontab

Meetings can be detrimental to productivity and learn strategies to minimize unnecessary meetings, boosting efficiency and focus in your team.