Linell Bonnette

Photos from May through July -- a desert trip, plus an above-average number of good dogs.

These days I build my side projects for an audience of exactly one, and it turns out that's way more fun.

Two months heads-down for AI Engineer World's Fair, plus a digital garden and a fitness app that wants abs.

Updates from March and April 2026

Updates from February 2026

On the craft and responsibility of writing code that shapes thousands of other developers' projects.

Updates from January 2026

Updates from December 2025

Updates from November 2025

Updates from October 2025

Shipping code at Inngest and making progress on my running.

Started at Inngest and began my running journey.

I've left my full time role as director of software engineering at SBLive to pursue a very cool new company, Inngest.

A quick review of creating and deploying an MCP server using Smithery, a gateway for discovering and connecting to MCP servers.

A review of how concurrency works in both Elixir and Go

I think that MCP is a step towards the future of AI, and I'm betting it sticks.

A quick fix for `ReferenceError: TransformStream is not defined` in mcp-remote

Calculate the day of the week for your birthday, over the span of your entire lifetime.

A little Chrome extension for my own personal use.

How to use Elo Ratings to predict MLB game outcomes.

A fun audiobook about how the Pirates used big data to turn the franchise around.

An easy, accurate TDEE calculator based on your real-life reaults.

Modern AI is a lever, not a hammer -- treat it as such.

In an age of biohacking and nootropics, I'll clue you in on something the doctor's don't want you to know.

My poorly articulated feelings about Fyodor's Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'.

One of the best gifts I gave this year was accidentally a very fake version of the intended book.

My notes and thoughts on "Outlive" by Peter Attia.

My notes and thoughts on "Domain-Driven Design" by Eric Evans.

This year's website refresh takes on a new flavor: Astro

My notes and thoughts on "Whos Number 1" by Amy Langville

Sometimes you don't need to complicate things.

In an effort to explore different ways that AI can be useful at SBLive, I made a custom agent for interacting with our API.

I love the idea of an online notebook, and with my website's transition away from Notion I think Obsidian Publish is a nice middle ground.

I'm changing up the way that I manage my website.

An easy workaround I've found for my code search flow using Neovim and Telescope.

My notes and thoughts on "The Comfort Crisis" by Easter Michael.

Mise en place is the art of preparing and arranging your kitchen before you start cooking.

It's a little silly, but I think that this ONE WEIRD TRICK really does help make debugging issues a lot more fun and thorough.

My notes and thoughts on "Napoleon" by Andrew Roberts.

My notes and thoughts on "Wordslut" by Amanda Montell

The best experience comes from doing, and software development makes it so easy to do whatever you want.

The tools I use every day for developing software.

The best note-taking solution I've found so far.

Just about every developer's life would be easier if they could write SQL queries.

How I got started using GitHub Actions

An example of using small AWS services to compose something neat.

A pro-tip too good not to share.