Host of Chain of Thought · Technical Ecosystem Lead at Modular · Angel Investor
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By day, Technical Ecosystem Lead at Modular, working on the Mojo programming language and MAX inference platform. Before that, developer ecosystems at Galileo (acquired by Cisco) and LinearB, enterprise consulting at Microsoft, and a career in political organizing before any of it.
- 🎙️ 60+ episodes of Chain of Thought shipped
- 💰 Angel investor in AI infrastructure, dev tools, and robotics
- 🎲 Avid Twilight Imperium and Age of Empires II player, former chess team nerd
- 📫 Best way to reach me: LinkedIn
Chain of Thought is a podcast about AI infrastructure and the people building it. Guests include Chip Huyen, Logan Kilpatrick of Google DeepMind, plus leaders and founders from NVIDIA, AMD, Databricks, Poolside, Liquid AI, Fireworks, Vercel, and many others.
- Block Cut 4,000 Jobs and Blamed AI. The Truth is More Complicated.
- He Built an AI Coworker to Run 90% of his Day
- What Atlassian's $1B DX Acquisition Means for the Developer Productivity Market
- The Rise of Tireless Digital Employees
- 2024 Is the Year GenAI Code Hits Adolescence
- The Problem with Perfectionism
I maintain a Python-interop coverage map of the Mojo ecosystem: what a developer coming from Python expects the standard library to cover, versus what actually exists in Mojo today. The libraries below fill the gaps it flags.
Pure-Mojo libraries that mirror the Python stdlib APIs developers already know, filling ecosystem gaps for the Mojo language. No Python dependencies, no FFI unless the job demands it. Each ships with tests anchored to an external ground truth (official spec suites, byte-for-byte Python parity, real-world corpora).
| Repo | Python parallel | What it does | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📡 | mojo-feed | feedparser |
RSS/Atom/JSON Feed parser — every syndication format since 1999, 138/138 real-world corpus, 130+ MB/s |
| 📝 | mojo-markdown | markdown |
CommonMark parser + HTML renderer — 98.6% spec conformance, 132/132 on emphasis |
| 📄 | mojo-html | readability |
Liberal HTML parser + readability extraction — Mozilla-derived scoring, paywall confidence gate |
| 🌳 | mojo-xml | xml.etree |
General-purpose XML — ElementTree-shaped DOM, scoped namespaces, 14/14 byte-match vs CPython xml.etree, 6,000-iter fuzz |
| 🎙 | mojo-captions | — | SRT/WebVTT transcript parser — speakers, voice spans, round-trip serialization, clip windows |
| 🔤 | mojo-unicodedata | unicodedata |
Unicode normalization (NFC/NFD/NFKC/NFKD) + casefold — 20,034/20,034 official conformance |
| 🔗 | mojo-url | urllib.parse |
URL parsing, building, and query-string encoding — 161/161 Python byte-match, full RFC 3986 urljoin conformance |
| 📐 | mojo-diff | difflib |
Myers text diff + unified_diff — byte-for-byte match with Python's output |
| 🧩 | mojo-template | jinja2 |
Standalone jinja-flavored template engine — autoescape, 43/43 jinja2 parity |
| 📦 | mojo-tar | tarfile |
tar archive reader/writer — ustar/GNU/pax, GNU-tar byte-identical interop |
| 🗄️ | mojo-redis | redis-py |
RESP2 Redis client — live-server tested, hardened against hostile replies |
| Repo | What it does | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ✍️ | avoid-ai-writing | Open-source AI writing detector & rewriter for Claude Code, Cowork, OpenClaw & Cursor. 49 pattern categories, 109-entry replacement table, two-pass rewrite, zero-dep detector engine. |  |
| 🧩 | claude-context-os | An operating system for your Claude context — versioned files, self-curating memory, /start→/end loop |  |
| 📧 | gws-mcp-server | Google Workspace for AI agents: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, Docs, and Tasks as 41 curated MCP tools on the official gws CLI |  |
| 🛠️ | claude-code-skills | Nine production-tested Claude Code skills: session memory, multi-agent code review, eval integrity, SSOT checks, drift reconciliation, worktree recovery, skill scaffolding, and more |  |
| 🎶 | track-finder | Paste or import a tracklist, get SoundCloud/Spotify/YouTube/Apple Music (your choice!) search links for every track |  |
| 🔄 | wrekenfile-converter | File format converter for Wreken spec (Swytchcode) |  |
| 🏰 | aoe2-troop-calculator | Age of Empires II troop calculator for quick army composition and cost math, built for AOE2: DE |  |
| 🎯 | ai-tools-for-creators | Curated AI skills, MCP servers, and workflow tools for creators |  |
| 📚 | ai-learning-resources | Curated learning path from "what is AI?" to building with Claude Code |  |
| 📰 | substack-mcp | MCP server for Substack: posts are draft-only by design, short-form Notes publish immediately |  |
| 🎙 | podcastindex-mcp | MCP server for the Podcast Index API: use it to search podcasts, track appearances, monitor trending shows, check feed health, etc. |  |
| 📈 | op3-mcp | MCP server for OP3 podcast analytics: downloads, geography, and listening app share. Read-only. |  |
| 🎛️ | Transistor-MCP | MCP server for the Transistor.fm API: episodes, analytics, transcripts, and webhooks. Maintained fork of gxjansen/Transistor-MCP. |  |
| 📋 | podcast-benchmark | Benchmark any podcast against a peer set using only public data — catalog, cadence, transcripts, feed hygiene. No download estimates, no scraping. |  |
| 🧠 | agent-memory-kit | The curation loop for agent memory: capture, recall, and a read-only curator that finds rot and contradictions before your agent is confidently wrong |  |
These are personal / open-source projects done in my individual capacity. They are not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by my employer in any way.
I write $1-10K checks into early-stage companies, mostly AI infrastructure and dev tools. More on my thesis here.
| Featured Companies | What they do |
|---|---|
| Substack | The world's publishing platform |
| Zaapi | AI customer service for e-commerce |
| Iris | Consumer AI assistant (YC F25) |
| DreamForge | AI game creation platform |
| Scam.ai | Deepfake detection (Skydeck Batch 20) |
| Swytchcode | Execution authority for API integrations |
| Shield | B2B stablecoin payments & online banking |
| Haply Robotics | Industrial robotics and haptics |
| Trilobio | Lab automation robotics |
| Stride Soles | DTC custom orthotics via AI scanning |
| Rad Intel | AI marketing platform |
| YC Orange Fund F25 | Diversified YC batch fund |
My first time in a command line was part of a 2007 era high-school project refurbishing PCs for computer labs throughout Latin America, which rapidly evolved into making websites for old Runescape clans.
