Rizèl Scarlett articles - 102 total
The AI Skeptic's Guide to Context Windows
Working with AI tools can feel like working with a flaky, chaotic, but overconfident coworker. You...
How OpenRouter Unlocked Our Workshop Strategy
When my team launched Goose in early January 2025, we knew we had something special. We built a free,...
Built by Subagents: A Collaborative Postman Alternative for Kids
I built Postman meets Google Docs for 10-year-olds. Cue record scratch. Cue freeze frame. Cue...
Why I Used Goose to Build a Chaotic Emotion Detection App
Developers deserve to have fun. There was a time when the internet felt magical. I remember going to...
How to Choose a Conference Talk Topic
You're not Beyoncé, but your talk deserves a tour. Framework My Goal How to Find Your...
How I Manage Localhost Port Conflicts With an AI Agent
Localhost Ports Hoarding I'm perpetually drowning in open tabs. Yes, I do need Bluesky,...
A Recipe for Success: Cooking Up Repeatable Agentic Workflows
The Remy-Linguini Dynamic If you haven't seen the movie, here's the gist: Remy is an...
11 Practical Ways I Use AI Agents Without Losing My Authenticity
"Stop using AI," reads yet another viral post. I get it. It's frustrating to review a colleague's...
How to Vibe Code Responsibly (with Goose)
On Feb 2, 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase "vibe coding". Vibe coding represents a new...
Codename Goose Goes to Boston
Question: What happens when you bring 70+ AI enthusiasts, open source contributors, and curious...
Your AI Agent isn't an Engineer
Table of Contents Why This Conversation Matters How AI Marketing Shaped This Perception The Problem...
What Text Area Popovers Taught Me About Browser APIs
I recently went down several rabbit holes about building WYSIWYG editors and popovers. While on...
The Average Developer is a Multitasker: A Case for Agents
I’ve always been a proponent of coding with AI, but I used to be wary of pushing the “productivity”...
2024 Year in Review: My Greatest Achievement
In 2023, I decided to stop operating in survival mode. After years of fixating on financial security...
How to Stay and Grow in Tech (especially if you're a minority)
The de-evolution of "breaking into tech" "Break into tech" started as a well-intentioned...
Screenshot-Driven Development
I'm a developer at heart, so when I'm working on a personal project, the hardest part isn't writing...
How to Extend your AI Agent for Custom Developer Workflows
The beauty of open source lies in its ability to breed innovation, which is why I was excited to...
How My AI Dev Agent Turns Screenshots into UI Updates
Today I learned that I can show Goose, an open source AI developer agent, a screenshot of my UI and...
Beyond LLMs: My Introductory Experience with AI Agents
If you ask ten developers to define an 'AI agent,' you'll get fifteen different answers. And if you...
Should we open source AI?
The Great Debate The phrase "Open Source AI" has sparked passionate reactions, creating a...
The Reality of Balancing Pregnancy in Developer Relations
Dreaming of a job and a traditional family might seem ordinary, but for me, it was a daring...
How Web5 and Bluesky are Building the Next Layer of the Web - A Comparative Analysis
As companies increasingly commodify our personal data and privacy breaches make headlines, many...
Simplifying Cross-Platform Payments with DAPs
"Dap me up!" is a colloquial term followed by a gesture used in Western cultures to greet people or...
7 Unexpected Ways Verifiable Credentials are Used Today
"Verifiable Credentials seem niche. Only a small group of technologists would be interested in this,"...
9 Things You Didn't Know About Decentralized Identifiers
Remember your first username? If you were anything like me in the early 2000s—too young to surf the...
My First Six Months as a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD
Table of Contents Undervaluing Myself The Epiphany Self-Doubt Happiness TBD’s...
How JSON Web Tokens Power Mobile Driver's Licenses
Table of Contents Introduction The History of Wallets You Probably Own a Digital...
A Beginner-Friendly Illustrated Guide to Verifiable Credentials
This blog post uses storytelling to introduce beginners to Verifiable Credentials, followed by a...
The Future of Personal AI
The Future of Personal AI For many years, artificial intelligence primarily piqued the...
Shifting Loan Power to Borrowers
"Our current credit system says, 'Saddle yourself, so we can give you more to saddle.'" Eric Lapin,...