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If you want a hill out there, you weld one
Why the Midwest hangs a million gallons of water off a pole, while Arizona pours the same machine into a hillside.
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bobby.menu
A personal restaurant notebook turned into a public map, a set of shareable menus, and an interface an AI assistant can query.
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Model Context Protocol TypeScript SDK
The TypeScript SDK made it practical to let bobby.menu expose the same curated restaurant model to an AI client without inventing a second, conversation-only data source.
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bobby.menu
A personal restaurant notebook turned into a public map, a set of shareable menus, and an interface an AI assistant can query.
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A read-only research system for testing whether agreement among independently skilled prediction-market traders contains usable edge.
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If you want a hill out there, you weld one
Why the Midwest hangs a million gallons of water off a pole, while Arizona pours the same machine into a hillside.
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A homepage should be an edition, not a dashboard
Notes from designing a personal commonplace that can hold finished work, active questions, and the things I keep returning to.
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Maintaining bobby.menu, documenting a prediction-market research experiment, and turning this long-held domain into an editorial home.
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