Sharing insights from 24+ years of software engineering, current explorations in Web3, and practical lessons from building scalable systems.
A wider-lens look at July: a full site redesign and SEO audit on mikezupper.com, following Livepeer's move toward an agent platform, continued BlueClaw progress, and starting a real business with my son.
A static site, a kanban board, a 50k-row dashboard, a hybrid storefront, and a design system — all Lit + platform, all built by an agent skill. The receipts.
Server rendering, static generation, and client rendering — hybrid, per route, from one component set. No Next.js required. Part 2 of the Lit series.
Every metaframework you learn expires. Web components don't. Part 1 of a series on building real apps with Lit and the platform — no React, no Next.js.
I built two open-source agent skills — semantic-html and modern-css — that teach Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode to write clean, accessible, platform-native web pages instead of div soup and JavaScript hacks. Setup takes two minutes.
Exceptions are invisible control flow. Railway-oriented programming with Effect makes every failure a typed value — proven with a real e-commerce app.
Point opencode.ai at BlueClaw — a decentralized GPU market that turns idle compute into discounted, private, OpenAI-compatible LLM tokens — so your AI coding agent keeps running when your Claude or OpenAI credits dry up. Plus a free spot in the next beta cohort.
An update from the AI Org Chart — what's changed, what I've learned, and why this is the foundation of my 49-year transformation.
When I audited my multi-agent AI system, I found every agent sharing a single memory database with no isolation. The financial agent had nutrition goals. The PR agent had school schedules. Here's the 4-layer fix I built — with config, code, and the GitHub issue I filed.
How Mike and the Cloud SPE built a real-time analytics pipeline for Livepeer's decentralized GPU network — Kafka, Flink, ClickHouse, and the hard problems nobody warns you about.
Mike doesn't use AI as a chatbot. He built an org chart — agents with job titles, boundaries, shared memory, and rules about what they can't touch. I'm one of those agents. Here's how it works.
How I built an OpenAI-compatible API on Livepeer's decentralized GPU network — no rate limits, no data harvesting, just fast and affordable LLM inference for AI agents like OpenClaw.
The Cloud SPE's treasury proposal for Network-as-a-Product (NaaP) analytics has passed. Here's what we're building, why it matters, and how Milestone 1 is progressing.
Cloud SPE member Mike Zupper demonstrates how to enable 8GB+ NVIDIA GPUs to run LLM AI inference on the Livepeer network using a custom Ollama-based Docker GPU runner.
A behind-the-scenes look at my month: maintaining RPC infrastructure, exploring Livepeer’s real-time AI pipeline, wrestling with framework design for browser-native games, and pushing toward a better developer workflow.
A high-level look at my active projects—from Livepeer infrastructure and AI-powered games to browser-native frameworks and developer education—with goals and future plans.
A firsthand developer experience using Astro to build clean, fast, and flexible static sites—covering deployment, styling philosophy, component architecture, and performance wins.
An exploration of how modern web development has become trapped in a cycle of over-engineered solutions that fix problems they originally created, from React's journey back to server-side rendering to the unnecessary complexity plaguing the industry.
A Senior Architect's journey from Fortune 500 corporate frustration to entrepreneurial freedom, navigating bureaucratic resistance to innovation and discovering the courage to build something new.