Thoughts on lean frontend, scalable backends, and DevOps from Mike Zupperhttps://mikezupper.com/en-ushttps://mikezupper.com/posts/corporate-software-architect-journey-to-entrepreneurial-freedom/https://mikezupper.com/posts/corporate-software-architect-journey-to-entrepreneurial-freedom/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.Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/decentralized-ai-analytics-you-cant-optimize-what-you-cant-measure/https://mikezupper.com/posts/decentralized-ai-analytics-you-cant-optimize-what-you-cant-measure/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.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/five-lit-apps-zero-frameworks/https://mikezupper.com/posts/five-lit-apps-zero-frameworks/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.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/how-i-use-8-ai-agents-to-run-my-daily-life/https://mikezupper.com/posts/how-i-use-8-ai-agents-to-run-my-daily-life/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.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/livepeer-byoc-llm-freedom-for-ai-agents/https://mikezupper.com/posts/livepeer-byoc-llm-freedom-for-ai-agents/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.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/livepeer-cloud-spe-enables-llm-low-end-nvidia-gpus-on-livepeer-network/https://mikezupper.com/posts/livepeer-cloud-spe-enables-llm-low-end-nvidia-gpus-on-livepeer-network/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.Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/memory-isolation/https://mikezupper.com/posts/memory-isolation/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.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/my-ai-org-chart/https://mikezupper.com/posts/my-ai-org-chart/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.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/my-initial-experience-using-astro/https://mikezupper.com/posts/my-initial-experience-using-astro/A firsthand developer experience using Astro to build clean, fast, and flexible static sites—covering deployment, styling philosophy, component architecture, and performance wins.Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/naap-analytics-treasury-proposal-milestone-1/https://mikezupper.com/posts/naap-analytics-treasury-proposal-milestone-1/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.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/opencode-blueclaw-escape-ai-credit-treadmill/https://mikezupper.com/posts/opencode-blueclaw-escape-ai-credit-treadmill/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.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/platform-is-the-framework-web-components-lit/https://mikezupper.com/posts/platform-is-the-framework-web-components-lit/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.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/ssr-ssg-csr-without-a-metaframework/https://mikezupper.com/posts/ssr-ssg-csr-without-a-metaframework/Server rendering, static generation, and client rendering — hybrid, per route, from one component set. No Next.js required. Part 2 of the Lit series.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/stop-letting-your-agent-write-div-soup/https://mikezupper.com/posts/stop-letting-your-agent-write-div-soup/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.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/stop-throwing-exceptions-railway-oriented-typescript/https://mikezupper.com/posts/stop-throwing-exceptions-railway-oriented-typescript/Exceptions are invisible control flow. Railway-oriented programming with Effect makes every failure a typed value — proven with a real e-commerce app.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/web-dev-2025-the-cycle-of-complexity/https://mikezupper.com/posts/web-dev-2025-the-cycle-of-complexity/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.Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/weekly-roundup-july-23-20-2025/https://mikezupper.com/posts/weekly-roundup-july-23-20-2025/A behind-the-scenes look at my week: 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.Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikezupper.com/posts/what-im-building-project-overview/https://mikezupper.com/posts/what-im-building-project-overview/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.Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT