Building Ask Paul

I've been generating a lot of web apps recently. It's been exhilarating to be able to launch projects (albeit on the small side) that I've always wanted to see be created finally be willed into existence. Last week on the train back from London I embarked on my largest project yet, https://tldr.express. I've been amazed by Agents like...

I've always wanted to know which user agents are currently hitting my site... Am I getting crawled? Are ML bots sifting through my site? I added some middleware to my site to log the user agent of every request while using Vercel's KV to store the user agents and their counts. User Agents in the last hour User Agent Count

I've a little thing where I like to know roughly how many days it until something. My kids' birthdays, my wedding anniversary, Christmas... Following my focus on Generated Web Apps where launch sites and services without touching a single line of code, I decided to build a simple service that didn't require anyone to sign-up or sign-in, but could...

I've been building lots of apps by using LLMs and Agents. I'm currently up to about 17 tools, utilities and demos over the duration of a couple of weeks. I build them for me and because tools like Replit have enabled me during my small spots of free time to build fully working sites and apps that solve the immediate problem that I have. I've felt...

I missed it, but I just realised that as of August 28th 2024 I've been blogging for over 20 year. I would have finished university and left my startups a couple of years before, gone went in to Enterprise, left behind Linux and Perl for a brief fling with c# and .net and started to make my first steps in to being a lot more public both in terms...