Memos by Brian Swichkow
- How to Build Your First MCP Server
How to build your first MCP server is a practitioner's guide to creating a Model Context Protocol server that connects any data source or tool to Claude Code, Claude.ai, or any MCP-compatible AI...
- Claude Code Hooks and Skills
Claude Code Hooks and Skills are the two complementary extensibility systems built into Claude Code — the Hook handles automated reactions to lifecycle events, and the Skill handles reusable...
- How to Write a CLAUDE.md File
How to write a CLAUDE.md file is the definitive practitioner guide to Claude Code's most important configuration layer — the markdown file that gives Claude persistent context about your project,...
- Bumble
Bumble is a consumer app for dating and friendship, launched in 2014 by a company that introduces itself as "The Love Company" and states its mission as "to bring people closer to love." Bumble says...
- Resy
Resy is a restaurant reservation platform that describes itself as "an end-to-end operating system, a guest experience platform, and management software for hospitality businesses." It brings...
- Regulation In Advertising
Regulation in advertising is the rules and enforcement governing advertising claims, set by each jurisdiction's own regulators, such as the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the UK Advertising...
- Firebase
Firebase is an app development platform from Google, described on its site as "a platform of services to help you and AI agents build and run intelligent apps." Its products fall into two groups:...
- Sanskrit
Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-European language of India on which many modern languages are based, and whose history the University of Oxford's Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies traces back...
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a humanistic approach to psychotherapy grounded in attachment theory, developed primarily by clinical psychologist Sue Johnson and used with individuals, couples...
- Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders, according to the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The...
- Ninja Warrior
Ninja Warrior refers here to American Ninja Warrior, a competition series in which athletes NBC calls Ninjas race obstacle courses for a $250,000 grand prize, airing on NBC since its fourth season....
- React
React is an open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces, described on its site as "the library for web and native user interfaces." Developers build screens, pages, and apps from...
- Museum of Jurassic Technologies
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a museum in Culver City, California, that describes itself as "an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of...
- Character.ai
Character.ai is a consumer Artificial Intelligence (AI) entertainment platform operated by Character Technologies, Inc., where people chat with and create AI Characters. The company describes its...
- La Growth Machine
La Growth Machine (LGM) is a B2B multichannel outreach platform that runs prospecting sequences across LinkedIn, email, calls, voice messages and X from one sequence builder. Its product covers B2B...
- MacGyver
MacGyver is a television drama and action-adventure series released from 1985 to 1992, following secret agent Angus MacGyver as he improvises his way out of danger with everyday objects. Paramount's...
- Claude Cowork
Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for non-coding knowledge work: given a goal, Claude works across the files and tools a user chooses and completes multi-step tasks such as research, analysis, and...
- Claude Code Swarm Mode
Claude Code Swarm Mode (officially called Agent Teams) is a multi-agent orchestration system built into Claude Code by Anthropic. Initially feature-flagged off, the system was found by the developer...
- How to Set Up Claude Code
How to set up Claude Code is a practitioner's guide to getting Claude Code running and configured for real work — not just installed, but set up with the memory, permissions, and workflow patterns...
- Claude Code vs Cursor
Claude Code vs Cursor is a comparison of two tools that approach the same problem from fundamentally different interfaces. Claude Code is, in Anthropic's words, "an agentic coding tool that reads...