I'm a principal engineer at Passenger. I have a background in PHP but my work now spans everything from native mobile, AI, security and compliance.

You can read my blog at dave.engineer, which covers topics like cognitive science, AI, leadership and coding.

📦 Pandora
Powerful coding companion ChatGPT plugin and API: edit local files, run commands, manage Docker.

📎🟢 Clipea
Like Clippy but for the CLI. A blazing fast AI helper for your command line.

🌳 Tree of Thought Prompting
Experiments and a write up of a new prompting technique for Large Language Models like ChatGPT.

🤖 Hubcap
AI agent in just 25 lines of code. It can read your code and fix your bugs or make API requests and process results, all autonomously.

• 😵‍💫 Emoji Chaos! - a very silly VR team quiz game: point your phone at different emoji to select the right answer.
• 🔏 XML Data Integrity Checksum (XDIC) - a standard for embedding checksums in XML files.
• ⌨️ Querty Braille - use a normal keyboard to type Braille characters.
• 🫂 PHP-FIG PSR-8 - the first (and maybe only) implementation of PSR-8.
• 🧬 Conway's Game of Life in JS - a JavaScript canvas implementation of Conway's cellular autonoma.

Post-Quantum Cryptography: It’s already here and it’s not as scary as it sounds
A beginner’s guide to building Quantum Computers, breaking encryption, and stopping quantum hackers
2023-11-11

Amazingly Alarming Autonomous AI Agents
Let’s see if we can make our own autonomous AI agent in 25 lines of code…
2023-08-14

Making Pandora, a super-charged coding plugin for ChatGPT
Pandora lets ChatGPT access the internet, code in any language, access local files and install any software.
2023-08-04

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast
Fostering an environment where mistakes are less likely
2023-03-16

How the inevitable cycle of industrialization can be used to form a technology strategy
Clickbait title: What you think you know about technology strategy is all wrong.
2022-03-31