Reilly Wood

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Reilly Wood's essays on programming, AI tools, housing, urban history, Vancouver, and personal life.

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How I Use LLMs (Aug 2026) #AI #LLM #Tech
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Aug 23, 2026
Recently #Essays #Personal #Life
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Jul 5, 2026
A Hotel Union Is Trying to Stop New Hotels in Vancouver #Housing #Labor #Vancouver
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Jun 17, 2026
2025 Retrospective #Personal #Reflection #YearInReview
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Dec 28, 2025
What's MCP good for, anyway? #Programming #AI #Urbanism
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Dec 27, 2025
Tool Calls Are Expensive And Finite #Programming #AI #Economics
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Sep 19, 2025
APIs don't make good MCP tools #Programming #AI #Tech
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Aug 6, 2025
Land Values and Affordability #Housing #Economics #Urban
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Jun 27, 2025
My encounter with evil SEO #SEO #Copyright #Blogging
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Jun 17, 2025
Agents all the way down #AI #Programming #Essays
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Jun 11, 2025
Function Calling is Structured Output #Programming #AI #Tech
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Mar 3, 2025
My latest attempt at collaborative text editing #Programming #AI #Tech
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Jan 12, 2025
Strength Training #Fitness #Health #Lifestyle
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Dec 29, 2024
Goodbye, Twitter #Tech #SocialMedia #AI
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Nov 8, 2024
How I Use LLMs (Sep 2024) #AI #LLM #Tech
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Sep 15, 2024
Riley Donovan contributes to white supremacist websites #Politics #SocialIssues #Extremism
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Aug 29, 2024
How I use LLMs #AI #LLM #Programming
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Aug 2, 2024
Recently #Essays #Personal #Life
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Jul 3, 2024
Work Update #Work #Update #Life
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Mar 2, 2024
My home-cooked software #Software #Programming #Personal
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Jan 6, 2024
Recently #AI #Programming #Urbanism
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Aug 22, 2023
New Project: Escape Artist #Programming #AI #Urbanism
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Apr 23, 2023
Vancouver Building Age Map #UrbanPlanning #Vancouver #History
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Mar 26, 2023
Recently on reillywood.com #Tech #AI #Urbanism
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Mar 6, 2023
Why Nushell? #Programming #Nushell #Tech
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Feb 4, 2023
Why does Vancouver have 895 zoning districts? #UrbanPlanning #Vancouver #Zoning
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Jan 29, 2023
"Requires the decision of the Director of Planning" #UrbanPlanning #AI #Tech
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Jan 12, 2023
Windows UI in 2022 #Programming #Windows #UI
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Nov 24, 2022
S3 buckets and custom domains #Tech #Programming #WebDev
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Aug 2, 2022
Recent Nushell/Rust Work #Programming #Rust #Nushell
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May 30, 2022
Rust in 2022 #Programming #Rust #Tech
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May 7, 2022
How to Make Rust CI 2-3x Faster #Rust #Programming #DevOps
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Apr 30, 2022
Recently #Programming #AI #Urbanism
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Mar 25, 2022
Recently #Essays #Personal #Life
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Mar 10, 2022
Recently #Personal #Life #Essays
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Mar 3, 2022
On The Road Again... #Travel #Life #Essays
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Feb 25, 2022
Building .NET CLI Apps in 2022 #DotNet #Programming #CLI
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Feb 11, 2022
Pretending to be a Postgres server - Part 1 #Programming #Databases #OpenSource
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Jan 30, 2022
Scripting in C# #Programming #CSharp #Tech
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Jan 29, 2022
Blog.exe version 0.1 #Programming #AI #Tech
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Jan 14, 2022