About the author
Ken W Alger
@kenwalger
Developer educator and advocate who still ships code. 15 years teaching developers at MongoDB, Heroku, Cisco, and Treehouse. Now writing about AI-assisted development, agent memory, and provenance.
Oregon
Apr 14
The Backyard Quarry, Part 5: Digital Twins for Physical Objects
In Part 5 of the Backyard Quarry series, the project finally starts to connect to a bigger idea: digital twins.
Apr 7
The Backyard Quarry, Part 4: Searching a Pile of Rocks
By this point, the Backyard Quarry has a schema, a capture process, and a growing collection of...
Apr 6
Building Your First MCP Server: TypeScript vs. Python
The 5-Minute "Hello World" Comparison We’ve spent the last month talking about the End of Glue Code...
Apr 2
The Final Boss: Enterprise Governance & Scalability
How do you scale AI agents without losing control? Transition from 'it works on my machine' to enterprise-grade governance. Explore the AI Mesh architecture using Oracle 26ai, RLS, and immutable audit trails.
Mar 31
The Backyard Quarry, Part 3: Capturing the Physical World
This post looks at what it actually takes to turn physical objects into usable data.
Mar 30
The Ink, The Iron, and the Algorithm: Why I Build for Truth
This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience In the world of rare and...
Mar 28
From Cloud to Laptop: Running MCP Agents with Small Language Models
Large Models Build Systems. Small Models Run Them. For most developers, modern AI systems...
Mar 26
The Backyard Quarry, Part 2: Designing a Schema for Physical Objects
In the first post of this series we set the stage for the Backyard Quarry project. Once you decide...
Mar 19
The Backyard Quarry: Turning Rocks Into Data
Another round of tech layoffs rolled through the industry recently, and I was one of the people...
Mar 19
The Forensic Team: Architecting Multi-Agent Handoffs with MCP
Stop building monolithic agents. Learn how to architect a specialized 'Forensic Team' using a Python Supervisor and a TypeScript MCP Server. A masterclass in multi-agent orchestration and functional specialization.
Mar 9
The End of Glue Code: Why MCP Is the USB-C Moment for AI Systems
Stop hard-coding AI integrations. Learn how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) replaces brittle M x N glue code with a scalable, protocol-driven architecture.
Mar 6
Archival Intelligence: A Forensic Rare Book Auditor
🔍 Archival Intelligence: A Forensic Rare Book Auditor This is a submission for the Notion...