I'm Andrew and I empower others through quality software.

I aim to make software development more accessible to a wider audience. I accomplish this primarily through mentorship, OSS, and sharing my experiences.

Growth mindset: Be willing to begin again. Empty your cup. Embrace growth opportunities.

Cultivate community: strive to create safe environments and empower everyone to bring their authentic self to the table.

Honesty: Be honest and transparent.

Simplicity: Favor simple solutions over easy ones.

I love working on my home ops project and an open-source, self-hosted application for game management, Playnite Web. Applied design principles and patterns. Gaming; mostly PC, some PlayStation. Elixir and functional programming. Science and philosophy. Mentorship and teaching technical concepts.

Feel free to ask me about simple and easy, any of my interests, or just to talk tech. I'm always seeking individuals with a passion to learn more improve their craft.

• Go terminal-only, with vim as my driving editor
• Explore how AI fits into my everyday developer workflows

My site has a read-only MCP server at https://andrew.codes/mcp. There is no sign-in and nothing it can change. It answers from the same static files the site already publishes (/agent/*.json and the markdown copies of each post), so it only ever says what the site says. It never returns an email, phone number, or street address.

Tools:

• get_profile: who I am, where I am (city only), what I know, and my public links
• search_posts: find posts by query, category, tag, company, or project
• get_post: one post as markdown, by slug
• get_resume: my resume, or just the experience, skills, or education section
• list_recommendations: what colleagues wrote about me, optionally for one company
• list_projects: what I have built, and the technologies I use, by company or topic

The same content is also available as resources: site://profile, site://resume, site://recommendations, site://projects, site://posts, and site://posts/{slug}.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http andrew-codes https://andrew.codes/mcp

Cursor: add this to .cursor/mcp.json (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "andrew-codes": {
      "url": "https://andrew.codes/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop: add this to claude_desktop_config.json, which bridges to the remote server with mcp-remote:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "andrew-codes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["mcp-remote", "https://andrew.codes/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Any other MCP client that speaks streamable HTTP can use the same URL. To poke at it by hand, run npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector@latest and connect to it.

Browsers that support WebMCP also get the same six tools while the site is open. WebMCP is an early draft, so the site registers them only when the browser offers it and does nothing otherwise.

The server lives in worker/src/mcp.ts and the tool logic in app/libs/agent/agent-tools.ts. To run it locally, build the site first (yarn build), then run yarn wrangler dev and use http://localhost:8787/mcp. Under Yarn PnP, wrangler also needs X_LOCAL_EXPLORER=false to start.

I do not favor unexpected phone calls. I prefer to chat in public forums, so information can be more easily shared. I strive to be available to answer questions, pair program, etc.

My site - Resume - LinkedIn