I’m Micah Cook, a developer and enjoyer of articles.

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NBA Today Dashboard

For this weekend’s project, I made an app that displays a minimal dashboard of the top teams and key matchups in the NBA. The purpose of the project was to mess around with creating applications...

AI in FPS gaming cheats

Article: AI cheats: Why you didn’t notice your teammate was cheating by Niila Viinamäki

LLM Basics: Context Windows & Tokens

With all the hype around the release of Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model, I wanted to refresh my knowledge of two core concepts that come up frequently: context windows and tokens.

React components = hooks (sort of)

Article link: https://www.bbss.dev/posts/sparkling-hooks by Slava Knyazev. The main idea is that React components that return JSX can be deconstructed into “headless component” hooks, where the head...

Bookmarklet to remove LinkedIn's 'Suggested' posts

I recently learned what a bookmarklet is and decided to make one to remove LinkedIn’s “Suggested” posts that are often very clickbait-y. A bookmarklet is a bookmark that executes a JavaScript code...

How I use LLMs

Simon Willison’s recent post “Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code” has been very helpful, and I wanted to briefly talk about the biggest takeaways that have helped me.

Building this blog site

For my first “real” blog post, what would be better than writing about the little journey of developing this very blog site?

First blog post

What’s up world! Giving the blog a spin, let’s see how this works!