Idea concept: March 4th, 2024 at 4:41pm CST
Resume submitted: received confirmation email March 11, 2025 6:13pm CST
Hi Anthropic. This was built specifically for (and only shared with) you. I've spent a decade with software, collaborating directly with tech- and non-technical founders, UI/UX, devs, and many more to solve problems and build solutions. While I've built low-code automations, can have conversations, and have technical knowledge, my resume and GitHub won't show much past, "Hello World!" From my research, Anthropic appreciates technical capabilities and urgency with rapid internal prototyping. So, to align with the team, I'm using this as a demonstration project for real-/passtime work & more technical learning. Thank you for your considerations.
This is my attempt to:
- Express shared values
- Showcase learning speed and capabilities under ambiguity
- Gain trust & confidence. I do whatever it takes to succeed
Selected Projects
Simply deployed my first Next.js app via Vercel to hosted domain. Moving on to v2 quickly.
~42 hours spent on project to-date. (I understand time is not the best metric to measure with software, but this is provided just to give an idea of how long it's taken for me to go from never deploying code to learning and prototyping the different technical concepts below)
Learning Snapshots
Backlog: Ideating Update 10
The deployment objective is complete. I will now take a step back from the demonstration of quickly learning technical implementation details to: 1.) Discuss the importance of AI safety and ethics 2.) Then begin from further back to provide evidence of deeper understanding of product strategy 3.) Display experience abstract and concrete examples of managing complex systems and ambiguity
WIP: Update 9
Quickly add past product and startup experience and move on to additional critical demonstrations
Update 8: Update styling and better component comprehension
Updated motion-primitive animations under the Selected Projects section to accept image and/or video formats. Added title, image, link, and description to v1 site. Updated phone number in Header to include sms: and tel: icons and functionality. Threw in some Anthropic accent colors but didn't change the entire color palette after discussing with Claude that it would probably raise some ethical concerns with trademark/brand identity and potential confusion. Completely understandable
Update 7: Claude Code
On Windows PC today, so setup WSL. Generated Anthropic API key and setup Claude Code. Holding off on integrating into VS Code. Made first changes with Claude Code: changed constants, variables, text, commented out the blog and committed updates
Update 6: When to take a breather
Ran into some npm Git, Next.js, command-line and environment file issues while trying to setup MongoDB with a v3. Since a database isn't critical right now, decided to abandon and overwrite v2. Wanted at least a small win, so completed some easier tasks with updating favicon, and hosting SVG icons while custom developing an email sig with HTML
Update 5: Folders files, and functions
Reviewed pages, public, styles, components, package.json and navigated making updates to mainly HTML/CSS. Learning more about Next.js and Tailwind. Changed some initial text from boilerplate. Added Anthropic's mission to footer
Update 4: Packages and dependencies
Learned difference between local and global packages. Resolved depency issues
Update 3: Git workflow
Moved static site to new v1 Vercel project and created v1 branch in GitHub to keep versioning records. Kept main branch for most updated project. Learned clone, add, commmit, push flow for v2 on Vercel and GitHub
Update 2: Email forwarding
Set ImprovMX & added SPF records in GoDaddy to setup Gmail's SMTP for personal domain
Update 1: Setup, local deployment, and hosting
Setup domain via Cloudflare, deployed a boilerplate static project via Vercel, updated DNS and verified SSL. Setup GitHub, installed Git, node.js, etc, and setup VS Code. Learned to deploy and test localhost
Connect
Feel free to contact me at chris@questioningrural.com