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I built a chatbot in React called Petty Bickerson, designed to argue with me. This serves as a proof of concept for creating an interactive chat interface. The real experiment focuses on where UX craft fits into this AI-driven world. The app was prompted into existence, but the character is mine—featuring five expression states, custom-animated in Rive, and capable of listening to user input live while firing triggers as you type. Petty Bickerson reacts to CAPS, interrupts apologies, and takes it personally when you agree with him. All of this was accomplished in under a day. I've long suspected that reactive characters could enhance AI chat engagement, but it's a dosage problem. At full intensity, it can become almost too annoying. Perhaps this concept would be better suited for voice chat? The intriguing design question has shifted from "can the interface react to you" to "how much should it?
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A developer tool that makes React Server Components easier to understand, debug, and teach. I built RSC Boundary, a dev-only overlay for Next.js App Router projects that visualizes where Server and Client Component boundaries exist at runtime. React Server Components are powerful, but the mental model is still hard for many teams. The biggest issue is visibility: once use client starts spreading through a tree, it becomes difficult to reason about what runs where, what ships to the browser, and why certain code behaves the way it does. RSC Boundary solves that by making those invisible boundaries visible. It helps developers: - See Server and Client Component boundaries directly in the app - Understand how use client affects the component tree - Debug unexpected client-side rendering behaviour - Onboard teammates faster to the Next.js App Router model - Build confidence when working with modern React architecture The project reflects the kind of work I enjoy most: turning complex developer experience problems into simple, useful tools that make teams faster and more confident.
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