Colton Padden's: Blog & Experiments

Scaling documentation without scaling your team: Dagster’s AI-powered strategy

ExternalDec 16, 2025

How smart information architecture and AI assistants help a small team answer 16,000 community questions a month.

Using Codex for education at Dagster Labs

ExternalOct 27, 2025

How we structure docs so AI tools can reason with them effectively.

An evolution of data engineering

With the advancements of LLM-based tooling, the responsibilities (and maybe even the title!) of data engineers are changing.

tabs.garden

tabs.garden

A simple site for guitar tabs

Conway

Conway

Conway's game of life written in vanilla Javascript

wm.spoon

wm.spoon

Window manager for Hammer Spoon written in Lua

Metronome

Metronome

A simple metronome for tracking tempo in the browser

Conjugations

Conjugations

Search and explore the conjugations of 1000 French verbs

Mountains

Mountains

Visualize a gradient of colored waves generated with Perlin noise

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