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Chris Chabot

Building developer ecosystems.
One API at a time.

$ experience --years

20+ years in tech • Google • Twitter • Amazon • Apache

$ focus --current

Developer Relations • Web3 • Open Source • AI

$ cat about.md $ ls projects/

bash ~/highlights.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Career highlights

echo "Head of DevRel @ Mysten Labs"

echo "Head of DevRel @ Twitter"

echo "Founding member of Google+"

echo "OpenSocial spec author"

echo "Apache Shindig PMC"

$ ls -la ./blog --recent

Latest thoughts and writings

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📄 coding-agent.md 5 min read

# Jan 3, 2026

Building a Coding Agent from Scratch

What happens when you stop using AI coding tools and start building one? A deep dive into the architecture of autonomous software agents.

--ai --agents --typescript --anthropic --developer-tools

$ cat coding-agent.md →

📄 claude-oauth-detective-story.md 5 min read

# Jan 3, 2026

The Case of the Forbidden System Prompt

How a single sentence—precisely 57 characters—stood between a working OAuth flow and the infuriating message 'This credential is only authorized for use with Claude Code.'

--ai --oauth --authentication --debugging --anthropic

$ cat claude-oauth-detective-story.md →

📄 the-wire.md 5 min read

# Jan 3, 2026

The Wire: Building a Twitter Clone at the Edge

How Cloudflare's edge primitives turn the seemingly impossible—a global social network running without traditional servers—into something approaching inevitable.

--cloudflare --typescript --distributed-systems --durable-objects --edge-computing

$ cat the-wire.md →

📄 traintracker.md 5 min read

# Jan 3, 2026

Watching Britain Move: Building a Real-Time Train Tracker

What happens when you pipe Network Rail's firehose of train data into a browser? A meditation on real-time systems and the hypnotic beauty of transit visualization.

--data-visualization --real-time --typescript --maplibre --transit

$ cat traintracker.md →

📄 dialog-editor.md 5 min read

# Dec 14, 2025

What makes a good dialog editor for voice?

Exploring the design choices that make dialog iteration faster, clearer, and more pleasant for creators

--voice --elevenlabs --developer-tools --open-source

$ cat dialog-editor.md →

📄 developer-program-measurement.md 5 min read

# Dec 11, 2025

Measuring what matters in DevRel

Developer Relations has a metrics problem. Not a shortage of them—we've got GitHub stars and Discord members galore. The problem is none of them actually mean anything.

--devrel --metrics --developer-experience --strategy

$ cat developer-program-measurement.md →

$ ./connect.sh

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