Chris Dolphin | Creative Developer & Architect
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The curriculum
for builders.

Sessions that cover building and scaling your project, working through a hard software problem, or figuring out which AI tools fit your workflow. Let's work through it together.

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Frontend / UX

Modern frontend architecture, component libraries, design systems, and patterns that scale as your codebase grows. Pick a topic that matches where you are, or start with a discovery call to find the right entry point.

Courses

Building UI components in isolation, documenting them as you go, and making them genuinely reusable across projects.

  • Storybook setup & integration
  • Writing stories that double as docs
  • Visual regression & interaction testing
  • Sharing components across teams

AI Tooling

These sessions come from hands-on work with the modern tooling stack — Cursor, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Paperclip — focused on what actually holds up. Pick a topic that matches where you are, or start with a discovery call to find the right entry point.

Courses

Driving AI coding from the terminal — agentic workflows, long-running tasks, and shell-native development.

  • Claude Code installation & setup
  • Agentic vs. chat-style workflows
  • Custom slash commands & skills
  • MCP servers & tool extensions

Enterprise

The hardest problems are the ones that require a team to solve. These sessions come from hands-on work with the modern stacks — GitLab, Netlify, Tailscale, Storybook — focused on what actually holds up.

Courses

Using GitLab as more than a Git host — issues, merge requests, CI/CD, and wiring up your entire development workflow.

  • Issue & merge request workflows
  • GitLab CI/CD configuration
  • Container registry & package management
  • Self-hosted vs. SaaS tradeoffs