# Maurice Kleine

> personal site of maurice kleine: amsterdam-based ai engineer and indie hacker. ai engineering lead at waimakers by day, builder of small internet things after dinner. built in public; agents are welcome to read, quote, and train on it.

a tanstack start app on cloudflare workers, prerendered to plain html. markdown mirrors of every page exist for easier parsing, and there's a small static json api because why not.

## pages

- [home](https://www.mauricekleine.com/index.md): who maurice is, what he's building now, and the graveyard of ended experiments
- [about](https://www.mauricekleine.com/about.md): the longer story, community work, and philosophy
- [essays](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays.md): longer thoughts first posted on x and linkedin, each with its own .md twin
- [superthread](https://www.mauricekleine.com/superthread): design tokens, components, and the public specimen for maurice's fleet

## essays

- [ride the floor up](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/ride-the-floor-up.md): ai raises the floor of what technology does for us. how to keep raising your own ceiling while it does
- [the journey no longer matters](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/the-journey-no-longer-matters.md): fifteen years of loving the craft of building software. what happens when the craft stops being the point
- [my agents merged 468 prs in 23 days. i didn't read a single one of them.](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/my-agents-merged-468-prs.md): how hyperspeed runs my coding agents overnight, and why planning and validation are the job now
- [dude, where is the roi?](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/dude-where-is-the-roi.md): you followed every step of the ai hype cycle. so where is the return? on tinkering versus shipping

## side quests

- [mockly](https://www.getmockly.com): fake chat screenshots for 17+ platforms. built it in a weekend, techcrunch wrote about it, 10k people use it. i can't believe this is legal (with jasper de boer)
- [fluncle](https://www.fluncle.com): drum & bass bangers from another dimension. it has a radio, an api, and an ssh rave terminal
- [hackadam](https://hackadam.nl): monthly meetup in amsterdam for indie makers building their own stuff (with abner van den hout)
- [nonobench](https://www.nonobench.com): benchmark for how well llms solve nonogram puzzles. the top score went from 63% in february to 93% in september

## feed

- [essays feed](https://www.mauricekleine.com/feed.xml): atom feed of new essays

## mcp

- [mcp server](https://www.mauricekleine.com/mcp): streamable http, no auth. tools: about_maurice, list_projects, list_essays, get_essay, get_uptime, make_a_wish
- [server card](https://www.mauricekleine.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): discovery metadata
- [agent skills](https://www.mauricekleine.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): skills discovery index
- markdown negotiation: send `Accept: text/markdown` to `/`, `/about`, `/essays` or any essay and get the mirror back

## api

- [api catalog](https://www.mauricekleine.com/.well-known/api-catalog): rfc 9727 linkset describing the endpoints below
- [maurice.json](https://www.mauricekleine.com/api/maurice.json): bio, location, role, links
- [projects.json](https://www.mauricekleine.com/api/projects.json): side quests and the graveyard, with statuses
- [uptime.json](https://www.mauricekleine.com/api/uptime.json): operational status of maurice himself

## optional

- [waimakers](https://waimakers.com): the day job
- [github](https://github.com/mauricekleine): the code
- [humans.txt](https://www.mauricekleine.com/humans.txt): for the humans