// about
The hand at the wheel.
Mark D'Adamo — @stormbreaker9000 — is a developer based in western Canada. By day, Next.js applications and Databricks data pipelines; by evening, Claude plugin tooling and developer infrastructure.
This site is where the field notes live. Posts cover the actual work: what broke, what fixed it, what I'd do differently. No frameworks-as-religion takes, no hot-take harvest — just logbook entries from someone who'd rather ship than speculate.
// now
Currently building out the Claude Code plugins ecosystem and shipping the next round of infrastructure posts. Next.js pays for the coffee.
// the long way here
Software Engineering, University of Calgary.
Building video games in my parents' basement. Not a detour, it turns out.
Started the day job — Next.js applications and Databricks data pipelines. Still there.
First posts. One of them was an MCP server for Godot — the games came back, wearing a different hat.
Rebuilt this site from scratch. Next.js 16, MDX, a hand-stitched design system.
Still shipping — plugins, infrastructure posts, and whatever the day job breaks next.
// writing about
AI tooling & the Claude ecosystem
Plugin development, MCP servers, and agentic workflows. The ecosystem is new enough that most of it is still being figured out in public.
Web craft & design
Next.js, design systems, editorial type. This site is as much a project in this category as it is a writing platform.
// tools
Languages — live from GitHub
And the rest
// projects
// this site
Built on Next.js 16 with MDX for content. The theme system is hand-stitched — no component library, just CSS custom properties and careful typographic choices. Cover art is generated through a house-style pipeline; the hero artwork is original, painted in a pirate-cove daydream. Source is on GitHub.
// find me