Don MacKinnon
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Don MacKinnon
@donmackinnon.dev
CTO/Co-Founder @ https://searchcraft.io
Writing a lot of #rustlang & #typescript code these days.

Living the 303 🏔️ CO
Married, dad, Scottish-Korean contradiction, motorcyclist, synth nerd, Ferrari #F1 fan #GenX
Opinions are my own
Hey folks!
Join me on Tuesday, Oct 28th at the DenverScript Meetup where I present my talk, "No Code, Just Queries"
I'll build a full-stack application live with sub-millisecond fuzzy queries over a large dataset built using only LLM prompts. www.meetup.com/denverscript...
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Relevant:
October 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A new contender has entered the chat
June 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Just dropped the Searchcraft API PHP client! It's available for install via Composer.

The package is Apache 2 licensed and the source is available at github.com/searchcraft-...

#PHP #search #DeveloperTools #OpenSource
June 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Alright, my fate is in your hands. Which should I attempt to eat? Reply with your choice.
June 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Make the developer experience good". The full episode is up on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts www.causeofakind.com/strictly-fro...
June 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
FE devs we just launched a new open-source Vite + React template that makes it easy to integrate search into any web app using Searchcraft!
github.com/searchcraft-...
Sign up at Searchcraft.io (free)
Plug in your API key and start building!

We’d love your feedback: PRs, issues, and stars welcome
May 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Great time last night at Devs Night Out with @wesbos.com and crew! The live code debugging and CSS Battle were hilariously entertaining to watch. The perfectionist is me is still wondering what property change could have been made to push that 99.9% match to 100%.
May 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Smuggled this back from a trip to Houston. Southerners you know what this means.
May 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
That’s a wrap on Boulder Startup Week 2025! Had some great conversations with folks, it’s been a busy week!
May 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Come meet the Searchcraft crew at the boulderstartupweek.com Startup Fair! Wednesday, May 14th from 1pm - 4pm.

Find out how Searchcraft enables product teams to build faster, spend less, and ship more!

#devtools #developers #ai #boulderstartupweek
May 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Big announcement folks!

We've decided to make Searchcraft Core available for download via Docker!

Now you can install it yourself and try it out.

If you have questions feel free to hop into our community Discord, we'd love to hear about what you building. hub.docker.com/r/searchcraf...
May 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today is officially the 1yr anniversary of Searchcraft existing as a company! We started building back in 2021 but May of 2024 is when we officially formed the company and started on the path towards fundraising and building full-time. The year has been packed, excited to see what the future holds
May 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This inspired confidence 😬
March 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Your outie knows better than to use legacy search tools
February 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
One of my co-workers found this....I do not run a staffing company or live in Australia 😂
February 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
As one of the bosses here I get to subject the office to my musical tastes. Yesterday was Aphex Twin, today:
January 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A test run of our Searchcraft merch came in!
January 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Made the fam some tteokguk for the New Year
January 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Made some savory beef pies for our holiday feast. Turned out alright, my first time making them
December 26, 2024 at 4:00 AM
That feeling when CDK deploy just sits like this for 20 minutes only to fail
December 18, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Trees
December 7, 2024 at 3:20 PM
November 23, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Just finished writing the Searchcraft pull ingestion feed parser #rustlang
November 20, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Age yourself with your first computer.
November 18, 2024 at 4:33 AM