What the Heck?

I’m Mei, a 12-year software dev and ex-engineering director turned stay-at-home mom. After a decade of building systems in tech, I now run experiments in raising a tech-native kid.

It started when my then-2-year-old and I made a red car game with Claude. It took a couple prompts and eight minutes to change his frame from consumer to creator. He’s shipped many more games since and now we ask “what should we make today?” instead of “what’s new on YouTube?”

Raising Pixels is where I document what I’m learning: computational thinking for tiny humans, AI as a creative collaborator, and why I’m teaching my son to build—not to code.

I’m also writing a book: 12 Weeks of Tech Projects for Toddlers. Subscribe to get the first chapter free when it’s ready!

Have questions? Made something with your kid? Reply to any post. My kid and I read everything (though he’s mostly interested in whether you made any vehicle games).

You can play all my kid’s games here (and hopefully inspire some of your own!): madladstudios.com

Find me: @meimakes on 𝕏