Antivirus for What We Eat: How Jordan Robinson Turned Coding Into Food Safety
What if there was antivirus software for what we eat? Software architect Jordan Robinson, a father of two and former lead instructor with Cultivating Coders, shares how teaching kids to code and refurbishing thousands of donated computers led him to build Piece of Mind.
Anxin: Piece of Mind is an AI-powered food-safety platform. It helps families scan purchases and ingredients, monitor FDA recalls, track expiration dates, manage household food inventory, and review restaurant inspection information—bringing essential safety tools together in one convenient app.
Key Takeaways
- Creativity isn’t just for the arts. Technology becomes creative when you use it to solve a real problem, and the journey of building the solution is the creative part.
- Lego-style confidence. Building a computer piece by piece (drive, RAM, operating system) shows learners that tech that sounds hard is manageable. That first win builds the confidence to keep going.
- Lead with value, not “what’s in it for me.” Jordan reaches out to people with ideas that add value, and he’s heard “no” thousands of times for every “yes”. That approach brought thousands of donated Intel computers into his community, refurbished and given back.
- Close the “information gap.” Recalls and health inspections only help if you hear about them in time. His app scans several sources every 15 minutes, so families can avoid self-inflicted wounds like eating something recalled.
- AI is only as good as your prompts. His early AI-generated recipes were the worst in the world until the prompting was refined. The human behind the tool still matters.
Chapters:
- 00:03 – Introducing Jordan Robinson — Software Architect and Coding Educator
- 01:49 – Jordan’s early life and path into computer education
- 09:15 – How to Make Connections: Reaching Out to People and Organizations
- 14:48 – From Coding to Creating a Food-Safety App
- 23:05 – Dining Out Risks and Restaurant Health Inspections
- 28:11 – FIRE — Feedback, Inspiration, Resilience & Empowerment
* Website: PieceOfMind.fyi
* Instagram: @AnxinApp
* Facebook: AnxinApp
* X: @AnxinApp
* Threads: @AnxinApp
* Bluesky: @anxinapp.bsky.social
* YouTube: @AnxinApp
* TikTok: Anxin on TikTok
* LinkedIn: Jordan Robinson / Anxin Founder
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