• Gradual AI Transition

    Posted on June 21, 2026

    The use of AI across the company I’m working with is very uneven. There are some folks who use it constantly every day, and there are plenty of folks who I’m pretty sure have never even given it a serious try. I’m in the former group. I had to hop... [Read More]

  • Leadership Without Being the Boss

    Posted on June 13, 2026

    I used to tell people that I was happy to help lead an effort, I just didn’t want to be in charge. Sometimes that would confuse people and it would take a while to explain. A long time ago a friend drew me a picture like this: [Read More]

  • The Good Kind of Political

    Posted on April 5, 2026

    As a technical person I’ve always had a pretty immediate negative reaction to anything “political”. I would just think of the negative aspects of a political work environment. Things like decisions being made based on who someone knows instead of the merit of an idea, and people driving projects based... [Read More]

  • Horsepower and Torque

    Posted on March 20, 2026

    When I’m getting involved with something new I ask myself “does this need more horsepower or more torque”? I’m sure other people have different terms for the same set of considerations, but that comparison has worked well for me. Is the team already locked into something and cranking along well?... [Read More]

  • Startup Superpowers

    Posted on March 14, 2026

    I did something this year that I thought might never happen again during my career. I got a “normal job”. I’ve been working exclusively on startups for at least the last 25 years. With the few exceptions being times when we’ve sold a project to a larger organization and I... [Read More]

  • Modern RSS Usage

    Posted on January 5, 2026

    There used to be a lot of attention and development focused on RSS, a format meant to make it easy for users to subscribe to updates from a site and merge multiple subscriptions into a personal news site. There were all kinds of homepage creators and news readers that ingested... [Read More]

  • Builder Research - XMTP

    Posted on November 20, 2025

    I ran across XMTP a few times while I was poking around with other services. But I had pushed it off till later. It wasn’t core to what I was looking at. But then while I was playing around with Paragraph I saw somewhere XMTP delivery was an option for... [Read More]

  • Builder Research - Basic Attention Token

    Posted on November 6, 2025

    I’ve recently started getting back into some blockchain development. A part of that has been digging into some projects to figure out where I might be able to help out, and just sharpening up my analysis when it comes to crypto projects. A vast majority of the info you find... [Read More]

  • Google Oauth Tokens in Golang

    Posted on October 23, 2020

    I’m pretty sure I’ve run into this before and worked through it. But for some reason my searches didn’t land on something that clicked till I was a few iterations in. So I’m putting down a simple example so that when I search for it next time I’ll find it…... [Read More]

  • Service Container Manipulation

    Posted on September 24, 2020

    The Github actions functionality has been pretty spectacular, in particular service containers for setting up a test environment. One bit of annoyance though can be trying to do setup on a container. When the container gets created the repo hasn’t been checked out yet. So I can’t do the normal... [Read More]