We had an interesting issue at work this past week. One of the developers flagged a problem that seemed to be network related. They had done all of the legwork to track it down, had some AI assista...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 co...

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 exce...

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 new...

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 Pa...

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 an...

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 e...