Artificial Intelligence • Sep 25, 2026 How AI Let a Non-Technical Delivery Lead Work in the Data Layer As a delivery lead, data-layer troubleshooting has historically been developer work. AI changed that for me in one engagement this year.
Extracurricular Activities • Sep 24, 2026 Old Capacitors, New Problems: Booting an Apple IIe for the First Time in 30+ Years I was living my vintage tech dream, and after a few minutes of doing the “Intro to Apple” program, I heard a loud pop and saw smoke.
AI for Developers • Sep 23, 2026 My First Agentic Project: The Blank Page Was the Hardest Part I expected my first project using agentic development to feel smooth and easy. But when I started, I had more questions than answers.
Development • Sep 22, 2026 What a Write-Only Architecture Bought Our Health App Our health app is write-only. It pushes data out and never reads back, which made the security review trivial and the web port nearly free.
Development Practices • Sep 21, 2026 Concurrency Control: Your Aggregate Is Single-Threaded. Your Cluster Isn’t. Concurrency control comes in two kinds, and most distributed-systems failures are a misassignment between them.
AI for Developers • Sep 20, 2026 Don’t Stick a Laser In Your Face (A Parable): Power Tools & Ignorance Power tools are dangerous and also incredibly beneficial in specific contexts, similar to the current paradigm of AI use.
AI for Developers • Sep 19, 2026 Debugging in My First Language: A Bilingual Developer’s Accidental Discovery While debugging, my head started to get fuzzy, and I typed, “No entiendo” ("I don’t understand" in Spanish). Codex responded in Spanish too.
Development Practices • Sep 18, 2026 Use Curiosity, Craft, and Care to Decide What AI Should Write While working with a small team during an RDP engagement, I started paying attention to how much authorship we give AI over each artifact.
The Software Life • Sep 17, 2026 Build Trust on a Short Software Project Here's what I learned from being on a short software development project with 3 weeks to produce an ambitious set of goals.
Developer Tools • Sep 16, 2026 Test GitHub Actions Locally with Act I find Nektos repo for act incredibly helpful. Essentially, act is a way to run your GitHub Actions locally using Docker.
AI for Developers • Sep 15, 2026 Your Coding Agent Should be in Jail. Here’s Why and How. The more useful coding agents become, the more I start thinking about what the coding agent can reach. My answer: give Codex its own jail.
Development Practices • Sep 14, 2026 2 Changes Made Our Azure Durable Functions 3X Faster Two changes, 3x faster. The real lesson was that Durable fan-out is a two-part switch that only works when you flip both halves.
