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I don't remember if I've mentioned this or not on the blog, and it's relevant to this post, so I'll say it again just in case. I have coffee every Tuesday morning with four guys in their seventies. I'm the "kid" in the group because I'm only fifty-one. We talk...
I posted this in Slack at work on Friday and I'm feeling it today, so you're getting it too. I don't know why I feel compelled to share it with you. I don't know why I felt compelled to share it at work, but I haven't talked about this with...
Back in January, not long after I moved this blog, I wrote up my post about my intentions for 2026. I was thinking about it this morning, and since it's almost June and that means we're almost halfway through the year, I figured it was about time to check in...
I woke up early, and there must have been something a little extra in my coffee this morning because I decided that today was the day that Claude Code and I would redesign my blog. Here's what it looked like before... boring, just like everything else, right? And well, I...
I rage quit LinkedIn about a week ago in a post about the whole Moltbook nonsense. To save you having to go to LinkedIn, here's what I said: The whole Moltbook farce, the engagement trap, the outright lies, and that literally every suggested post on LinkedIn for the past three...
This made me cry in my coffee. If you don't want to read it, it's basically a letter to senior engineers just like me about AI coding tools, and how they're just a fact of life now. He's right. As much as I, or anyone else wants to fight, at...
This blog is almost twenty six years old (here's the first post from July of 2000). Just like me, it's gone through a lot of changes. It started on Blogger, moved to Movable Type, where I think I had to move it between hosts a couple of times, and then...
I'm stealing my theme for 2026 from The Mountain Goats: "I'm gonna make it through this year if it kills me." I've been trying to get healthier for a while now, and just this week, as winter is at its metaphorical and actual darkest, I hit a goal I thought...
I have a draft post all about 2025, but you know what? Fuck 2025. It was a complicated year and I'm tired of thinking about it. I'd rather listen to music, hang out with friends and get ready to vote against every Republican I can for as long as I...
The layoffs in tech continue unabated. I realized that there's no one place where I've got all of the things I've written about them collected in one place (and I don't like Wordpress' tags page). So, here they all are, plus one bonus one about all of the ways that...