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The Most Valuable Thing I Found in Tech Wasn't an Opportunity

Human connection over career optimization

The Most Valuable Thing I Found in Tech Wasn't an Opportunity

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The 'Prompt' Is Not a Skill — And We Need to Stop Pretending

Judgment over conversational inputs

The 'Prompt' Is Not a Skill — And We Need to Stop Pretending

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The Code Works. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The Code Works. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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What are your Goals for the week? #182

Rainy ren faire cleanup and job search focus

What are your Goals for the week? #182

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The Loop Is Not the Product

AI compute costs vs human labor

The Loop Is Not the Product

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Who's Going To RubyConf 2026?

Who's Going To RubyConf 2026?

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I created two ghosts during lunch. The AI gave one a job offer.

I created two ghosts during lunch. The AI gave one a job offer.

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Great Stack to Doesn't Work #7 — Observability: "400 Dashboards, Zero Insight"

Great Stack to Doesn't Work #7 — Observability: "400 Dashboards, Zero Insight"

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You Cannot Retroactively Capture AI Code Provenance. Here Is What You Lose Every Day You Wait.

You Cannot Retroactively Capture AI Code Provenance. Here Is What You Lose Every Day You Wait.

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DOS Development in the Early Days: What It Was Actually Like to Ship Software on 640KB

DOS Development in the Early Days: What It Was Actually Like to Ship Software on 640KB

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Scarab Field Test #021 — pnpm Self-Upgrade No-Manifest Boundary

Scarab Field Test #021 — pnpm Self-Upgrade No-Manifest Boundary

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My company packaged 12 years of my experience into an AI Skill, then laid me off. When it crashed, the CTO called at 5x my salary.

Static AI failing in dynamic systems

My company packaged 12 years of my experience into an AI Skill, then laid me off. When it crashed, the CTO called at 5x my salary.

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Am I Reinventing the Wheel? Building a Company's AI Brain

Am I Reinventing the Wheel? Building a Company's AI Brain

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Field Test #020b — Next.js Root Ownership Refinement

Field Test #020b — Next.js Root Ownership Refinement

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"A reality was not given to us": the web that is coming does not exist yet — an agent will build it for you

"A reality was not given to us": the web that is coming does not exist yet — an agent will build it for you

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