26
Jan
2026
Design Up Front
Agents appreciate code hygeine.
dispatches
All Writing
16
Apr
2025
And Farms Grew Larger and Owners Fewer
What do you do when tractors come and steal your job?
17
Mar
2025
Day N
Day 1 is all about the thrills and motivations underlying technological innovation and business success. Day N is about thrill and motivation that comes with living each day well.
25
Nov
2024
Breaking to Building
AWS is all about Day 1. This is about Day 1, 2, 3, ...
05
Nov
2024
A Text Editor for the Brave
What is Neovim, and how to uninstall VSCode. If you don't write a lot of code, this probably won't make any sense.
13
Aug
2024
Breaking the AWS Account
A play by play of my time at Trusted Nurse Staffing.
17
Jul
2024
apple-music.nvim
Apple Music + Neovim. Ugly duckling music player meets chad text editor.
11
Jul
2024
Keep the Channel Open
Art, Oklahoma!, and a sense of inferiority.
03
Apr
2024
Division the Hard Way
A description and solution for one of the more creative software interview problems.
27
Feb
2024
Meditations
Reading 'Meditations' is kind of like Twitter except that in this world Twitter is good and it won't exist for a couple thousand years.
27
Jan
2024
A Midsummer Night's Dream
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a play about love and a scenario so hilarious it would be difficult not to be entertained...
22
Dec
2023
Academic Integrity
What does it mean to have academic integrity? And why I think schools have it wrong.
13
Dec
2023
To the Lighthouse
A beautiful (if not indecipherable) novel whose meaning flew far above my head when I read it.
08
Oct
2023
Musical Triumph
Some people are obviously passionate. I think an obviously passionate person dances in public, or shouts their ardor from rooftops. Then I am not obviously passionate.
30
Sep
2023
Economics of the College Meal Plan
We show that, unsurprisingly, college food is a scam.
22
Sep
2023
10
Sep
2023
Places on the Internet: XKCD
A site with little more than the imaginative comics of a Mr. Randall Munroe.
28
Aug
2023
Mr. President
Reflections on leadership in community college.
26
Aug
2023
Seasons of Superlatives
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
19
Aug
2023
Inspirations in Brutalism
Pardon my French, but this is a piece about 'Motherfucking Websites'.
13
Aug
2023
10
Aug
2023
08
Aug
2023
Blank Pages
The most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page.
07
Aug
2023
Simple?
KISS: Keep it simple, stupid.