After 8 years, I've realized that I don't really like jiu jitsu.

Software factories do fail, but it's not because our harnesses aren't good enough.

In business, life, and combat—those who adapt more quickly—win. Adaptation looks a bit like a loop—notice, adjust, measure, repeat.

For those tempted to quit

In response to a Hacker News comment, I've outlined a few ways that AI has become a part of my normal daily workflows.

Those who succeed in this post-AI age are going to be those who stick to timeless principles. You'll be just fine if you put people above profits and craft above code.

I used AI to avoid interacting with logitech's crappy software and copy my mouse settings.

Until we meet again, my son.

"What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."

I shipped a fully-featured game with Claude Code. After two weeks, I realized I hadn't read a line of code.

Subtract the LLM's "escape routes" to get novel results from your prompts.

When you ship at the speed of thought, thinking becomes more important, not less.

I've found that somewhere around 98% of all my procrastination comes from a lack of clarity about what exactly the end goal is and what the very first step towards that end goal should be.

Today I solved a weird issue with getting HighlightTrigger actions to work properly alongside iTerm2's Dynamic Profiles. This involved a surprising amount of hoops and left me scratching my head as to why this was so complex in the first place.

My postmortem from a deep-dive I did to understand performance questions related to a production Ruby on Rails application I manage.

I wrote a tiny script to fix `Selenium::WebDriver::Error::SessionNotCreatedError` whenever it rears its ugly head.

I fixed the "error code 0" issue by correctly configuring my AWS S3 CORS settings.

Order matters in your Dockerfile when it comes to ARG declarations!

Trying to add a new keymap in IntelliJ kept crashing it. I fixed this by adding a JVM compiler setting, interestingly enough.

Does your IDE choke trying to process 28MB CSV files? Use sqlite instead!

I figured out how to make Docker's default build output easier to use when debugging docker builds.

Or why I use: "caffeinate -disu &"

…and I learned a lot from it!

Today I found a cool way to leverage Applescripts within git hooks

Set up nvm to auto-run with 'cd' so you never have to worry about it!

The .docsfile was an idea I came up with that allows me to add easily-referenced documentation to any project regardless of collaboration.

Leveraging your desktop Safari to debug a locally-running website is a powerful way to test on a real mobile device.

I inadvertently introduced a pernicious business-logic bug to my Tournament software due to relying on ActiveRecord ordering, without specifying order!

Using datadog to identify and fix a several-second-long page load

My experience figuring out that MacOS Sonoma managed to totally break my dotfiles repo.

How I used ActiveRecord's .group method to verify production feature usage

This website uses a pre-commit hook to ensure that my PDF resume is always up-to-date with my latest website version!

git save is a custom git alias for quick and dirty commits

That gut-wrenching feeling when you realize you've deleted something you shouldn't have.

A quick how-to-fix for a package that did not support the importing syntax I wanted to use.

A likely culprit if ag or vim slow down to an unbearably slow rate

The secret sauce behind ChatGPT

You become what you think you are, regardless of what you really are.

A leader makes sure the right things are getting done. A manager makes sure things are done right.

As a leader, you should identify A-players so that you can avoid losing them due to complacency.

Effective leaders understand how to galvanize growth without sacrificing success.

Building your own shell ergonomics is a great way to improve your workflow speed and efficiency.

What is it the hedgehog knows that the fox does not?

In programming, we're told to avoid premature optimization. Meaning, don't do it until you know you need it. I propose a corollary: we should be cautious what we optimize.

After reading a fascinating new book I found a new perspective on the pursuit of leadership in my career.

My astro project suddenly started failing builds, and it took some extreme measures to identify and fix the problem. Here's what I learned debubging the 'Unexpected "default"' error.

I'm tired of my PDF resume always being out of date with the latest-and-greatest additions to my resume page. So I've fixed it today!

Stop worry about perfection and just write. Write rubbish. Write often.

Your TODO list is too long. Just don't do it. I mean, not literally. Well actually maybe yes, literally. You don't need to do half the things you sign yourself up to do.