Blog

My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.

You Own It Published December 9, 2024

I keep seeing how “LLMs are great teaching tools! I asked it to explain X to me and it did!” Don’t be fooled! Ask it to explain a technical topic you deeply understand and you’ll start to see where it makes things up. It is a predictive text engine. Sure, you can do all sorts of prompt hacking to get better results. But at the end of the day, if you don’t know the topic really well you will never know if it made up the facts it gave you.

Solving Problems with Code Published May 25, 2024

Software development doesn’t have to be your career. Use it to solve pain points in your life, like the one I had today.

Wrapping Up the Year Published December 21, 2023

I started out the year thinking it would be “business as usual.” Boy was I wrong.

One Year at Temporal Published March 21, 2023

I’ve been at Temporal for a full year. So, how’d it go?

Learning Styles are a Myth Published December 15, 2022

You may have heard of learning styles. But it turns out there’s no evidence to support them.

Moving On from DigitalOcean Published March 15, 2022

A look back on my time at DigitalOcean as I close the books on nearly six years at this great company.

My 2022 RPM Challenge results Published February 27, 2022

This February, I did the RPM Challenge, a global event where musicians have the month of Febrary to record and release music. Like last year, I was able to choose to do a single song, an EP of 5 songs, or a full-length album. My goal was to do the 5-song EP, but February turned out to be a lot busier than I’d expected.

Deploy Lounge Performance Published December 19, 2021

I performed my own music on DigitalOcean’s live stream as part of the Deploy conference.

International Books Published September 23, 2021

A look at the changes that happen when my books are translated into other languages.