One habit that’s been building for me over the last two years is note-taking. In school, and for most of my career, I’ve relied on my memory instead of taking actual notes during classes or meetings. …

I don't recall if I encountered Applesoft BASIC or Logo first. I do remember playing Summer Games on an Apple ][c, and then thinking how cool it would be if I could make my own game. I tried BASIC, …

There are 6 ingredients in the formation of this memory: the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a Speak & Spell, a crystal radio kit, an aluminum saucer, lots of 22 gauge wire, and a tall tree. If …

I spend way too much time thinking about words. Currently I’m obsessed with finding a very specific word or phrase. […] There’s a phenomenon that many of us encounter where we grow confident …

This series isn't intended to be a comprehensive review of technology tools or platforms to build & host small static or interactive web experiences. There are plenty of platforms out there for …

How you do anything is how you do everything. As a parent I find myself saying that quite a bit. I put on my stern lecture-y dad face and always start with a slightly puzzled sounding "You …

One of my goals during this unplanned career reset is to build more depth around what cloud capabilities make the most sense for a given challenge. Like most people, I have tools that I know work, so …

I’ve had a few conversations over the past week that circled around the shifting or diminishing rewards of being a developer in the age of agents. If the fun of coding & debugging is shifted into …

Day n* of what's next. […] I'm abandoning the ordinal approach. The next post will just be what's-next, and this is the transition. […] Today it's Why Nike? How did I end up there? What …

Day 3 of what's next; figuring out what I'm good at. […] Like many of my peers I didn't know what I wanted to do when I grew up, and I didn't understand what "my skill" was. Looking …