Building at the Speed of Thinking
techaibuilding
Output is increasing exponentially. Validation is flat and adoption is getting harder. The craft is becoming the curation of an endless sea of code.
Writing
Buildcrastination and the Parallel Work Trap
techaibuilding
It's never been easier to be productive—and that's exactly the trap. The hard part now is doing the thing Claude can't do for you.
How I built in 2025
techaibuilding
Never in my career has the foundation of software development felt as fluid as it has in 2025. Karpathy summarizes it well in this tweet.
Guilty Pleasure Music: Why I Don't Listen to Sun Kil Moon Anymore
musiclife
Mark Kozelek, the man behind Sun Kil Moon, has written many albums. There was a time when I got quite into his music. This was around the…
Multitasking with Coding Agents
techaibuilding
A note about developing with LLMs / agents, and authorship responsibility.
Cloudflare's Content Independance Day
techaiweb
A quick note on the recent news about Cloudflare's Content Independence Day. It's pretty massive imo.
The 30-Year Ad Conversion
weblife
So, I had to have a tooth extracted this past weekend.
Zuck doesn't have your back
webtech
I've been thinking about something I heard Mark Zuckerberg say on a recent podcast with Ben Thompson.
Humane's Broken Promise
tech
The Snowblower Saga
Journaling for the AI future
aiproductivity
I was listening to a Lenny podcast on my run today. Lenny is an optimistic and prolific PM-centric podcaster that always has engaging…
Welcome back, Technical Documentation
techaibuilding
I've been doing more heads-down software development in the past year than perhaps ever before. Working (mostly) alone on a codebase has…
The Era of Personalized Software?
techai
A few years ago when I went on my first run with a baby stroller, I realized that my stats were off. I've long been an avid user of an app…
More things about Portugal
travel
My family and I recently returned from (another) trip to Portugal. It was (another) phenomenal trip filled with growth and leisure, and we…
A week after WWDC
techappleai
The announcements at WWDC last week are still kind of blowing my mind. I wrote about Apple a few months back and how there was such a…
Crunching Hospital wait times with AI in 15 minutes
techai
A year and a half ago I wrote a little scraper to pull the local children's hospital (CHEO) wait times. We were visiting somewhat…
Today Apple is slow
techappleai
I historically have proudly identified as an Apple fanboy. Love the design, love the products, and love being a part of the developer…
Here
techappleproductivity
After years of toying with focus modes on iPhone, I finally found the one¹ I need.
Grateful for Green Onions
lifetravel
Over the past 6 months, I've come to realize green onions are one of my favorite foods.
Things about Portugal
travel
My family recently returned from Portugal having spent much of the winter there. It was a phenomenal trip, and I'm incredibly grateful to…
Past, pains, predictions and prayers of my love affair with Smartphones
techapple
A brief history of my relationship with smartphones, why they are not serving me today, and where I hope and think they'll go in the…
On being a parent
parentinglife
In the middle of a brief pause from a hectic, breathless morning doing my best to ready my family for the day, my minds eye focused in on…
My new camera
photographytech
I agree very much with the adage that the best camera is the one that is with you. For the past 12 years, this has been the camera built in…
Free Speech Collage
web
I have been fascinated by social media ever since the early days, leveraging it where possible, and diving in early and blindly when new…
Crunching my Twitter Data
techweb
At the crossroads of quite a few backburner interests of mine, I decided to take a look at some of my historical internet usage data to see…
My approach to 2021
productivity
I have long had a fascination with todo lists, note taking apps, writing platforms, personal and professional goal frameworks, and more…
How corporations rob the bank of humanity
life
Has something ever happened to you that has left you in a complete state of disbelief? Not in only in a how could this actually happen…
Concerning the relativity of my time
life
Lessons learned during a year away from work, and what I was taught about time, myself.
Garmin, it's over between us
techrunning
Details of my struggles trying to love a simple running watch, and through this journey I learned a little about myself. Or maybe not.
My first Fastpack
running
I fastpacked… at least by my definition I did.
That time I went to the forest
travelrunning
I've recently had the most intentional, reflection heavy, solo adventure I can imagine. I spent 10 nights alone in a glampy cabin, deep in…
Today we returned Bonesinante
travel
Today was a bittersweet day. It was the day we returned Bonesanate.
Closure is overrated
life
Warning: minor spoilers ahead — if you ever plan to watch Twin Peaks and don’t want an ounce of mystery revealed, then stop reading. If…
Own your email dammit
productivitytech
So i'm launching this new service.
Your time
life
Shit happens in life. All the time. It's usually mundane, sometimes irksome, sometimes joyous, and occasionally tragic. You get through it…
Cup Tower Armchair Sociology
life
Amidst the low key shitshow that is Beau's Oktoberfest (not to preclude this also happening at other similar events worldwide), many have…
Human Friction
techlife
I just sold some Moose Antlers on Kijiji in a novel way (to me anyways).
Observation at a Gas Station
life
One of my personal intentions this (and last!) year was to be more observant of my surroundings. Something concrete occurred recently that…
The Socials
weblife
I've taken a bit of a break from social media this year. The goal of this intentional partially dark period was to see if i could bring…
Fast and Slow Walkers
life
There is a lesson about judgement I have to keep learning over and over again. Every time a good example comes up, I try to burn it into my…
Perspective
life
I sold the monitor this morning. I had to poke the guy on email, but eventually I got him to come out. He claimed to have had the worst…
Anti-Douchery: Federated Personal Reputation
techweb
The general user experience on buy/sell sites like Kijiji is just terrible. Such a bad lingering taste it leaves. I forget the good and…