Suddenly everyone can create and build without code and suddenly everyone is an AI expert telling us when we will be replaced. Where were you five years ago? Ten years ago? 20? I've been in software engineering for 25+ years and this hype/story resurfaces all the time.…
This was pleasantly interesting. I was hesitant at first, given the plot: A movie about making a movie about a movie. But knowing it had Jack Black and Paul Rudd, I knew it would be entertaining. The Ice Cube cameo was great, the J. Lo one, not at all -…
Hot garbage. Halfway through, I stood up and said "Is this thing still going!?". I will never watch this again.…
I rate this 2 siamese cats speaking sign language to whales with bull rings. Make this movie make sense - it felt like I was watching something where the plot was dumped out of a bucket of 3rd grade stories and randomly glue-sticked together. Such a disaster when the first…
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl There is a unique fantasy this movie brings to me. Growing up, going on this ride at Disneyland was the highlight of each and every trip. Seeing this brought to life, simply makes me feel... at peace. There is a…
I initially binged Stranger Things like everyone else. The 80s nostalgia hit exactly right and was genuinely my favorite part as I loved my childhood in the 80s. The synth soundtrack, riding around on bikes everywhere everyday, and welcome back Winona Ryder. That first season had real magic to it.…
The place where Iām Head of Engineering is my biggest headline. Nearly 500k customers, $MMM in processing and revenue, small engineering team, and it feels like the EVALS days again - good people, real impact, actual smiles. Big announcement coming in February š¤« 2026: SMILES X 1290320993930223 š But, as the…
Somewhere along the way we became the tollbooth between the business and their own data (well, ok, actually... this is how its always been. I still remember the platform i built in ~1997 to collect data for an insurance company... getting it to them how they needed, that was... . . . . hey…
I got certified in pencil sharpening last week. Twelve modules. Forty hours. There was a capstone project. I sharpened a pencil. It was a #2 pencil because, yah. I'm now a Certified Pencil Sharpening Professional (CPSP). Felt important. The course covered the history of pencils. The philosophy of…
I wrote another book! He's an outline of whats inside. Chapter 1: Type words into an API integration. Chapter 2: Change the words slightly. Chapter 3: Tell stakeholders you're "tuning the model." Chapter 4: Change the words slightly again. Chapter 5: Change the words…