"AI Architect" in your LinkedIn title and resume is the new "Growth Hacker" from 2013. It's a costume, not a credential. You know what we called people who designed systems that happened to include machine learning five years ago? Engineers. Architects. Sometimes just "…
That dashboard you're staring at didn't materialize from the void. Someone chose what to count. Someone chose what not to count. When the numbers look wrong, your first instinct is to debug the math. Wrong instinct. Debug the people. Who touched this data? What were they…
Come to the altar, and be rejected, as a liar's facade never remains solid. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But if you get too close, beware, they are dancing with the devil in a ballroom of their own making. Die a liar. Be remembered as one.…
WOW. WOW. WOW. This is incredible. I can't compare this to anything but this show was so... dark, deep, and riveting. The character stories as they are told are addicting and fun to follow. Colin Farrel did an incredible job. 10 out of 10 eyebrows.…
My wife sent me a text that included a lot of the below philosophy. She smiled after she sent it, saying "it's incredible to look back, and reflect on how much he tried to do to us, how much he said about us to others, when all…
We build temples out of paychecks. Altars of leather seats and square footage. We hang diplomas like saints on the wall and call it arrival. The hungry years. The proving. The more, the almost, the finally. We gnaw the hours down to bone for things that will forget our names…
In first grade, Mrs. Cooper's class at Oakview Elementary, she would always play a game with the class similar to hide and seek. A classmate would hide a toy (I believe it was a leprechaun) while the rest of us would put ur heads down and waited. Once…
The origin story nobody asks about but everyone should. 1995? 1994? 1993? 1992? We all have our Eben Visher. My parents family friend, Eben Visher, typed commands into a black screen while I watched like it was sorcery, as he would come over all the time to fix our computers.…
In 2013, at EVALS, I implemented the command bus pattern for the first time quite heavily. We had a modular backend, and using it as a way to coordinate across module boundaries felt cleaner than injecting services or passing DTOs around. It had intent baked in. Action. For the right…
You're an engineer with a Turborepo monorepo, pnpm workspaces, Next.js, Docker Compose with Kubernetes, Helm charts, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Datadog, and whatever landed on AWS this week. You think you're building something sleek. You're building a 40-story skyscraper to serve a lemonade stand.…