Housemaid

My son and his cousin said it was good. Reviews agreed. Sequel already greenlit. I walked in thinking no way this delivers. Hype is usually a leading indicator of disappointment. I was wrong. The Housemaid is dark. It earns it. 10 bloody teeth and 10 hair follicles out of 10.…

Engineering Leaders Are Just Cargo Culting With Better Calendars

Oh engineering leaders, gather around. Part 565 of 45345 🍿 You read the same three books, implement the same quarterly theatre, and dont get me started on your hiring problems. You cargo cult the same radical candor frameworks while being neither radical nor candid. You talk about psychological safety in all-hands…

No Ghosts In My Closet

For some reason, regardless of the relationship, everyone has always known everything about me. I don't go around volunteering all my stories, but I also don't lie when asked. Never have. I've always struggled with liars. Not even the big lies. The obvious ones.…

What Is A Domain Event

Domain Events Fire From Domain Logic. Not Repositories. Not Anywhere Else. Domain events fire when something meaningful happens in your system. Not when a row gets inserted. When the business cares. A user didn't get inserted into a table. A user registered. An order wasn't updated…

Art is Creation

I believe art is not paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Art is creation. Growing up, I was obsessed with making things. Legos. Staying up late typing random words on the typewriter because the result on that onion paper was incredible. Building forts in the backyard. Creating routes for marbles to follow…

AWS ECS IS KING

I've deployed on everything. EC2 with custom AMIs. EKS. Bare instances. Dell Racks in the closet (this was a pain but needed at Energy Exemplar). Managed Instances. Heroku. DigitalOcean. Google Cloud got heavy at Betterleap where we spun up services constantly. Azure and I have met but we&…

Caring Out Loud Is Bullshit

Virtue signaling is performance art for people who've confused having opinions with having impact. You changed your profile picture. Congratulations. The algorithm noticed. Nobody else did. That's not activism. That's a firmware update for your personal brand. Here's what I've…

Why is everyone suddenly a self proclaimed no-code/ai expert?!

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.…

Anaconda 2025

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 -…

Wicked

Hot garbage. Halfway through, I stood up and said "Is this thing still going!?". I will never watch this again.…