In the early 90s, I was leading a team in the Systems Division at Microsoft working on a version of Windows.  The Microsoft campus in those days was still pretty small; you could count the buildings on two hands.  The company was growing very fast, with new employees showing up

The picture above is my brand new HomePod Mini and its power adapter. You can buy HomePod Minis in 5 different colors to match your decor!  And they all come with a stark white power adapter. This is what I expect if I buy something from Logitech or Belkin or

I’ve related this story before, but it seems relevant. In 1995, as the Internet was exploding, Microsoft was abuzz internally with efforts to build Internet products.  Every product team was thinking about the Internet and what they should do.  There were multiple teams building authoring tools, servers, and browsers.

One view of AI coding is that it can help you generate 10x more code or 10x more features.  As Dare and others point out, we are starting to see the failings of that idea — for many use cases, we don’t need 10x more code or 10x more features,

As I age, my eyeglass prescription wanders, particularly the astigmatism component. I’ve been trying to adjust to a new prescription as of late, and it has been a killer.   I have had to really whack down my screen time, and am still struggling with fatigue, headaches, and some depth

I wrote my first significant piece of software back in 1979.  I had done some trivial things before that, but at that time, only cassette tape storage was available to me. Coding, saving, and iterating on software was painful – reading and writing to the cassette was slow and error-prone.

This is a hopeful post about technology.  The internet is an amazing tool to get and share information about government and policy issues — hats off to the state of Washington for its online presence.   And the internet is a great way to find and build community.  And our AI tools