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.  The

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

AI is arguably the most transformative and empowering technology of our lifetime. We can use AI to improve our products, broaden our goals, and achieve new heights.   Or we can fire a bunch of people.  Right now, the industry mostly seems to be firing a bunch of people. Some CEOs

Last week, I wrote about building a dry-humor travel website with Claude Code — how Claude abstracted away all the busywork and let me focus on just what mattered: the conception and the voice. Cristi looked at what I built and said, "this is not software, this is art."

I spent a little time this week building a dry-humor website: a travel guide for an actual place, but with fictional activities and details.  I used Claude Code and Cloudflare Pages, but the technology stack and tooling are completely irrelevant — the heart of the website is the conception, the voice,

We’ve been entertaining family and guests, and the time got away from me, and I didn’t post last week.  Apologies! The Agentic Coding Wave Steve Yegge’s observation on Google and AI adoption (via Dare): The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same Al

I think a lot about compounding.  Not in the sense of compounding interest, tho that is a great and powerful thing.  But the compounding of knowledge. One of my favorite books is Jeff Tweedy’s “How to Write One Song”.  He describes how he just keeps plugging away, building an

I am using Claude Code for almost all projects these days, even if they are not explicitly coding projects.  It does such a good job at planning out projects, completing them piecemeal, leaving breadcrumbs, etc.  But it is a strange way to work; most humans won’t want to work

I am old and used keypunch machines and teletype machines back in the day.  But computers really took off for me when I got my own video terminal and a command-line prompt.  That is how I started with the Apple ][ and IBM PCs, that is how I started with Unix