The Life and Times of dethstrobe.
Eleven minutes from quarters to the bridge of the Daedalus, if I don't rush – and I never do – on OOD mornings. I look forward to the drive. There's a meditative quality to it; wind in my hair, the 1G of centrifugal force pushing me out from the center of Shoemaker's rotating cylinder, the slight resistance the Humvee gives when I turn against the rotation and the way it wants to drift when I turn…
Just passed the lunch rush down at the base cafeteria. I sit down alone at a bench with my meal, back to the wall out of habit. The ventilation hums overhead, recycling the same air it's been moving since the colony was built. Somewhere behind me, someone is heating something that smells aggressively synthetic. No doubt the commanding officers have started their planning on the final details of…
So, like you do, I've been building a SaaS platform as a solo founder for the past 4 months. Fun times had by all. But, I need money at some point in time (preferably sooner than later), and the product is hopefully...good enough. So I'm going to market starting this week. Spent last week building a nice flyer and talking with the printer. Check it out. Pretty slick, I hope. Right, so I should…
So I've been doing some navel-gazing, trying to understand who I am. And so I got caught up in some nonsensical hypothetical political platform that I'd want to run on. So if I look back on this in 10 years, I might be able to steal some of my ideas to remind myself who I am and what I stand for and believe in. I actually have a lot of wacky ideas, but I'll be focusing on political reform in this…
Figured New Years Eve is a good time to stop and reflect on how this year has been for me. In the Beginning Back at the dawn of time, in January 2025, I was working in New York City at a little known company called Google . Maybe you've heard of them. I also got married. That was fun. Things were going well. At the Googles I wasn't happy with my work at Google. And I quite dreaded my work there.…
Let's say you're developing a site on localhost, like you do. And you're using passkeys, because they're said to be more secure, spoof proof, phish proof, the future of web authentication, etc etc. So naturally, you wipe your DB and regenerate the DB, and all your migrations and seed files worked! But, when you go to register a new user and log back in, you see the old passkeys still being…
Having worked in the tech industry for a while now, I'm convinced there must be something better than the corporate hustle and grind. So let’s talk about an alternative approach, away from feudal corporate overlords and maybe a move towards a collective anarchist commune. The Problem with Payouts Why do tech workers get paid so well? Because we produce an absurd amount of value and software is…
Once upon a time, billions of years ago, at the dawn of time, which was about the midpoint of my career, I worked at a company that was trying to experiment with their software practices. I was asked to join an experimental team trying a new software methodology called Extreme Programming . I was very skeptical (dare I say, extremely skeptical?) of it, but I'm down for trying new things so I can…
I recently left Google after nearly four years. I wish I could say it lives up to all the hype, but it didn't. I honestly felt like I did some of the worst work of my career there. The environment, the processes, and team dynamics simply didn't align with my approach for how to collaborate and ship software. I've been reflecting on exactly why I wasn't able to make it work for me. Just to brace…
A little while ago I upgraded React to v19 in OMA3 and I started to see this warning pop up in my terminal when I ran my tests. Like any developer, I completely ignored it, knowing that warning are more like suggestions than like mandates. But it still annoyed me to see that pop up in every test. So I decided that I was going to solve it. And so I wasted about a week to track down what the problem…