Musings of an Engineering Leader
How I built CalledUp, a baseball and softball team management app, using AI in a sustainable way, starting features on my phone at the ball diamond and finishing them at home. A practical look for engineers who want to build real things.
Six years ago I spent a week training a neural network to write blog posts and the results were terrible. Now with LLMs I want to see how much easier and better the results are.
A post generated by ChatGPT to showcase the differences in how technology has progressed over the last six years
A look into the books I read in 2023, the goals I set and how I did.
I've been blogging on and off for almost 20 years now and I wanted to quickly look back at how the content and technology has changed as well as share some numbers over the years.
A deep dive into how I built my first npm package, a social media sharing component for the Astro framework.
The best piece of advice I've ever received about building software is to ship things you're embarrassed with.
A quick look into how you can migrate your blog from Hugo to Astro, extend your markdown content and fix any issues that come up during migration.
Creating a company engineering blog is hard. From building to planning to encouraging engineers to write. This post walks you through how to build a company engineering blog successfully.
A lightning talk I gave on how (not) to start a new hobby.
A look into the books I read in 2022, the goals I set and how I did.
A quick meta post about my desire to write more and how I plan to accomplish it
Explore the hidden costs of excessive meetings on productivity and employee morale, and learn effective strategies to minimize meetings and improve efficiency in the workplace.
A deep-dive into how I built a program that generated over 10,000 unique 8-bit lightsabers and then tweeted them daily.
A quick look into running scheduled tasks on your Digital Ocean droplet via a crontab
Meetings can be detrimental to productivity and learn strategies to minimize unnecessary meetings, boosting efficiency and focus in your team. Here's some practical tips to optimize your work environment and reclaim valuable time.