Y’know that venerable and also sort of banal tradition of blog housekeeping posts? This started as one of those. “Hey so I moved off GitHub Pages here’s a few technical details.” I keep trying to write more straightforward technical posts and they keep morphing into thinky personal essays. At some point I’ll shut up and just, like, map my homelab or whatever. But in the meantime…
This is a draft — feedback welcome! Last updated 2026-03-29. Edit history on GitHub.
In the last post we built a frame: software is accumulated attention. LLMs have given us incredible new tools for manipulating text and code, but they cannot substitute the attention required to construct and maintain a working system. You can chase the attention around, but you can’t skip it.
Ahoy, software-slinging mateys! There’s a lot of foam on the water right now. AI is remaking how software gets built, and our whole industry is metabolizing the change in public. Maintainers are overwhelmed! Systems thinkers are drawing new diagrams! Individual developers are writing about how their own workflows feel different in ways they can’t quite name! Is it a tailspin? An ouroboros of…
I penned this one as a stake in the ground for how we’re thinking about AI at Miren. It’s got both Evan’s and my name on it because it reflects where we’ve landed together, but I drove the drafting — with, fittingly, a little help from our robot friend.
In 3D graphics, there’s a technique called Level of Detail (LoD). The idea is simple: why spend GPU cycles rendering every vertex of a distant mountain when the player can’t tell the difference between ten thousand triangles and a hundred? So the engine swaps in a lower-polygon model. As you get closer, it swaps in a higher one. Done well, the player never notices.
I wrote a post for the Miren blog about the joy of rapid iteration and low-friction deployment. It’s the story of an internal project that started as a simple Google Meet bot and evolved into something genuinely useful because we made trying things free.
This post serves as both my review of and my final assignment for Terra.do’s Learning for Action Course. If you’ve heard me refer to “my climate class” - which is highly likely if you’ve spent more than 30 seconds talking to me recently - this is what it was all about!
The last instance of the Strange Loop tech conference in St. Louis just wrapped up. I’m so glad I was able to be here. This conference made an important impact on me in my early career, and this year’s experience inspired me to write my own farewell.
It’s been several months since I wrote about my diagnosis. I figured it’s about time to cook up a public update. So, please join me for a tour of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia!