The year 2025 was the year of exploration and perspective forming for many of us. The rapid rise of GenAI in software development brought a familiar wave of bold claims, conflicting signals, and strong opinions. Depending on who you ask, it’s simultaneously reshaping how software is built, eliminating the need for engineers, or quietly overhyped.
The fear of losing ‘the edge’
It all starts with a question
Cookies may be the most heavily discussed topic in marketing, advertising, and analytics conversations. Like most complex solutions involving technology, in order to understand the challenges, we need to start at the beginning with clear terminology to find a path forward.
In 2009, web fonts emerged into the world with browser now supporting font-face definitions in CSS, which then became mainstream with the help of the Typekit project (now Adobe Fonts) and Google fonts.
This post is a retrospective on a book I wrote in 2012. You can checkout the the listing on amazon.com, if you are curious.
My name is Tim and I’m addicted to Netflix. It’s something I love to do while I’m working at home, relaxing after a long day, or just decompressing over the weekend. I’ve noticed a trend of heavy usage lately, so I did what any normal person would do in this situation and I wrote a script to scrape, inspect, and analyze my Netflix viewing history.
From the second you first meet someone and put their phone number in your phone, you are creating history through your conversation. A few years ago, my wife and I realized that the evolution of our relationship was archived in our texts and we didn’t want to lose it. So I wrote this script to visualize our entire SMS conversation in one PDF.