Summary and Audience

This week I participated in a discussion about newsletters. Specific topics ranged broadly: audience focus, free versus subscription at …

Listening Is Underrated

Many years ago a friend pointed out to me that the more the other party talks in a meeting, the better they tend to think it went. People do …

Step CLI

Looking to set up ssl connections to PostgreSQL with pgbouncer, I found Step CLI. It’s an open-source certificate management tool for …

Training Intuition

Last night someone told me about Hubert Dreyfus, and specifically his books What Computers Can’t Do and What Computers Still …

Evolutionary Reordering

Natural organisms have evolved to fuel themselves from their environments, from photosynthesis, to grazing, to scavenging, to predation, to …

Scaling and Standardization

At the most recent Lean Coffee Austin event we had an interesting discussion around the topic of scaling engineering teams. The introduction …

Moats and AI Revisited

What business models and positioning are defensible in an AI-powered world? What moats will remain as AI grows more capable? Over the past …

Linuxulator for the Win

Last month I wrote up an approach to working with two operating systems with a single-boot system. This approach consisted of invoking Linux …

Fragments for llm

Simon Willison added “fragments” to his llm program. See the announcement and documentation. This radically extends the facility …

Dual OS Single Boot

It’s increasingly common to run into programs that are not portable. One mild version is people who assume Bash is available without …