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Becoming a Digital Octopus
I have been re-reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time trilogy. If you have any interest in science fiction, go read the series. You'll thank me.
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Herding Cats: My Attempt to Tame AI Coding Agents
A brief story about the challenges of working with different AI coding agents and the realization that complex tooling can be a hindrance.
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The Changing Face of Software Development
How agentic coding is shifting the role of the developer from writer to architect, and why code review is the most critical skill in this new world.
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Rules for AI partnership
I recently wrote about rediscovering flow through AI coding, where I mentioned developing strict rules for working with AI. Several people asked what those rules actually look like and how I figured them out. Here's the story of how I…
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AI coding and rediscovering flow
Two years ago I was burned out on coding. This summer I've had multiple 16-hour programming sessions that left me energized. What happened?
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Pura Vida!
On October 17th, Farrah and I left our last AirBnB in Buenos Aires, and flew to Costa Rica.
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The post I didn't expect to write
I'm kind of homesick.
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15 countries and counting
The last week of September we visited Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, which was something of a milestone for me since Uruguay is the 15th country I have visited, and the 6th new country we have been to on our trip.…
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Machu Picchu
I'm writing this post rather late, as usual. Over a month ago we decided that since we were so close to Peru (we were in Colombia at the time) it would be stupid not to visit Machu Picchu. After all,…
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Jungle beaches are no place to be sick
Last week we changed scenery to the northern coast of Colombia to visit Santa Marta and Tayrona National Park. The Colombian coast is quite a bit different from Bogota and Medellin. For starters, it's at sea level, and feels distinctly…