Skills and Learning
The Foundation Still Matters
AI tools amplify whatever you bring to the table. The eight thousand startups rebuilding their apps right now brought the wrong thing.
Leave It Better Than You Found It
A campsite rule that became a software principle that works as a career strategy. Three layers: deliver, optimize, improve.
WASM Isn't Always Faster
WebAssembly delivers on its promise, but the promise is more specific than the marketing suggests. The advantage isn't raw speed — it's predictable performance in the face of computational unpredictability.
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held
A person without a position is a person without a signal. And no signal means no relevance.
The Claude Code Leak: A Masterclass in the "Iceberg" of Engineering
Claude Code leaked recently due to a misconfigured software pipeline—the digital equivalent of leaving the back door to the vault wide open. The internet reaction was swift; while it wasn't quite a "Gangnam Style" server-breaking event, people rushed to grab the source code before the gap was plugge
Markdown is the new way to use text, change my mind.
If you don't know what Markdown is, you might be in the same position as someone 40 years ago who was still struggling to figure out what this WordPerfect thing was and how it was better than the IBM Selectric.
Your Portfolio is Your Storytelling Superpower
It’s been a hot minute since my last post about skills. The meme isn't a lie: skills pay the bills. But in today’s world, it isn’t enough to just say you have the skills to do the job. You have to show it. This is where your portfolio steps in.
Key Principles for Developing with AI
The article was originally posted on LinkedIn. During earlier experiments, I discovered key guidance for framing prompts and conversations when using AI as a "pair programmer" or "tasked agent." Extensive research exists on how to optimize model output, with various approaches like RISEN offering di
Let's go. Time to #GSD in your next chapter.
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. I was chatting with a colleague yesterday and was informed that using hashtags is no longer en vogue. So be it. I am officially old. The great thing about being old is that you get more leeway in what you say and how you say it. And I'm here today t
How I learned that skills matter.
Early in my career, I landed a job managing a group of technical instructors. I didn't know the first thing about teaching, especially teaching technical topics to professionals. I was interested, and I was also clueless.