Zero Degrees Kelvin

The promise of acceleration from AI developer tooling is highly alluring and yet there’s this annoying risk of such tooling generating logic that would result in … uh … negative outcomes.

It seems fairly common for organisations adopting AI tooling to measure adoption rates, token usage, generated code commits, etc and I must admit my mind boggles.

“I’m imparting my knowledge on the bro” - Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) No.

It may or may not be common knowledge that I have a background in accounting.

It’s well understood that the vast majority of people turn up to work every day wanting to do a great job and be recognised for their efforts in whatever way grants the dopamine hit we all so desire.

If you release software with any reasonable cadence, it’s almost inevitable you will end up using a feature flag system of one sort or another.

Past JuniorDev Auckland Meet Topic: Software Engineering - The AI Reboot Date: 2025-08-06 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Slides Cloud Native Summit

When I was a teenager I started saving up for my first vehicle and I remember my dad saying the cost of buying it was the cheapest part of the ownership experience.

Defensive programming is a solid practice to adopt and I generally advocate that we do so but we have to be careful we are still getting the value we expect from the practice.

Some time ago I was getting an old gameboy up and running again and found myself enjoying a game of Tetris.

I’m quite a fan of a Canadian documentary series called Air Crash Investigations.

I’ve sometimes taken the opportunity to speak on engineering career panels and a question often asked by new engineers or graduates is ‘How do I make my CV stand out?’

It seems fitting that the first post should be about the inspiration for its title.

I am a software professional and leader who often finds myself drawing analogies with the non-software world.