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After 8 years, I've realized that I don't really like jiu jitsu.

In his post Why Software Factories fail the CEO of HumanLayer argues that a combination of reasons (agents, training, harnesses) are the reason that we don't see effective "software factories".But I disagree with the whole premise: that a software factory…

In business, life, and combat—those who adapt more quickly—win.

Deformed from years of video games, my brain thinks growth feels good.As you level-up, the game feels nicer—less grind-y.Unfortunately, it took me 31 years to notice that life doesn't work like that at all.

I wrote this in response to a Hacker News question.

Note WARNING Human-crafted em-dashes ahead.

The Logitech G604 is my favorite mouse ever, so much so that before they were discontinued (RIP), I purchased two at the same time so I wouldn't have to change mice for years to come.

E,You were in my house for 429 days.

Note For the purposes of this blog, "information asymmetry" is when one party can only exist as a business due to predatory practices that are only recorded in lengthy legal documents that, before AI, no one read.

Despite the town criers' warnings, vibe coding is here to stay.

Large language models (LLMs) usually default to lists, obvious observations, hedging, and comprehensiveness.

Whether you are terrified that maybe AI won't get better, or actively glazing OpenClaw for being your new life manager we can all agree—things are accelerating.Whether that's good or bad mostly depends on what color your blinders are.Traveling at mach-Opu…

Lack of Clarity ✨ I've found that somewhere around 98% of all my procrastination comes from a lack of clarity about what exactly the end goal is and what the very first step towards that end goal should be.A lack of clarity can be many things: Uncertainty…

Recently, I got an email newsletter from Jonathan Stark titled, "Why Editing = Thinking" which got me thinking about writing, editing, and crystallizing your thoughts.Writing is always unstructured in the beginning: you just plop words onto paper.

Recently, I've been unsatisfied with Reflect notes primarily because the way my brain works doesn't seem to align well with Reflect notes.

A while back, I started using iTerm2's Dynamic Profiles.

A project that I'm leading has an existing monolith and a newer API that is partially derived from existing functionality in the monolith.

I was surprised when a Capybara test that's been running fine for weeks, suddenly threw this error:Selenium::WebDriver::Error::SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 131 Current browser versi…

Recently I built out a new model which utilizes ActionText and by extension ActiveStorage so that I can embed attachments and images.However, when I tested it locally it didn't work.

I ran into an issue where I need to build a Rails environment with the :development group, which doesn't happen in the default Rails Dockerfile.To fix this, we can use ARGs in the Dockerfile to enable Docker Compose to pass in variables at build time.