The Phoenix Trap

By 10:25 AM, I’d entered what Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans call “Deep Hurting.”

This is a practical pattern I use when containerized apps expect environment variables but I want the security benefits of file-mounted secrets.

Claude Code is a powerful command-line tool for agentic software development.

I had a fun philosophical conversation with Claude (a large language model AI service) about the nature of consciousness, ethics, and eventually art.

Applying Platform Thinking to the Job Hunt Most job applications today are screened by AI-driven applicant tracking systems (ATS) before a human ever sees them.

Rewriting a script for the Homebrew package manager taught me how the Go programming language’s design choices align with platform-ready tools.

This is a story about patches.

Social media is how many people experience the Internet today.

Every extended Labor Day weekend, 80,000 fans of pop culture descend on Atlanta for Dragon Con.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to use the modulino pattern in Perl to create unit-testable command line tools.