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I recently got a new phone after my last phone was kinda destroyed…and realized to get into my office I would need to download an app to get in.

I recently took a flight with United, and out of boredom decided to look at the snack menu.

Bit of a shortie… An important lesson in our current age of limited context windows and rot is your code should be cleaner than it was before.

I was deep into investigating a performance issue with Letta Desktop lately; the story was same old same old, the greater the use, the slower the product.

You need a webring!

On the eve of America’s 250th birthday I wanted to reflect to think about my position in this nation.

Lines, Commits, Code I see them stream in, I submit I know the course, I know the plan The implementation is out of my hands I see it go, productive with ease But is there any meaning to me The lines, commits, code All had meaning to me The course of the…

I got a new phone number, it’s great!

Going to the gym after work is an exercise in patience and vision, you need to be patient for the a bench or machine to be available, and you need the vision to see what even is going to be available.

Restaurants in San Francisco sure love exclusivity.

On the intersection of Market and Bush lies Mechanics monument Plaza, an unassuming urban space with a table tennis court.

Cursor 3 came out - it looks cool, lots of nifty agentic features - but something kinda burns in the back of my head.

Minecraft just has their annual Minecraft Live: their annual showcase of the "big update" of the year.

I stopped using instagram a while ago, but one thing I did was keep my account around so that there would be a less likely chance that someone could impersonate me with a new account.

Outside Lands (OSL) just dropped their linup for their 2026 show, and one curious thing seems a bit present when looking at all the artists.

When I was early in my career, I often looked at case studies with uninterest.

I got a very nice email from one of our software vendors congratulating us on a new launch of a product.

(I am not a lawyer) An interesting law is now in effect in California - AB316.

A little bit after my 28th birthday I went to get a regular blood draw.

This is not the typical story of haufbraus that many a local newspaper have covered, this is a bit deeper!

(This article is severely delayed because I forgot it in drafts) Over the summer I had the opportunity to work with two bright young minds at Letta~here's what happened: We decided to setup a internship program this year because we felt it could be an int…

Word of the Day - Postequital Postequital (adj) - Describes a person or actions of a person whose startup equity actually became valuable.

The common Friday morning schedule for most startup employees with reasonable leadership is to pick out the food they want to consume for the next week.

You ever beat a game and then unlock gun/sword/magic power that makes everything super easy to destroy and then you get bored of the game?

I think I have a kinda overkill analytics stack for my website.

I just took a 12 hour flight, and on my 6 hours of being awake, I realized there’s a few things that people miss out on that makes their flight a bit nicer.

My coworker Cameron told me lately that I was a sandwich hater, but I actually do love sandwiches, below is a running list of my favorite sandwich spots in the city.

I just added comments section to the blog part of this site.

As we approach the 2030’s, we’re reaching a point where there won’t be someone alive today who had been around at the same time as someone who was alive in the 18th century (1701-1800).

Between March and April of 2025, I went to three hackathons as a representative of the startup I currently work for.

I was checking out this software called utteranc.es, thinking about how I can add a comment section to this blog.

I was watching one of my favorite YouTube series' called Jetlag last week when I saw the contestants Sam and Tom Scott struggling to name 100 women.

Knowing my way around technology was easy for me; I was born in the late 90's and grew up in the Silicon Valley.

For the length of my career in startups, both as an interviewee and interviewer, interviews are way too long and way too uninteresting.

In 2025 I started using Eleventy (11ty) for building my personal website. 11ty fundamentally is a tool that takes in an input directory of files and ouputs them to a dist directory.

Building real-time applications on the web has never been easier.