Aaron Brethorst

A greenhouse and a lens both run on sunlight, and they do opposite things with it.

The hard part of writing software has never been the writing.

Last month I wrote that skills are the most underrated feature in agentic AI.

Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use on demand.

Stop having pet projects; that’s a Staff Engineer’s domain.

I find the usual conversations about AI and creativity to be pretty boring - we’ve been talking about cameras and sampling for years now, and I’m not particularly interested in getting mired down in the muck of the morality and economics of it all.

Washington state has a larger economy than Argentina or Sweden.

The nature of software development is changing out from under us, and I think we’re kidding ourselves that it’s going to end with just a reconfiguration of how professional developers ship software.

What hath God wrought Samuel Morse - First telegraph message, May 24, 1844 On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse tapped out this message from the Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol to his partner Alfred Vail in Baltimore.

This week, Washington state Representatives Hall, Callan, Reed, and Leavitt prefiled HB 2296, a bill that would legalize plug-in “balcony solar” systems in Washington.