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When making decisions, too many people write a pros/cons list when they should really write a durable decision.

For five years, I had been loyal to Things for task management.

Coding agents like GPT 5.2 Codex and Opus 4.5 are good enough now that I always run them in "yolo" mode.

Earlier this year, I wondered what it would take to semi-automatically generate mini crossword puzzles with code.

It’s January 2023, and— in the AI community— everything feels possible again.

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When working with CSV files, I often want to query them with SQL.

lockdown /ˈläkdoun/ n.

I often read product and engineering documents that detail reasons for why the team/org/company should do something– launch a new product, refactor a system, etc.

Engineers often have to ask each other for “estimates”– rough projections for how long projects will take.

The trigger

As an Engineering Manager, I frequently observe teams working on projects where something doesn’t feel right.

Most teams reach an inflection point where good documentation is essential to its productivity.

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love reading again

People often interpret “I understand” to mean “I agree”, but they don’t mean the same thing.

I recently discovered the convenience of managing configuration of hobby-grade software projects with Google Sheets.

I’m going through interview training at my employer right now.

I didn’t take a CS class in high school, but I often meet people who did.

I often wish I were a better negotiator.

If you were like me in college, you first learned about the C programming language in an introductory computer science course.

One of Google search’s underrated features is the ability to narrow search results by date.

In software engineering, it’s easy to criticize other teams.

Someone told me that all great meetings start and end with the same two sentences.

Ushering one of computing's most mundane tasks

I’m a big fan of the Amazon Kindle.

Here are some articles by other people that I recommend.

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Don Draper speaks into a dictaphone in Mad Men Season 5, Episode 8

I love the Amazon Kindle’s E-Ink screen.

A week ago, I tried a fun experiment.

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In elementary school, there were “math kids” and there were “English kids”.

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There are few classes at Princeton that changed me like COS 318 (Operating Systems).

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https://jasperproject.github.io/

The app itself got featured in Humans of New York in January 2014.

A dead-simple spreadsheet that organizes tasks and shares knowledge for small teams and projects

For some time a few months ago, I became obsessed with wireless sniffing.

A lot of first-time programmers ask me for “getting started” advice.

I was curious how many students at Princeton had posted a web site and, if so, what those sites were about.

Why Printers