Your Database Is Already the Best API You'll Ever Write
For decades we buried databases under layers of abstraction. Tools like PostgREST and Supabase show that PostgreSQL with Row-Level Security is often the best API you'll ever write....
Why Technical Interviews Test the Wrong Thing
Technical interviews optimize for competitive coding skills that rarely matter in actual work. What we should test instead - and how hiring could improve....
Why Engineers Should Own Their Build System
Build systems have become black boxes that nobody understands. When they break, teams are helpless. Here's the case for simpler builds that engineers actually control....
Your Board Doesn't Understand Technology
Most boards lack technical expertise to evaluate software companies. The abstraction gap, misaligned time horizons, and translation problems create systematic misunderstanding that leads to bad decisi...
Feature Flags Are Technical Debt
Feature flags promised safe deployments but delivered hidden complexity. Research shows 73% never get removed, costing teams $125K+ yearly in maintenance overhead....
When to Fire Your First Engineering Hire
Your first engineering hire was perfect for building the prototype. But scaling requires different skills. Knowing when that transition has happened—and acting on it—is one of the hardest decisions fo...
The Shareware Model Nobody Remembers
Before SaaS and app stores, shareware let independent developers make money through an honor system. The model worked for decades and contains lessons about distribution, trust, and monetization that ...
Voice to Context to Action: A Framework for Operational Voice AI
Radio traffic is operational intelligence that vanishes into air. This framework for voice AI captures, interprets, and acts on voice data in minutes instead of hours....
The Platform Trap: Building on Someone Else's Land
Platform dependency killed Apollo, PostMyParty, and hundreds of apps when Twitter, Reddit, and Meta changed their APIs. Platform risk is existential risk. Here's how to recognize and mitigate it....
The Framework Treadmill: Why We Keep Relearning the Same Problems
The JavaScript framework ecosystem keeps solving the same problems with new syntax every 2-3 years. State management, routing, data fetching - we've reinvented these solutions dozens of times since 20...
Why Voice AI Demos Always Work (And Production Never Does)
Voice AI demos work perfectly. Production deployments fail. After a decade building speech systems, here's why the gap exists and how to bridge it....
Blockchain: The Solution Looking for a Problem
Blockchain has been 'revolutionary' for 15 years without revolutionizing anything. Every enterprise blockchain quietly becomes a regular database....
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