My First Computer
1977 was the year everything started. The Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET created personal computing....
The Real Cost of Cheap GPUs
Alternative GPU clouds offer 50-80% savings over hyperscalers. The AI revolution is being democratized, but AWS would prefer you didn't know....
Agile Is a Cargo Cult
Standups, sprints, and story points without the underlying values. How Agile became a certification industry that produces the opposite of agility....
Debugging Before Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow launched in 2008. For the first thirty years of my career, 'Google the error message' wasn't an option....
The Myth of the 10x Engineer
I've been called a 10x engineer - sometimes 20x. The variation in programmer productivity is real....
What Prodigy Taught Me About Walled Gardens
Prodigy invested $1 billion building walls that collapsed when the open internet arrived. The pattern has repeated with every major walled garden since....
The Rewrite Trap: Why 90% of Rewrites Fail
Software rewrites fail 90% of the time. The Netscape disaster proved it. Here's why incremental improvement beats the clean slate fantasy, and what to do instead....