I Solved Spam in the 90s (Nobody Cared)
In the 1990s, I built RUM (Real User Mail) - a challenge-response system to fight spam. It worked. I never released it. Years later, the industry reinvented it....
I Evaluated Dozens of Blockchain Startups in 2018
What I learned doing technical due diligence on blockchain startups seeking funding. The technology works - for exactly one use case. Everything else fails the database test....
Speaker Diarization: The Hardest Problem Nobody Talks About
Why Zoom transcripts attribute quotes to the wrong people. The cocktail party problem isn't solved - it's hidden. Multi-device synchronization as a workaround....
The NFT Crash Was Predictable
NFTs crashed 95% from their 2021 peak. This was predictable from the start. Artificial scarcity of infinitely reproducible digital files was never going to hold value....
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....
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....
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 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...
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....
Founder Ego Kills Startups Faster Than Bad Code
Startups die from ego before they die from competition. Pride that can't hear feedback, founders who can't fire themselves, and the delusion that vision equals execution. 45 years of watching it happe...
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