Writing on software, technology, music and more. Published infrequently.

  1. FeaturedOctober 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM · Rebuilding this site, 1/3Moving out of the house I builtI co-founded Concrete CMS. I'm still its core team leader. But this blog doesn't run on it anymore. Does that feel strange? You bet.
  2. October 9, 2026 at 4:58 PMWide as an ocean, deep as a puddleSoftware used to disappoint me the same way every time: it did a little bit of everything and not much of anything. With Claude, I can keep drilling into one feature. Who knows how deep it goes?!
  3. October 7, 2026 at 1:50 PM“Can we rename this?”Why does one innocuous question make every developer sweat?
  4. October 6, 2026 at 3:31 PMFrom vibe to live: why is it so hard to pull the trigger on agentic codebases?Vibe coding an app in a vacuum is easy. Pointing an agent at a codebase that's already live is easy too. Getting from the first to the second is a special kind of friction. Why?
  5. October 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM · Rebuilding this site, 3/3I designed this format for me, but Claude likes it better.Every post on this site is a plain text file with a little YAML on top. I picked that for my text editor, git and Astro, but the biggest payoff was one I never considered.

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  1. Thoughts on Rush in Seattle: it is preposterous that Alex and Geddy are in their 70s. Geddy hasn’t sounded this good in 15 years (maybe longer). Anika Nilles is an absolute beast. Loren was there. (Ok, next go-around let’s play some songs off of Power Windows so he can have a little more to do.)

  2. Not sure how I refactored before LLMs.

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  3. Even after the heat death of the universe, you’ll still get emails saying you’re over your Dropbox storage limit.

  4. Wolf 359 may just be the GOAT audio drama.

  5. Currently working on posting directly to the website using Siri. Is this the future?

  6. Watching a machine churn through your job in seconds really does a number on the ol’ imposter syndrome.

  7. T minus 10 days and counting til I get to see these guys again.

    rush.comRush.com | Official News and Information about the Legendary Rock Band Rush ↗

  8. Excited to try out Coderabbit.ai. The current pace of unassisted GitHub-only code review is…unsustainable.

    coderabbit.aiCoderabbit ↗

  9. Maybe there are those out there who love Keynote, Powerpoint, Google Sheets and the like. As for me…I don’t think I’ll ever go back to creating a presentation without Claude Design

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