Jan 22How Chat GPT impacts software developers. An alternative narrativeA lot of emotionally charged articles and responses on this topic. But few take a thoughtful, measured approach. Which is what I’ve tried to do. This article is not about what AI could eventually be, it is concerned with the present and near future. …Software Development4 min readSoftware Development4 min read
Jan 11How to pick projects to work on. What I wish I new starting out.If you work a 9–5 job avoid the trap many folks fall into. We choose a project based on the wrong reasons and bad assumptions. Many engineers want to work on the most important systems in the company. They want the prestige that comes with being associated with it. But…Software Development3 min readSoftware Development3 min read
Jan 4AI generated videos with voice instead of documentation.For most of my career I didn’t enjoy reading or writing documentation. It constantly went out of date. Javadocs, markdown and generators helped but images and diagrams were a pain. Then Plant UML came along, which changed the game. You could now fully version all docs, text and diagrams with…Software Development3 min readSoftware Development3 min read
Dec 7, 2020How to combat your bias in creative problem solvingI read an article where Peter Diamandis argued if you want your company to innovate, ask a 20 something how they would solve your problems. This got me thinking, are we unable to think creatively after 30? Is 20's the sweet spot? Would a 15 year old be able to…Startup7 min readStartup7 min read
Oct 21, 2020Alexa for Developers in 150 lines of PythonA week or so ago I was working on a software project. I got into a good flow and was making progress. Then I started getting DM’d by numerous people, some urgent emails came in, I ran into a technical issue in the code I needed to solve. It got…Bash5 min readBash5 min read
May 17, 2018An alternative to Apple’s paid private business model and Facebook’s free (but data mined) model. Inspired by Ethereum’s DOAThe Cambridge Analytica scandal started a debate between the leadership at Apple and Facebook over the effectiveness of paid versus free business models. Apple argues for a paid business model that charges users to use their products and services. Facebook argues for free services with revenues originating from selling customer…AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
