If you’re taking time carefully golfing functions down into graceful, fluent, minimal functional expressions, alarm bells should ring. You’re yak-shaving. The real work has depleted your focus. You’re not building: you’re self-soothing. – My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts I still don’t know much about
I'm fascinated by the idea of dumb phones. The Light Phone 3 looks like a sexy French cigarette case. The Minimal Phone is a throwback to the Blackberry. The idea behind some of these phones is to cure you from the brain-rot of the always with you social
The general wisdom is that it shouldn’t matter if no one cares what you do. You should do things based on intrinsic motivations rather than extrinsic ones. In other words, you shouldn’t do things based on the validation from others—you should do things based on your own
There's been so much talk about "vibe coding". I've watched over a dozen videos on YouTube about the term and I have read a couple dozen more articles on the topic. There seems to be more "anti-vibers" than "pro-vibers" out
I don’t know if it’s a good idea to be sharing this but I had a colonoscopy. I suppose because I feel like medical things should be private, but then again I consented for my “privacy” to be invaded for about 19 minutes. It’s ok, I don’
Still trying to figure out what's next for me. That's the problem though. Why do I think I need to figure anything out? I keep defaulting into this state of anxiety that I need to figure out my purpose in life and if I don'
After nearly three years, my time as a Teaching Assistant at the 2U/edX Coding Bootcamp officially ended on March 13, 2025. And with it, maybe the last thread tying me to the dream of being a Software Engineer. It was a part-time, contract job—part-time because it was three
Hey all! I wanted to drop in with a bit of exciting news and be completely transparent about it. As you might’ve noticed, I only have a handful of articles on here so far (three, to be exact) and a small but supportive group of readers. While building this
It’s a common piece of advice given in the context of career development: “Programming is just problem-solving.” But what does that even mean? What are you supposed to do with that information?
The debate about whether HTML is a "real" programming language is as old as the internet itself. Tim Carmody wrote an excellent essay on the importance of HTML and on why it's absolutely a real programming language. One of my favorite takes on the debate is
Let's get this one out of the way first. Every time I start a new thing on the internet–be it a new social media account or a new blog–I never know what to put in my bio. I don't know what to put in