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You Still Have to Put the Effort In: My Standards for AI-Assisted Blogging
Readers Can Tell When Nobody Chose You know the feeling. You click a link, read two paragraphs, and something goes flat behind your eyes. Theread more...
Recent Blog Posts
Check out my latest thoughts and experiences
Your Codebase Isn't the Hard Part of Onboarding
Ramp-Up Is the Most Expensive Thing You Buy When you bring in someone external, you pay for onboarding twice. You pay for their time while Read more...
Use a Graph Database Like It's SQLite
I Love Graph Databases, But I Never Actually Run One Look, I've wanted a knowledge graph of my own infrastructure repo for about two years. Read more...
Every Box I Haven't Logged Into Is Running a Month-Old Config
I Love My NixOS Fleet, But Half of It Is Stale My fleet has always been deployed pull-style: SSH into the box, git pull, nh os switch. It Read more...
My Quantitative Trading Bot Runs the Lights Now
The Market Was Closed, So I Gave the Bot Another Job The first smoke test was not subtle. I opened Telegram and asked Quantance, my Read more...