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The True Value of Startups: Network and Learning
After leaving my last startup gig at Opto, I got a text from two of my former colleagues that reminded me why the real value of working at a startup goes way …
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why not do something magical with your coding skills?
Last week, I built a Zydeco and Cajun events calendar for someone who's been keeping the Bay Area dance scene alive for years. Total time invested: 3 hours. …
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Quality is the only moat left
The marginal cost of plausible bullshit is now effectively zero. When everyone can publish and AI handles the grunt work, what survives? Resonance.
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LLMs let you show, not tell
The Agile Manifesto nailed it: Working software over comprehensive documentation. Twenty years later, we're still writing specs nobody reads.
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The authenticity paradox: why being real online requires strategic curation
We're told to be authentic online while being rewarded for carefully curated content. This tension is destroying our ability to build genuine connections. …
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The punk rock guide to learning - embrace productive discomfort with programming languages
Six months ago, I threw out my comfortable Python stack and switched to Clojure. Not because it was 'better' - but because sometimes the best way to level up is …
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Skip the API circus: /standup-report basics in 5 minutes, spend the rest of your time on storytelling
Yesterday I needed standup reports. Instead of being stuck in SDK hell, I created a Claude slash command that took 5 minutes to set up using MCP.
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Applying Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles to Writing & Content
Walk into any marketing department or agency and you'll find a peculiar phenomenon: rooms full of people talking about content instead of creating it. Coming …
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In Defense of Working Alone
Let's talk about the elephant in every conference room: corporate teamwork is largely a joke. You know it. We know it. But somehow, we're all still pretending …
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From Internal Shortcut to Business Critical: When Automation Becomes Infrastructure
That Slack bot you built in a weekend? It's now processing 10k requests daily and nobody knows how it works. Learn how to manage the transition from personal …
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Putting it on Autopilot: Five Areas You Can Actually Fire-and-Forget as a Startup CISO
Stop cosplaying enterprise security. Here's what you can actually automate without losing sleep - from compliance to endpoint security.
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Security Theatre & What Actually Protects Your Code
Your SOC 2 badge won't stop hackers. Here's what will - a hard look at security theater versus practices that actually work.
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Why Technical Leaders Need to Think Like Marketers
Your code is elegant. Your architecture is sound. So why is nobody funding your project? Learn how to sell technical initiatives internally.
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Dock Timer Hack: Break Email Addiction with macOS Automation
A simple bash script that temporarily removes apps from your dock to break muscle memory habits and improve focus
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Skronk and Skreigh: Building an Irish Tune Practice Toolkit
A Python tool for managing Irish traditional music practice sessions, extracting tune sets from recordings, and creating Spotify playlists with multiple …
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When Your Quote Collection Looks Like a Junk Drawer
Learn how Claude Code automated the cleanup of 1300+ messy quotes into a standardized format. Transform years of copy-pasted wisdom into a working …
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Irish song of the day - with google sheets and pipedream
Learning an Irish song of the day - every day - with google sheets and pipedream
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That one where a slack quotes formatting screws your code up again...
That one where a slack formatting issue screws you again...
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Using Slack Shortcuts and LLMs to question everything
Using Slack Shortcuts and LLMs to question everything
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Midi Concertina - my second instrument attempt
Midi Concertina - my second instrument attempt!
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Getting better at Python / becoming a professional developer
Getting better at Python / becoming a professional develope!
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YouSum on the Command line - a CLI function for summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!
YouSum on the Command line - a CLI function for summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!
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Boosting Blog SEO with AI: Smarter Titles, Tags, and Meta Descriptions
Discover how AI can optimize your blog's titles, meta descriptions, and tags for better SEO without losing authenticity. Learn about the tools and processes …
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YouSum - summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!
YouSum - summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!
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Old electronic music efforts from a decade past...
Old electronic music efforts from a decade past...
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SlackZen - just leave (tm) - and the noise of the modern office
SlackZen - just leave (tm). experience to clean feeling of just leaving a bunch of slack channels
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Marimo - a great new tool for building micro- & internal apps
Marimo - a great new tool for building micro- & internal apps
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Thoughts on Return-To-Office and Agile Manifesto
Thoughts on Return-To-Office and Agile Manifesto
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Building My Brand: A Hands-On Marketing Challenge for 2025
Join me on a journey to build my personal brand in 2025 using innovative marketing strategies and tools. Explore practical insights and learnings from my …
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Man/Machine/Marketing - applying lessons from DevOps and Finance product development to digital marketing
Man/Machine/Marketing - applying lessons from DevOps and Finance product development to digital marketing
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Extract just the Accordion out of a song / mix
Extract just the Accordion out of a song / mix
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Cute Accordion tricks - transposition and translation
Cute Accordion tricks - transposition and translation
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Using AI to Entice Employees to Python — Paul Pereyda Karayan & Emmanuel Uwakwe (PyBay 2024)
Using AI to Entice Employees to Python — Paul Pereyda Karayan & Emmanuel Uwakwe (PyBay 2024)
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Building a Cajun Accordion I can live with... [brief edition]
Building a Cajun Accordion I can live with...
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Aqua and Hotkeys to write blogs posts quickly - and then Loom AI makes a surprise appearance!
Boost productivity with Aqua transcription hotkeys & discover Loom's AI-powered Linear ticket generation
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llm - for command line LLM Prototyping
Speed up LLM prototyping with the 'llm' CLI tool - iterate prompts quickly using VS Code hotkeys
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Aliases I have known and loved
Time-saving bash aliases and zsh configurations for developers working with Git, K8s, and AWS
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All about how I use VSCode - especially the integrated terminal
Master VSCode with terminal integration, essential plugins, and time-saving keyboard shortcuts
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Defect Injection testing - the lost art of 'Bedbugging'
Learn how defect injection (bedbugging) ensures your tests catch bugs using MITMProxy & Chaos Engineering
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read my blog posts to me, please? now with command line browser cleanup action!
Use w3m and macOS 'say' command to listen to blog posts while multitasking - simple CLI solution
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How to use just one task tracker without lock-in; well sorta
Python script to sync tasks between Linear and Things3, avoiding vendor lock-in while keeping privacy
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LLMs for Translating Silicon Valley to MBA speak
Use AI to bridge communication gaps between neurodivergent directness and workplace diplomacy
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Harnessing High Energy: Tips for Staying Productive
Learn effective strategies to boost productivity and maintain focus as a high-energy professional. Discover tips for structuring work, maintaining balance, and …
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Slaying Software Zombies with LLMs (and lesser incantations)
dealing with metacode (tests, docs, bugs, requirements etc...) that are no longer completely accurate (thus, zombies) due to not being in sync with the product …
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Building a Cajun Accordion I can live with... [mega edition]
Building a Cajun Accordion I can live with...
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Provocative Post about Planning Products!
Explore bold strategies for prioritizing customer experience in product development. Learn how to avoid overplanning and focus on what truly matters to your …
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