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2026
2025
Book Review: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Musically palatable
Book Review: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
A surprising buddy cop, Holmes and Watson fantasy
Book Review: Sphere by Michael Crichton
Wonderfully adequate
Book Review: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Oh my God. Who the hell cares? - Peter Griffin
Apparently my wired headphones are technically wireless…
Sneaky sneaky sneaky…
The Senior Engineer’s Guide: Document Your Intent - An Anecdote
Holy crap, dude, that’s not what I meant!
Movie Review: Freaks
X-Men without boarding schools.
TV Review: Interior Chinatown: More than a rehash
I wish more authors exerted this much influence on their movie and TV adaptations.
The Senior Engineer’s Guide: Software Degredation - Part I - E-commerce and Auditability, An Anecdote
Software rots over time like those veggies in the back of your fridge.
Book Review: Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber
Unfortunately, sometimes regret only appears once you lose.
Giving up writing: A thought experiment
A casual bar question leads me down a thinky rabbit hole.
YAML keeps my recipes looking nice
I really just want to find ways to make my life easier.
Book Review: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Thanks, but no thanks.
Movie Review: Hereditary: So messed up, so awesome
Holy crap, what an experience!
2024
Book Review: A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
This is a book.
Book Review: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Maybe some day I’ll become Kung Fu Dad too…
The Giving Tree really stresses me out
This book is for kids???
The Senior Engineer’s Guide: The Gilded Rose Code Kata
I don’t much like the solutions I’ve seen, so I wrote my own.
New Project: I Ching - The Book of Change
I love using the I Ching as a meditation tool. You should give it a try!
Book Review: Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
I related to this book a little more than I’m comfortable with…
The Ultimate Writing Advice: Write like nobody’s watching
You just gotta let yourself do what you like.
A developer journal can help you get your next software engineering job
Or: How I can do myself a favor and stop relying on my terrible memory.
Good readers make better writers - guidelines for critiquing work from your peers (and yourself!)
The practice of reading and critiquing is essential to improving your own skill as a writer.
AI and the writing process: Creative catalyst, and sympathy for NaNoWriMo
AI models are tools. Their virtue lies entirely in how we employ them.
The worth of an MFA program is always going to be a mystery
Is it worth pursuing an MFA?
How I met The Prime Minister of Dick and learned how to do my thing
A fervent belief in oneself is infectious.
Writing as a parent, or how to be good at anything
In which Richard Ford keeps giving bad advice.
Software interviews are kind of messed up
Everyone in the tech industry knows that software engineering interviews are awful and very few companies have done something about it.
Depression and bad friend advice in The Pout-Pout Fish
I feel bad for Mr. Fish…
What does it mean to translate?
Translation depends more on how well you know English than it does on how well you know your source language.