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The most valuable code I’ve written in the past six months is code I fully intend to throw away. This isn’t some zen programming philosophy or agile methodology talking point. It’s the practical reality of using Claude Code to build prototypes and...
In the late 1990s, companies like Global Crossing spent tens of billions building fiber-optic networks that would supposedly revolutionize telecommunications. The infrastructure was real, the technology transformative, but the economics never work...
There’s a revolution brewing in enterprise software development, and it’s happening in the least expected place: line of business (LOB) applications. You know, those unglamorous internal tools that run payroll, track inventory, manage customer rec...
I had a conversation with a friend recently that crystalized something I’ve been thinking about for months. He was frustrated with agentic coding tools - expected them to excel at straightforward tasks like reorganizing files and fixing imports, b...
Ten years ago, I wrote about Dan McKinley’s classic blog post Choose Boring Technology and its resonance with my own development philosophy. My conclusion then was simple: when spinning up a new project, I consider whether I’m using it as an excus...
Twenty years ago, I was working on Visual Studio at Microsoft when I had an encounter that still sticks with me today. I was manning a booth at a trade show, demonstrating new IDE features in Visual Studio 2005, when a developer approached me with...
I’ve been using agentic coding tools like Claude Code for a few months now, and I keep thinking about how to explain what this feels like to other developers. It’s not the stochastic parrot that critics dismiss it as, but it’s also not the Skynet ...
My conceptual photography project, Simulacra and Simulation, is featured in the latest issue of the photographic and literary journal, Dear Dave,. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dear Dave, magazine (@deardavemag)
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