Some [infrequent] Writing

Tools Learned in 2017

December 05 2017

In spite of doing an extremely poor job of keeping any writing up to date on this site, I am going to start doing annual recaps of what I have learned over the past year. I am not totally convinced that I will use the same broad categories year-over-year, but...

Abstracting Complexity

November 30 2016

Near the end of last year, I came across this on HN and was mesmerized. Side by side screenshots of the desktops of some titans of software development, taken 13 years apart.

Just Part of the Stack

January 19 2016

I have written previously on the “Internet of Things” being a terrible moniker–it’s not about the fact that something is connected.

Posits on the Internet of Things

December 29 2015

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the so-called ‘Internet of Things.’ It’s such a poorly chosen buzzword because it calls too much attention to the fact that devices will be connected, which will fade to the background over time–the layers on top of the connection are what matter.