I'm a software developer with 20+ years of experience building things you've probably used, from glitch to healthcare.gov. I've led teams, run engineering orgs, and shipped more code than I can reasonably claim to remember. Lately I've been working at the intersection of AI and healthcare, helping states move fast on their response to HR1.
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I've been writing things online in some form since 2004. This is an attempt to bring it all together, regardless of it's shape or completeness. I'm following a "digital garden" model, where some posts are seeds meant to grow and some are weird political takes from ten years ago frozen in amber.
After years of skepticism and months of daily use, here's what I've learned about actually working with AI coding agents. They're not replacing us, they're just really fast typers who need constant supervision. Plan first, stay engaged, review everything and the craft is still yours.
Before Subeta, before I knew I wanted to build communities, there was HeadBone Zone – a browser-based kids site that taught me everything about what the internet could be.
I love surfing the web, and I think we should all link to websites more often. Here are some links out to folks more interesting and clever than me.
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning
You can get almost everything done with Vanilla CSS.
I love Oakland, and I am so excited to go to more Oakland B's games next year. The community around the team is so fun, and I didn't really get a chance to experience that until the end of the first season.
Let me make the argument why you should start self-hosting more of your personal services.
An excellent guide to using modern CSS color techniques, that make it easy to spin up entire color systems with just a few properties