The Rise of the Non-Technical Engineer
February 19, 2026 • ☕️ 5 min read
LLMs collapsed the beginner-to-intermediate curve in software. The result isn't just faster engineers. It's new engineers: a CFO, a dentist, a chef, a marketer. And they're going to want an API key.
The 12-Factor Process
February 12, 2026 • ☕️ 5 min read
Engineers don't make products anymore. They make product factories. Here are 12 factors for engineering teams built around that shift.
On Luck
January 19, 2026 • ☕️ 5 min read
This started as an email to my daughter about why fear holds us back. It turned into a probability argument for why the winning strategy in modern life isn't perfection, it's volume.
My wish for you, darling
September 30, 2025 • ☕️ 5 min read
An open letter to my daughter about happiness, games, and roses.
Integrate the Planet
March 20, 2025 • ☕️ 5 min read
Talk at move(data), San Francisco 2025
Grassroots Cycle Planning
December 17, 2024 • ☕️ 5 min read
A collaborative approach to aligning stakeholder goals and engineering priorities
Continents, Islands, and MVPs
October 26, 2024 • ☕️ 5 min read
A structured approach to defining features from vision to implementation
Mental Models for Programming
April 19, 2024 • ☕️ 5 min read
A comprehensive guide to mental models in software development, from code to business context
Mental Models for Simpler Code
January 22, 2024 • ☕️ 5 min read
Functional programming ideas that help reduce cognitive load and make systems easier to understand.
Creating Context: Loading Your Life into a Vector Database
November 15, 2023 • ☕️ 5 min read
Talk at Scale By The Bay, Oakland 2023
Work Culture for Distributed Teams
February 19, 2020 • ☕️ 5 min read
Life doesn't fall neatly into a 9-5 for everyone. There are appointments, sick children, dry cleaning, night owls and early birds. Life is hectic, people are different. We all know this. So why don't we build systems to account for this?
What if humans are deterministic?
November 11, 2019 • ☕️ 5 min read
What are we if we're not dictating our own thoughts and outcomes? The saying is "I think therefore I am". Should it now be "I'm statistically significant therefore I'm not"?
Let Business Write Business Logic [Talk]
November 8, 2019 • ☕️ 5 min read
Talk at The Big Elixir, New Orleans 2019
Fission Live
October 19, 2019 • ☕️ 5 min read
Talk at Diffusion, Berlin 2019
Let Business Write Business Logic [Blog]
May 31, 2019 • ☕️ 5 min read
Using Erlangs built-in lexing and parsing libraries we can easily define restricted and safe grammars that will let your business team define simple rules in your system. Essentially offloading arbirtrary business logic to the business team themselves.
How to write a super fast link shortener with Mnesia
September 18, 2018 • ☕️ 5 min read
Elixir, the Phoenix framework, and the Erlang VM allows us to make production ready systems fast, easily, and with very few moving parts. At this point, you can see where we’re going with this. Let’s…
How to read and write Mindful Minutes from iOS’s HealthKit
August 6, 2018 • ☕️ 5 min read
I absolutely love the route Apple has been going with their iOS SDK’s. (Their hardware not so much). Apple’s focus on security has allowed it to become a reliable company to trust your sensitive…
Writing a Reverse Proxy in just one line with Go
July 12, 2018 • ☕️ 5 min read
Leave your programming language hang ups at the door and come admire the best standard library I’ve ever come across. Choosing a Programming Language for a project shouldn’t be like declaring who…
Remote Engineer: What’s in my Bag
May 4, 2018 • ☕️ 5 min read
Not one to hide this opinion: I am a huge fan of remote work! I’m very vocal about my belief that this trend towards more distributed workplaces has no choice but to continue. However I’m not naive…
Setting up apollo-link-state for Multiple Stores
April 23, 2018 • ☕️ 5 min read
I want to touch on how to set up apollo-link-state to allow for support of multiple stores without interfering with one another. It boils down to that CreateClientState expects only one value for…
Storing Local State in React with apollo-link-state
April 23, 2018 • ☕️ 5 min read
GraphQL and its ecosystem are awesome and Apollo makes using it a pleasure. If you are writing a javascript application today I can’t stress enough how much simpler these two technologies will make…
Get notified of user signups and plan changes automatically using Postgres & Phoenix PubSub
April 2, 2018 • ☕️ 5 min read
A lot of time you need to make a system that can send out notifications to yourself or other users based on events, specifically events related to changes in your database. Postgres and Phoenix make…