Welcome to my personal technical blog! Here you’ll find posts about programming, automation, and various tech topics that interest me.
Recent Posts
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Neki Meets DynamoDB
Recently PlanetScale announced Neki, a system for operating sharded Postgres at massive scale. As someone who’s used Postgres in anger, this got my attention. Real Postgres, with a routing layer built by people who’ve spent years operating Vitess. That’s a pretty appealing starting point.
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LLMs Are for Builders
“Coffee is for closers” is a great line because the coffee is not really coffee.
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Should I Stop the Train? Systems Engineering and the Future of Writing Code
Before I was a web guy, I was a train guy. Or more accurately, I was a software guy who happened to work at a train company. This distinction mattered more than you might think.
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Emacs and AI
I’ve been running a gptel + gptel-agent setup in Emacs for a while now, and it’s fundamentally changed how I work. Here’s why I think gptel-agent is the best way to do agentic AI workflows if you’re already an Emacs user.
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Vibing Twisp Tutorials
Like everyone else in tech, I get a little twitchy when the South Park crew chants “They’re taking our jerbs!” So let’s get that out of our system real quick: