Writing

Essays

Agent-native engineering, and everything I wrote on the way here.

2021 · Jun Checking the Weather with Phillips Hue Light Bulbs Working from home during the pandemic created opportunities for short walks throughout the day. With a baby, this is all the more tempting. Unfortu... 2021 · Jun Building a Newborn Simulator The mechanics of caring for a newborn child are surprising and fascinating. It’s both challenging and simple at the same time. And it’s not like an... 2020 · May Newborn daughter Our daughter Maya was born just in time for lunch on April 25, 2020 at 11:55 AM. 👶 2018 · Sep Authentication in ASP.NET Core Web API with Amazon Cognito Amazon Cognito is the user management and authentication product in AWS. It allows for unified sign-up and sign-in flows across web and mobile apps. 2017 · Mar Honeymoon in Maldives This must to be the most beautiful place on the planet. When we arrived at Hadahaa Island in the Maldives for our honeymoon this year we immediatel... 2016 · Sep Interviewing developers I hear it a lot in Kansas City: “We can’t find good engineering talent,” followed by some excuse. 2016 · Sep Moments between the minutes I learned to play guitar in the moments between the minutes. 2016 · Sep Kindle 2 The Kindle 2 is the perfect product. I bought mine almost ten years ago. Today, that same exact unit goes with me everywhere I go. It isn’t annoyin... 2016 · Mar The perfect notebook system for getting things done I accidentally invented the single best system to keep a pocket notebook. It turns out it’s really not so difficult at all. In fact, it turns out t... 2016 · Feb Blogging is backwards Though I’m constantly tempted, I just can’t seem to keep up a blog. I just find the format to be weird. Blogs are series of loosely related thought... 2014 · Oct It’s the little things in my Google Inbox Google Inbox isn’t some great innovation in the industry. It’s just one step toward making e-mail fun again.