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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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:
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Redshift, Parquet, and the case of a cup of COPY.
As the CTO of my desk at Twisp, I have a lot of responsibilities. One of them is pretending I’m a world class data engineer. So when I saw messages from data pipeline slowly piling up in a DLQ… I knew it was time to spring into action.
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Bash One-Liners for Lichess Puzzle Sleuthing
Chess tactics and shell scripts make an oddly satisfying pairing. Here are the bash one-liners I use to spot my own games inside the ever-growing Lichess puzzle set.