Delicately complex, yet understated.
In the Bay Area, everyone is obsessed with scale. Almost everyone is chasing the unicorn, the dent in the universe, the next big thing. That focus pushes conversations around massive architectures, horizontal scaling, global distribution, and venture funding that demands hockey-stick growth quarter after quarter and year after year. But…
One amazing thing about extra free-time is the ability to dabble. And dabbling plus the power of vibe coding can yield some fascinating results when it comes to building MVPs and PoCs. After my stint in the identity security space, I kept asking myself why there wasn’t a better solution…
I tend to agree with the creative premise that Everything is a Remix. Even so, I’m still a little conflicted on the use of AI-music tools. I understand the source of all this data is the blood, sweet, tears and emotions of real artists that have taken decades and lifetimes…
AI helped me turn breakup lyrics from 2011 into an actual song!Its about 90% of what was in my head all those years ago. I hope you enjoy all the young angst. https://suno.com/song/bcc51848-2e04-4bd4-9993-51b77d13a447
When I was a technical seller, I used to have a joke that if our product couldn’t do it today – a Cloudflare Solutions Engineer could do it tomorrow. We had an amazing, highly technical team that could deploy some edge side code, python some APIs together, or stand up…
I decided to take up mentoring as a way to give back. I realized that when I was just getting out of college and starting out in my career, that there really wasn’t a lot of feedback loops available. Within the school system, you have a pretty regimented system of…
Decades ago, when a young programmer poet at the University of Toledo, I had the unique honor of taking a writing course taught by Rane Arroyo. He was a fascinating person, and a great teacher. He pushed for us to evolve cliches to make them unique again, to take a strong position…
Is the future a Winner-Take-All world or one open to a Million Mild Successes? It is amazing talking to people getting into the Crypto world and just starting to learn about the technologies. They often speak of speculative comparisons like which coin will win, which blockchain will do better than…
Burning Man is humanity’s middle finger to an uncaring universe. Burning Man takes place in the Nevada dessert. Its extremely hot and bright during the day, and can become bitterly cold and completely dark at night. It is almost completely inhospitable. The term dusty is an understatement as the…
I’m a big fan of revisiting old ideas and iterating on them. Its always fascinating using an old concept or framework on a new problem and seeing how well it stands up. Recently, I’ve been noticing the company I’ve been working at, Cloudflare, is slowly re-inventing itself from within and…