Field notes

Notes from building software, leading teams, and following ideas far enough to learn something.

  1. 1,200 AI Employees Just Asked the Government to Make Them Stop

  2. AI Just Escaped the Engineering Org

  3. Nobody Owns the Agent

  4. The Invisible Tax

  5. I Rebuilt My Own Website. Here’s Why.

  6. Raising, Mentoring, and Learning at the Same Time

  7. 127,000 Layoffs. AI Is Hiring. You're Still Sending the Same Resume.

  8. Nobody Knows How to Deploy This Thing

  9. Stop Treating AI Like a Chatbot

  10. Your Phone Is Now a Dev Tool. Kind Of

  11. The Specialist Is Dead. Long Live the Product Builder.

  12. Quick update

  13. Barn Sessions

  14. Ship Your First MCP Tool in 30 Minutes

  15. The Best Meetings I Ever Had Were With My Dog

  16. The AI Layoff Lie

  17. A Newsletter about Newsletters

  18. Join my new subscriber chat

  19. Special Edition: What can I use AI for?

  20. A Code Editor. Sixty Billion Dollars. A Rocket Company.

  21. Writing on Medium for now.

  22. Interviewing and HackerRank and Learning

  23. Interview Overload

  24. Interview Tutorials

  25. AppSeed.us Templates

  26. Learning how to learn

  27. Old Repositories and Sites

  28. Animate on Scroll

  29. Surface vs MacPro Setup

  30. Startups and Code - The Beginning

  31. Customer Service 101

  32. Interviewing 101

  33. Brawl Stars Deleted

  34. Previous and Next for Next js

  35. Getting started (again)

  36. Fully migrated to NextJS SSG

  37. Starting on NextJS

  38. Coding is not difficult

  39. Leadership Books

  40. Flask Tutorial Next Steps

  41. A Flask Tutorial Journey

  42. Learning a new programming language

  43. Code Writing Topics

  44. Christmas Time

  45. Social media damages

  46. Let's start at the beginning

  47. Technical Blogs vs Life Blogs

  48. Development Whys?

  49. Two Years in NYC

  50. Goal setting - FAST vs SMART

  51. The pursuit of happiness

  52. A week of DevOps on GCP

  53. Balancing life

  54. Getting stated with Python for the Web?

  55. Getting started in programming?

  56. Landing your dream tech job

  57. My slow conversion to Mac

  58. My Agile Rant

  59. Finding a good tech tutorial

  60. What really stifles innovation?

  61. Execution over Perfection

  62. Simplicity over Complex

  63. Practice does not make perfect

  64. Building Teams and Careers

  65. About not being the best

  66. DevOps Playbooks

  67. The Power of No

  68. Pursuit of knowledge

  69. I need to write - this one is for me.

  70. Turn around!

  71. New Year - New Goals

  72. How to be a leader without the title

  73. Azure Services - The Whole List

  74. Actual needed skills on a job posting.

  75. Keeping up with Technology

  76. Conversational UI - Why it will never be mainstream.

  77. The Developer Marketing Game

  78. The Angry Developer - Corporate Etiquette

  79. Corporate culture changes

  80. Why open-office layouts don't work

  81. Agile should die

  82. The Future of Development (Round 23,895)

  83. Software Development over 40

  84. Solving the problem

  85. Retention vs Recruiting - In Tech

  86. Practice, Resting, and Balance

  87. 5 steps to get started...

  88. My 30 day challenge and what I've learned

  89. 30 day challenge - 30 sites in 30 days

  90. Creating a new project

  91. Everyone has the same fear

  92. Agile is Dead

  93. Keeping up with technology

  94. Do open-office environments really work?

  95. I'm a coder, not a devops guru!

  96. The Corporate Hustle

  97. The Side Hustle Game

  98. Some ideas

  99. Meeting Rules - Why are we working so hard?

  100. Continuous Integration and Deployment - But WHY?

  101. My first solo subway ride!

  102. Angular 4 is out... but is it too late?

  103. The World of DevOps

  104. The love of a dog

  105. JavaScript fatigue is real

  106. Xamarin, ASPNET Core, Mac, and PC

  107. Keep learning to stay inspired and innovative

  108. Brooklyn, Seattle, Atlanta, New Orleans

  109. City Living so far...

  110. Moving to Brooklyn!

  111. Our next adventure

  112. Creating something that lasts

  113. JavaScript Coding Teaching challenge

  114. Coding Dojo - Code Practice

  115. Be Aware - a startup series (part 6/6)

  116. Deliver Early - a startup series (part 5/6)

  117. Listen First - a startup series (part 4/6)

  118. Be Polite - a startup series (part 3/6)

  119. Be Punctual - a startup series (part 2/6)

  120. That was easy... - a startup series (part 1/6)

  121. A Medium Summary of recent posts...

  122. VS Code - Open HTML using tasks

  123. Medium Posts are coming...

  124. Coding Best Practices - Really?

  125. Inspirational Coding

  126. A GitHub Post

  127. Knockout JS and Moment JS - an intro

  128. 3 CSS Tips that have helped me recently

  129. Planning blog posts

  130. Why WordPress and Azure suck together

  131. What I learned about blogging

  132. Choosing Frameworks

  133. WordPress Site Migration - Duplicator

  134. Surface Pro 3 - Is it really that great?

  135. Why vacations are important.

  136. Why your development practices are wrong.

  137. Not everyone should learn to code

  138. The WordPress Community

  139. Communication and Personalities

  140. Career Growth and Life Growth

  141. Leadership Styles - In a new world.

  142. Agile and the UI/UX Debate

  143. Writing again...

  144. What a long year...

  145. WordPress Plugin Development - My next attempt

  146. WordCamp Atlanta Roundup

  147. The Future of Development Processes

  148. CSS triangles with borders

  149. The Art of Doing Nothing

  150. Putting the pieces together - Product Management

  151. A new look, feel, and new direction

  152. Time is not scalable

  153. Looking Forward

  154. Remote Working and the end of 2013...

  155. So much to learn...

  156. Sky is the limit

  157. Getting things done - Holiday Motivation

  158. Culture Disruption

  159. Communication - Work, Life, and Home

  160. Website Performance tips

  161. Keeping up with blogs and technology.

  162. Connecting with your community

  163. Finding Opportunities

  164. Soft skills of development

  165. Be present this week.

  166. Why I like CrossFit vs a Gym

  167. WordPress Workflow and Plugins

  168. WordPress Plugin Upgrade

  169. Life, goals, and dreams

  170. Agile Software Development

  171. Startups and entrepreneurs

  172. Startup Weekend Atlanta 2013

  173. Workflow Management

  174. Plug-in Development (The Final Chapter)

  175. Getting in the groove of business...

  176. WordPress Plug-In Development (Round 2)

  177. WordPress Plug-In Development (a how-not-to series)

  178. WordPress Workflow

  179. Project Management Estimation

  180. Kanban - Project Management

  181. Agile Project Management

  182. WordCamp Atlanta and Corporate America

  183. Priorities and Career Paths

  184. New Projects, New Goals, Old Questions.

  185. Solving the problem

  186. Doing what I do...

  187. WordPress, Innovation, and Tools

  188. Managing code of egos

  189. My morning routine is starting again - TV is Dead.

  190. Comparison and Goal Setting

  191. Posting to get on track

  192. A long month, but doing well and nutrition debate.

  193. Catching up on life...

  194. Today's Epiphany

  195. Ready for the next Big Thing

  196. What is home?

  197. A long week...

  198. Food, fun, and life...

  199. Getting a groove...

  200. A weekend of innovation

  201. A Perfect Week

  202. Another week and SOOO much technology...

  203. Classes, Food, and a new Beginning

  204. Week 11 in Atlanta...

  205. Week 10 in Atlanta

  206. Week 9 in Atlanta

  207. Week 8 in Atlanta

  208. Week 7 in Atlanta

  209. Week 6 in Atlanta

  210. Week 5 in Atlanta

  211. Week 4 in Atlanta

  212. Week 3 in Atlanta

  213. Week 2 in Atlanta

  214. First week in atlanta...

  215. The halfway mark

  216. California?

  217. Going going gone...

  218. Getting ready for the final trip

  219. Farewell to Seattle

  220. Dessert in ballard

  221. Getting back to writing...

  222. Chunks trying to ride shotgun.

  223. Turning 40!

  224. Working on a bluetooth keyboard...

  225. Snow 2012

  226. A new year.

  227. Just writing.

  228. A day of testing...

  229. Doing what I do...

  230. Just saying hey!

  231. Been quiet.

  232. JavaScript and Server Development in the new world

  233. A blog shift...

  234. Inspired to write.

  235. The week of summer

  236. Code Samples being shared.

  237. A day of rest

  238. Day 10? - Ok I missed the weekend... so let's talk about consistency.

  239. Day 9 football is back

  240. Day 8 - Back to work

  241. Day 7 - Finally home in Seattle.

  242. Day 6 - A trip down memory lane...

  243. Day 5 - I did miss a day

  244. Day 4 - Visiting Home

  245. Day 3 - People Watching

  246. Day 2 - Writing...

  247. Writing challenge for myself.

  248. Life in the US now.

  249. I forgot about this blog. :-)

  250. A new day...

  251. Relationships - Part 2

  252. Managing Projects...

  253. Corporate America.

  254. Why the northwest?

  255. Relationships - Part 1

  256. Vacationing

  257. Another day off...

  258. In between jobs...

  259. Money does not buy happiness...

  260. Everyone has already said it...

  261. A Beautiful Wednesday.

  262. The Job Hunt

  263. A beautiful day

  264. Welcome to my new/old blog.

  265. Happy Easter

  266. Not a regular blogger...

  267. A new blog...

  268. Getting ready for a regular blog....