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Destination v Journey Engineering in the AI Age
Why craft still matters, why outcomes still win, and how to go as fast as you should.
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Today's Read: "The bottleneck was never the code" (Rémi Louf)
Enjoyed reading Rémi Louf's "The bottleneck was never the code" today. Lots of alignment with the "things have changed but also not really" feeling I've had for the past year or so. A few highlights…
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TIL OpenAI and Anthropic Half of Big Cloud’s Backlog?! (as of mid-2026)
I was initially surprised to see this. But on reflection… if I had to rank the top 5 companies by overall compute/AI demand that aren’t also clouds and also don’t run their own cloud, OpenAI and…
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An RTX 5080 basically just a 5090?!
Today I learned Nvidia X070, X080, X090 GPUs all use the same design! They’ll tend to just vary based on the # of cores that are pristine/working. Makes a ton of sense, but not something I would have…
2022
№ 046 Essay
Some Helpful, Free APIs I Run
I run a few APIs for the various side projects I tinker on; in this post, I wanted to share a little about them.
2021
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An Engineering Philosophy
It's been far too long since I've blogged. In this post, I want to reflect on some things I've learned as a senior engineer and try to synthesize them into a personal engineering philosophy.
2020
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Introducing isBusy: A Personal Status Page for Remote Work
I wanted to make things a little bit easier for my family and myself with all the adjustments happening, so I started on a little nights & weekends project: https://isbusy.app. The idea is simple: come up with an easy way for my family to understand if I'm busy and have it automatically sync with all my work and personal calendars.
№ 043 Essay
MongoDB Query Performance: Understanding the Query Planner & Advanced Index Types
In this post, we'll look at a few areas that are 'beyond the basics' for MongoDB performance. You'll gain some helpful tools like working with the query planner and knowing when to use specialized indexes.
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