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Davidson, NC
Joined May 2015
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shoutout to @SonarSource, a great partner of F&F, for inspiring this one. You can see how their SonarQube product tackles the "vibe, then verify" problem: fandf.co/471ewPz
"No one else was in the room where it happened" ...
Great song lyric, not a great excuse for why production is down :-)
My takeaway from the AWS outage is that there’s simply no architecting around them at this point. Even if you are 100% redundant/multi-whatever, your customers won’t be. Order volume is dropping no matter what you do. We’re all in this together.
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What would ChatGPT and Claude tell you, if they could speak their minds?
Here's a new (very human-generated) song, "Meet the Models":
Best booth award at @AllThingsOpen easily goes to @herodevs. You will never forget that they do end-of-life support for OSS after walking through their haunted graveyard!
THIS is how you do booth marketing.
(zoom in to read the tombstones)
Planning to stop by All Things Open in Raleigh next week - who else will be there? Would love to say hi and catch up in person!
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Computers, technology, programming.
"Debugging Tactics." [By Forrest Brazeal, @forrestbrazeal, goodtechthings.com, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0]
I think this is less a “personality” and more “drugs”
A common social media interaction I will never understand:
Person A: makes easily disproved false claim
Person B: “that’s wrong, here is the correct fact+source.”
Person A: “OK, but my point stands.”
wtf no it doesn’t
Oh, it’s Appalachia too.
A few years ago, when our 3rd was a tiny baby, my wife and I brought her along on a weekend getaway at one of these fancy Blue Ridge resort towns.
People stared at us the way the villagers of Vulgaria stared at the kids in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
A random but somehow perfect fact:
Edward Packard, creator and frequent author of the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure series, is the grandfather of Superman actor David Corenswet.
Time to play Underrated Books.
Reply with a genre, I’ll recommend a book that doesn’t get talked about enough.
Tom Lehrer influenced me in profound ways - RIP to the greatest of all the musical satirists nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/…
My new favorite acronym is "D&A" - in publishing parlance that means "delivered and accepted".
The final draft of my very weird novel has officially passed muster with Ballantine and is off to copyedits.
Can't wait to share it with you!
Forrest Brazeal retweeted
It’s time to meet the teams for our first-ever #AIAgentBakeOff! 👩💻👨💻
We paired four brilliant developers with four Google Cloud experts and gave them just 3 hours to build a creative AI agent for retail.
Who has what it takes to win? Let's meet them 👇
[anduril sales presentation]
“While legacy generals are fighting the last war, our innovative new AI models will enable you to fight a weighted average of all previous wars simultaneously”