All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
There's a version of this story where AI coding tools are the great equalizer — where anyone with a good idea can build production software regardless of experience. That story is being told constantly right now, and it's mostly wrong. The uncomfortable truth is that these tools are amplifiers. They take what you already know and make you faster a...
I have written production code in Kotlin, Typescript/Javascript, Java, Scala, Python, Go, C# and more. I have built metering systems in C# and Go and am constantly reminded of why I always pick up Go every time when given the choice. After years of working across these ecosystems, I keep coming back to the same conclusion: Go is the best language ...
A recent conversation with a colleague highlighted a fundamental disconnect in how we discuss and market artificial intelligence capabilities. When exploring how large language models (LLMs) actually function, they expressed frustration with the gap between marketing promises and technical reality—drawing a pointed comparison to Tesla's self-drivin...
Introduction At its core, for comprehension is a syntactic construct that allows you to write a sequence of expressions that are executed in a loop. The loop iterates over some collection, generating a value on each iteration, and applies some operations to that value. The result is a new collection that is created by combining the values generate...
Flask is a popular micro web framework for Python that makes it easy to build small web services, including REST APIs. REST APIs are web services that use the REST architectural style, which provides a standardized way of accessing and manipulating data over the web. Here is an example of a Flask app that uses SQLAlchemy, an object-relational mapp...
I. Introduction Our client was a marketing & advertising company experiencing high bounce rates and poor email deliverability. The services they were using previously had stopped working, and the cost of the SaaS applications on the market that offered similar functionality was too high and didn't fully solve their issues. To address these challe...
In this blog post, we'll be looking at a piece of code that verifies email addresses in batches. This can be useful in a variety of scenarios, such as cleaning up a database of email addresses or checking the validity of a list of email addresses that have been collected through a sign-up form....
Network design is an essential part of any business's IT infrastructure, as it determines the performance, reliability, and security of the network. A well-designed network can support the growth and success of a business, while a poorly designed network can cause disruptions, outages, and security vulnerabilities. One of the key considerations in...
Small business networks have come a long way in recent years, offering a variety of features and capabilities that were once only available to larger organizations. From security and VLANs to QoS and logging, these networks provide a range of tools that can help businesses keep their data and networks safe and running smoothly. One of the key comp...
Network-attached storage (NAS) is a type of storage system that connects to a network and provides file-based data storage services to clients (desktops, phones, etc). It is often used by small businesses as a cost-effective and scalable alternative to traditional storage solutions, such as direct-attached storage (DAS) or storage area networks (SA...
Kubernetes is a popular open-source platform for managing and deploying containerized applications in the cloud. It has quickly become an essential tool for businesses of all sizes, as it enables them to easily deploy and scale their applications in the cloud, and take advantage of the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of cloud computing environme...