Building DSA Dojo: A CLI-Driven Approach to Learning Data Structures and Algorithms
I'm building my own data structures and algorithms course—a CLI-driven, ladder-based system where mastery comes through doing, not watching. Here's...
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A conversation with Tim Hopper on spec-driven development, Beads for task tracking, and how AI agents have changed my planning habits.
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2025: My Year In Review
Reflections on a year of milestones—getting engaged in Florence, publishing with O'Reilly and the AEA, raising a Series A at Workhelix, and overcom...
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Adding Text-to-Speech to Your Blog: Building an OpenAI TTS Pipeline with Smart Chunking and AWS S3
A technical deep-dive into building a production-ready text-to-speech pipeline for blog posts using OpenAI's TTS API, smart text processing with NL...
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Tools and Strategies for Agentic Development (Into the Hopper Podcast)
A conversation with Tim Hopper on spec-driven development, Beads for task tracking, and how AI agents have changed my planning habits.
Building DSA Dojo: A CLI-Driven Approach to Learning Data Structures and Algorithms
I'm building my own data structures and algorithms course—a CLI-driven, ladder-based system where mastery comes through doing, not watching. Here's...
2025: My Year In Review
Reflections on a year of milestones—getting engaged in Florence, publishing with O'Reilly and the AEA, raising a Series A at Workhelix, and overcom...
Adding Text-to-Speech to Your Blog: Building an OpenAI TTS Pipeline with Smart Chunking and AWS S3
A technical deep-dive into building a production-ready text-to-speech pipeline for blog posts using OpenAI's TTS API, smart text processing with NL...
Extending 'GPTs Are GPTs' to Firms
A new paper on the impact of AI on labor demand at the firm level.
Host Your Own Local LLM / RAG Behind a Private VPN, Access It From Anywhere
A step-by-step guide on hosting your own private Large Language Model and RAG system using Synology, Tailscale, Caddy, and Ollama—all protected beh...
2024: My Year In Review — AI, Archery, and Goals
Reflections on a year of growth, experimentation, and resilience—covering professional wins, personal pursuits like archery and lifting, and the ch...
2023: My Year In Review
A reflection on a year of growth, gratitude, teaching, travel, and paying off the final student loan. Here’s what I accomplished in 2023 and what I...
What Are AI Agents? An Introduction to AI Agents and LLMs
I wrote a book for O'Reilly Media about AI agents and LLMs, exploring what they are, how they're different from traditional AI, and when to use the...
Publishing for O'Reilly
A reflection on the upcoming release of 'What Are AI Agents?' and the significance of joining the ranks of O'Reilly authors—a milestone shaped by l...
I Paid Off $194k in Student Loans in Six Years. It Wasn’t Easy.
I graduated with $150k in debt and paid back over $194k in six years. This is the story of how I got there, what I learned, and what came next.
I Waited 9 Years to Write This: On The Death of a Friend
On the ninth anniversary of Sarah McCausland’s passing, a reflection on grief, memory, and the enduring questions that follow the loss of a friend ...
2022: My Year in Review
A personal recap of the milestones, memories, and goals that shaped 2022—from paying off loans and co-organizing NormConf to hiking Sequoia and bui...
Building an HTTPS Model API for Cheap: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying APIs to AWS on Your Own Domain
A straight-to-the-point guide for deploying a Dockerized FastAPI app on AWS using ECS, ECR, Route 53, and an Application Load Balancer—ideal for de...
The *Right* Way to Maintain Multiple GitHub Accounts Using 1Password's SSH Key Agent
A walkthrough for managing multiple GitHub accounts with 1Password's SSH key integration, covering common pitfalls and offering a cleaner setup tha...
Legacy Naming Conventions Are Holding Us Back
A case for naming internal services with intention—favoring names that are intuitive, easy, and specific over clever or obscure references. A littl...
Pandas Functions: Advanced Groupbys with Grouper, Assign, and Query
A technical walkthrough on advanced uses of Pandas groupbys, showcasing time-based aggregations, lambda expressions, and inline data manipulation w...
On the Origin of Time-Sharing Computers, Round-Robin Algorithms, and Cloud Computing
An exploration of time-sharing's origins—from Cold War military investments and Project MAC to the round-robin algorithm—and how these foundational...