Posts

How a younger me chose C over Ada, and what that choice taught me about how we pick technologies.

Technical debt isn’t always the enemy. Sometimes it’s a deliberate trade-off that lets you move forward.

How conversations with Kathy Sierra changed the way I think about teaching and writing Storm Applied.

Behind-the-scenes vignettes from writing Storm Applied — rejected subtitles, manuscript struggles, and The Jam.

Why I’d rather have a tool that’s good enough everywhere than one that’s perfect at one thing.