Career
Coding Was Never About Syntax
Everyone's asking if you should still learn to code. It's the wrong question. The job was never typing syntax. It was solving problems, and that hasn't changed.
Recent Entries
Career
Call It Noticing
A habit I've had for years and never had a word for: finding the one thing worth learning from almost everyone I work with.
Technical
Security Belongs Inside the SDLC, Not Bolted On
AI security agents like CodeMender and Claude Mythos are backstops. The real work is the in-flow layer of gates in front of them, and vendors are shipping it.
Technical
The Ergonomics of Cheap Tokens: Why I Swapped Gemini for Qwen
Alibaba's Qwen is dominating OpenRouter token charts. But moving a bootstrapped startup from Gemini to Qwen revealed the hidden price of open models: developer time.
Personal
A Nerd in Paris - A Travelog Part 3
Day 3 in Paris - A visit to Musée du quai Branly for African fashion, Louvre highlights with a great guide, and taking it easy on a sore knee.