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Burned by the vibe

I talk about my bad experience with relying on chatGPT to write my code for a school project

How Hospitals Can Build Patients’ Trust

Trust is an essential part of healthcare in hospitals. Patients need to have faith that their healthcare provider is giving them correct medical advice, suggesting the best treatment, and prescribi...

Birds • Art

The Platonic Case Against AI Slop

Content generated by artificial intelligence reduces variety and poignant outliers. This harms viewers by training them to want and expect conformism and uniformity. The post The Platonic Case Agai...

Introducing Pale Blue Spring Admin: auto-generated admin UI for Spring Boot

Pale Blue Spring Admin brings Django-style auto-generated admin power to Spring Boot. Built in Kotlin, it offers an intuitive UI for exploring your JPA entities.

Is Kubernetes Ready for AI? Google’s New Agent Tech | TSG Ep. 967

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, and Chris Short discuss the state of Kubernetes following the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 conference.

The Trouble With TUIs

I discuss the issues that crop up while writing and using a Terminal User Interfaces

Red Hat EX374 exam

Earlier this month, I sat the Red Hat EX374 exam to renew my Red Hat Certified Specialist in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform certification. As I’m already a Red Hat Certified...

Innovation in Education

Another post being negative about generative AI

Innovation in Education

Another post being negative about generative AI

Linkfest #41: The "Chthulucene", Doom on a Satellite, and The Ethics of Selling a Haunted House

Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, in which I offer up the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that I could pan from the glittering, unceasing cr...

The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performa...

Synchronisationbegriffe - WIP

Entschuldigung für mein kaputtes Deutsch. :) Die Hauptfrage ist, was die Anforderungen für eine korrekte Synchronisationsimplementierung (z.B. eines Locks) sind? Es gilt die Regel, dass zwei Dinge ...

Assembling a 3D Printer

Building an advanced LEGO kit with the kids.

The rewrite

I talk about an old program I wrote, Feedie, and the process of rewriting it

Smaller Than Jax, But I Have Rail: Lessons from Tucson

As JTA's Ultimate Urban Circulator faces growing scrutiny from the Duval DOGE committee, it’s worth turning our gaze westward to a smaller, less dense city that’s managed to do what Jacksonville ha...

October 2025 Book Reading List

It must be the end of an era. For the first time in over seven years, I read no books to either my son or my daughter.

Call Off Your Dogs

This post discusses recent laws banning social media for adolescents

Call Off Your Dogs

This post discusses recent laws banning social media for adolescents

On having heart surgery at 32

Author’s note: this is a departure from topics that I usually write about. It’s not related to tech, learning, or anything I’ve written about before; it’s my personal experience going through heart...