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The Narrative Fallacy

Note: This is an edited re-post of something I wrote in 2019 on a now-defunct blog, apparently a month before I started my first job in tech. I need to reference it in a future post. As a result, i...

The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers (Review)

The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers: From Fast Machines to Fast Codes is a technical and business history of the roughly three-decades when Seymour Cray dominated the development of a class of c...

Whatever happened to sandboxfs?

Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my atte...

Teaching National Security Policy with AI

The videos embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com International Policy students will be spending their careers in an AI-enabled world. We wanted our students to be prepared for it....

2025W23

Thrive in obscurity — Creative success often starts in obscurity, with many creators spending years sharing their work with few or no viewers. To stay motivated, focus on creating what you love ins...

Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the d...

Cisco Live 2025

Although Cisco Live suffers from zeitgeist mania, with this year being AI, there are still a lot of value from sessions and the tribal excitement of being with your industry peers. Either by outrig...

Origami jumping frog

This is a simple origami frog that jumps when you press on it. I was taught to make it by my parents when I was really young, so it holds a very dear place in my heart. There are other versions on ...

DevOps Newsletters

Essential weekly reads covering AWS, SRE, programming, and DevOps trends for professional development.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

8 Dos and Don'ts for the tech interview

I have been on the recruiting side a fair number of times and I hope to cover some common pitfalls and advice to help you land a nice job! Before we start I want to say this is advice from my own j...

Special Edition — Take Two

Special Edition — Take Two TL;DR:If I had another chance, I would have started this blog earlier. This blog post has approximately 307 words and may take 2 minutes to read. This post was submitted ...

Packaging Session

Vibe Coding

AI has already transformed the landscape of software engineering. Not just coding, and that distinction matters. While it's easy to get models to write code, software engineering is a different cha...

【Tips】Faster Swift 6 Builds: Enabling SwiftSyntax Prebuilts

Is compiling Swift Macros slowing you down? Learn how to enable SwiftSyntax Prebuilts in Swift 6.1+ to significantly slash Xcode build times.

Introducing facet: Reflection for Rust

I have long been at war against Rust compile times. Part of the solution for me was to buy my way into Apple Silicon dreamland, where builds are, like… faster. I remember every time I SSH into an x...

FESCO Q&A

Improving Product Discovery of Tabletop RPG Maps (Preliminary Investigation)

As catalogs for digital marketplaces grow in size, customers have greater difficulty in finding products that meet their needs. Marketplace owners might improve product discovery by adding new cate...

HTTP QUERY and Go

We need another HTTP verb. I'll explain why.

Rails’ Connection Pool

In which I learn to read YAML syntax.

Introducing number and currency formaters (and more) for KMP in pale-blue-kmp-core

Native-backed currency and number formatters, plus a type-safe KmmResult wrapper that works seamlessly across iOS and Android. These additions fill long-standing gaps in the Kotlin Multiplatform to...