Skellig Michael, Eventually
Left home on Saturday and drove from Dublin, almost five hours in total. Made a stop on the way for some soup and the roast of the day, which was fantastic. Saved the place on t...
Engineering, Leadership, and Life
I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.
The Wind at Your Back
When I was preparing for the college entrance exam, I wanted to study computer science because I had watched The Matrix. Yeah, I know, it’s not a big story. The other thing I le...
The Invariant Is Hiding
Emily's platform team has a cost problem. They run thousands of workloads for application teams, and too much compute sits idle most of the day. Emily has a fairly obvious propo...
Work is Just Other People
I found a pattern in myself. When work is going well, I do not talk about work. I talk about a bad joke, what someone cooked, how a Guinness pint tastes in different pubs, the t...
Where the Automation Has to Stop
I keep seeing people running multiple agents, perfect setups with multiple skills, operating a fleet of assignments. First of all, this looks like science fiction. Besides that,...