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• The Hacker Manifesto at Forty

  January 9, 2026

  Forty years ago, a frustrated teenager wrote a manifesto from jail. It still resonates — and still defines what it means to be a hacker.

• Gen AI in Software Development, Not Coding 1

  August 31, 2025

• Tacit Knowledge

  March 30, 2025

• It Will Do Whatever Fool Thing You Ask It

  March 7, 2025

• Agents are Hard

  March 2, 2025

• What Is a Developer? Part 2 - Test Boundaries

  February 23, 2025

• What Is a Developer?

  February 13, 2025

• Structured Semantics

  November 22, 2023

• The Bionic Coach

  November 19, 2023

• Systemic Oppression and Machine Learning

  November 15, 2023

• A Quick Update - Trying to Dig Myself Out

  October 21, 2023

• Leveraging Iteration and Decoupling

  July 18, 2023

• Diversion #1: Agents

  June 11, 2023

• Diversion #2: LangChain & Pydantic

  June 11, 2023

• Complex Example

  June 2, 2023

• Thinking over Typing 2.0

  May 27, 2023

• Simplistic Example

  May 27, 2023

• Making a Small Pencil Tray

  December 12, 2021

• How To Build Good Software vs. Learn a Technology

  September 23, 2017

• The Long Road

  February 20, 2017

• Why Kata?

  April 15, 2016

• Signed and Encrypted Email on OSX and iOS

  February 8, 2015

• Living with Maven2

  January 29, 2008

• Keeping A Lid On It

  January 9, 2008

• Learn Your Tools, Learn Others Too

  December 27, 2007

• Database Queries - Programmatic Criteria vs. EQL?

  November 16, 2007

• Sanitizing your input considered harmful.

  October 24, 2007

• Unit Testing: It's About Confidence

  September 7, 2007

• Software Developers

  August 28, 2007