3d-printing
Jun 7, 2026
A few months into life as an "executive" in my day job, I have noticed something. The further up the org chart you climb, the less actual building you get to do. Meetings get longer. Decks get...
iot
Jun 5, 2026
You never know what you are going to find in a comment section. Most days, the answer is nothing useful. Every once in a while you stumble into a thread that sends you down a different path...
ai
Jun 5, 2026
Earlier today the Prime Minister stood up in Toronto and "launched AI for All" (https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/06/04/prime-minister-carney-launches-ai-all-canadas-new-national-artific...
dns
Jun 5, 2026
Lou over at louwrentius.com "recently published a thoughtful piece" (https://louwrentius.com/dns-is-for-people-not-for-it-infrastructure.html) arguing that DNS, while useful for public-facing...
microsoft
May 31, 2026
If you have ever sent me an email, you have probably noticed that my address is "[email protected]". The local part is my name. The domain is my name. Combined, they say my name twice. Most people...
ai
May 30, 2026
Google Drive sent me one of those notifications a couple of weeks ago. Storage full. Time to clean up. So I started poking through the corners of my drive looking for things to delete, and that is how...
Hard Conversations
May 23, 2026
I was visiting a friend recently who had just bought a new microwave. I went to open it to reheat a coffee, and I could not. I pulled the handle. Nothing. I pulled harder, in case the thing was just...
Hard Conversations
May 18, 2026
Thirty years ago I worked in a movie theatre. The schedule went up on a clipboard in the back office every Friday for the following week, and I learned very quickly that there were two kinds of yes...
ai
May 17, 2026
A while back I watched a mid-size company announce, with great fanfare, that AI was going to take their vendor onboarding process from twelve weeks to four.
For those not familiar with vendor...
Reflections
May 6, 2026
Apparently my brain hears what it wants to hear, and I rarely ask follow-up questions.
This blog is usually pretty serious. AI taking over the world, governments regulating the internet, the...
ai
May 3, 2026
The New York Times reported this week that Maryland became the first US state to ban AI-driven price increases at grocery stores. The law takes effect in October. It prohibits grocery stores and...
ai
May 1, 2026
«"NEVER F**KING GUESS, and that's exactly what I did. I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify. I didn't check if the volume ID was shared...