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Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Cookie-free analytics with GoatCounter on Hugo

Fri, 08 May 2026 11:46:03 -0600

The two Hugo template gates that keep dev-server pageviews out of production analytics.

Technology Is Not the Change You Are Managing

Fri, 08 May 2026 09:50:22 -0600

AI is the technology change of the moment, and like every technology change before it, the technology is not the change being managed. This piece treats ADKAR—Prosci’s five-gate model of individual change—as a diagnostic for the people side of any technology transformation, with a data center migration as the worked example.

Capacity at Multiple Levels

Wed, 06 May 2026 22:50:05 -0600

Determining team and organization capacity for work is relatively simple in theory, and gets messy and even emotional in practice. Here’s a synthesis of a lot of practices from across a bunch of books, articles, and tech companies into a single playbook.

Up and running with Pi

Wed, 06 May 2026 22:04:50 -0600

Instructions and tips for getting the pi.dev agent harness running on a Mac with 8GB of RAM.

Tooling to build learning micro-sites

Fri, 01 May 2026 22:13:14 -0600

Train My Brain is a Claude Code plugin that builds micro-sites for personal learning. Have an esoteric learning need? Spin up a site—modules, exercises, and a glossary, served locally and ready to publish.

Systems, Not Individuals, Determine Product Quality

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:07:03 -0400

When a software product has reliability problems, slow delivery, or mounting technical debt, the instinct in tech leadership is to hire better engineers, performance-manage underperformers, or add process. These responses usually address the wrong cause. The engineers are working within a system. Fix the system.

Markdown to PDF on Mac

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:57:26 -0400

How to convert a Markdown file to a PDF with pleasant fonts and great footnotes using pandoc and TeX.

Estimation at Multiple Levels

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:21:01 -0400

Estimation is a dirty word in software and it has been for decades. But is it always bad? Are there times or situations where estimates add a degree of clarity without being dishonest? I think so, but for me, the situations are limited and ‘how much time do we have’ is often the better starting point.

Bookend agents for product quality

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:58:17 -0600

Claude kept apologizing for skipping my expectation-based testing rules…and then skipping then again 2 minutes later. This is how I replaced best-effort written instructions with two deterministic gates that I call bookends because they surround the agent with boundaries that cannot be ignored.

launchd PATH whack-a-mole

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0600

macOS Launch Agents have a minimal PATH. Here’s how to stop playing whack-a-mole every time you add a new tool.

Caddy and Tailscale on reboot

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0600

Getting Caddy and Tailscale to serve multiple local apps on reboot without thinking about it.

Pear-ish theme for Zed

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:01:05 -0600

I made a warm, earthy theme for Zed. It took exactly a month to get merged.

Flow metrics for work in GitHub

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:29:15 -0600

I built a GitHub CLI extension for engineering flow metrics. Here’s the philosophy behind it, and two stories about what went wrong.

Caddy + Tailscale for Remote File Serving

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Serving a local HTML file over your tailnet with Caddy, Tailscale, and a macOS LaunchAgent.

Building the 'Jobs For Me' Agent

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

What I learned building an AI job search agent as a Claude Work plugin in three days—and why I open-sourced it instead of selling it.

Building a language in Go

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0600

What I learned building CalcMark — a calculation language embedded in markdown — in Go. Lexers, parsers, type systems, and the tradeoffs that bit me.

Thick and Creamy Tomato Soup

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0700

Teaching agents to use CalcMark

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:20:48 -0600

I wrote an agent skill so Claude Code can use CalcMark for calculations. Then I asked Claude what was hard, and it taught me a few things about building tools for agents.

Compound engineering

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:52:58 -0700

How I used compound engineering to build a real product as a solo developer. Not “look how many commits I made” but “look at the quality and speed of issue resolution.” The data tells the story.

Accelerating Hiring at a SaaS Company

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0600

Built an AI-powered candidate screening pipeline using Claude, BambooHR, and GitHub Actions that reduced 1,000+ applicants to fewer than 300 requiring manual review. Part of a broader rethink of the client’s engineering hiring process.

Braised Beef Short Ribs

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0700

Caddy File Server

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:36:22 +0000

Using Caddy as a web server for a local file system.

Chicken Thigh Tacos

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:46:47 -0700

Clotted Cream

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:31:08 -0700

Classic English Scones

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:11:28 -0700

Carne Asada

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:25:50 -0700

Coriander Spatchcock Chicken

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:27:05 -0700

Pommes Boulangère

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:14:08 -0700

Crepes by Nastya

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:07:08 -0700

French Peas

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:11:52 -0700

Pad Kra Pao

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:53:04 -0700

Create a Hugo Site from Scratch

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:29:21 -0700

I like Hugo for static web sites but I always forget how to start from from scratch without a template. This is my short guide with some handy tips and reminders.

Kitchen Units & Conversions

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

httpie for JSON data

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:48:56 -0700

Using a slightly nicer curl

Keep Github Actions Simple

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:43:04 -0700

A reminder to keep Github Actions simple and as free of logic as possible.

MCP and NumPy

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:01:33 -0700

I spun up a couple of projects to explore two separate topics: how to implement a basic MCP server; how to use NumPy for numerical computations.

Shrinking output from Go WebAssembly

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:51:27 -0700

Cross-compiling Go code to WebAssembly (WASM) is really powerful. It also produces massive files to download. So how can we shrink this down?

Git worktrees for local development

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:38:06 -0700

Using git worktrees for the first time in local development requires some new muscle memory.

Audaciously deciding to write a new language

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:41:58 -0700

I really wanted a tiny little version of Jupyter notebooks but for personal calculations that can also have Markdown in them. So I started chatting with my buddy, Claude, who gave me an inflated sense of my capabilities.

uv and Jupyter Best Friends

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 11:13:54 -0700

Literally before I forget! How to make uv and Jupyter play nicely together. This assumes you’ve already got a new uv project (maybe with uv init --bare):

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uv add --dev ipykernel
# Option One
uv run ipython kernel install --user --env VIRTUAL_ENV $(pwd)/.venv --name=sensor-exp
# Option Two
uv run --with jupyter jupyter lab

In which Claude Makes a Map

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:50:53 -0700

I decided to vibe code, truly putting Anthropic’s Claude CLI in the driver’s seat. It was instructive!

Week 5: Image and Video Generation

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:03:11 -0600

Overview of generative approaches to image and video generation. Includes text-to-image and text-to-video tasks.

JS Modules and Refactoring Hugo Shortcodes

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:11:43 -0600

In which I finally read some docs on what a JavaScript module is and how it made my Hugo shortcodes self contained.

Week 4: Thinking and Reasoning Models

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:10:43 -0600

Complex prompts are better handled with multi-step logical answers. Reasoning models are still an LLM, but we add reasoning before the response is provided.

Moving Ollama Models to a Different Disk

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:43:57 -0600

I’m running Ollama on a Macbook so shifting the default location that Ollama downloads massive models to is a necessity. It’s just one environment setting away.

Week 3: Agents

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:51:07 -0600

Week 3 is all about agents. Workflows, tools, multi-step agents, and the protocols and frameworks involved.

D2 Diagram Rendering in Hugo

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:53:07 -0600

How I integrated D2 diagram rendering into my Hugo blog with a custom Go script

Tailscale Exit Node on Mac Mini

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:56:06 -0600

I want to set up an exit node on my Mac Mini using Tailscale. That way I can watch movies from anywhere and print stuff without being at home.

RAFT for RAG

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:32:42 -0600

RAFT (Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning) confused me when I first heard about it in a training class. It’s a technique that combines both offline fine-tuning and runtime retrieval to improve the performance of language models. But I wasn’t sure whether the core LLM should be fine-tuned or the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) vector store, or both. So I dug in.

Interpret LLM Model Size

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:26:35 -0600

How to interpret the numbers used to describe LLMs.

Week 2: Adapting LLMs

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:01:07 -0600

Part two of the AI Engineering Course, focusing on adapting existing LLMs with post training work. It covers Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Fine Tuning.

uv for LLM Experiments

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:46:24 -0600

Using uv instead of Anaconda environment.yml to set up a virtual environment for LLM experiments.

Week 1: LLM Foundations

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:34:50 -0600

Resources from Week 1 of the AI Engineering Course

Previewing Markdown Files with mdserve

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:03:35 -0400

Dependency free markdown server

Redefining Technical Program Management at GitHub

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:00:00 -0600

Transformed GitHub’s ~35-person TPM organization from project coordination into technically grounded program leadership. Narrowed the portfolio from 20+ programs to 5 high-impact ones aligned to company-level goals, with VP+ agreement across Engineering and Product.

TPM Journey at Github

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:27:55 +0000

Slides and recording of my presentation about how technical program management (TPM) came about at GitHub. All in context of Tuckman’s model of group development.

Slice by Slice

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:11:51 -0600

How two German automotive engineers got inside my head. Or: how I learned to stop stressing out and to start solving problems.

Altitude, Brevity, Contrast, and Directness

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 11:11:51 -0600

How to write with a busy reader in mind by answering some questions. What altitude are they at? How can you be succinct? Are you highlighting the important bits? Are you being as direct as you can be?

Rapid Response: The Flex Team

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:11:21 -0600

Creating a rapid response team to handle urgent projects, then scaling up to sustainable programs where needed.

Shipping GHES on Time, Every Time

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:00:00 -0600

Turning late GitHub Enterprise Server releases into a predictable cadence by making implicit expectations explicit for every feature team.

Whitelisting Pi-hole

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:51:29 -0700

Working with Pi-hole and a bit of sed.

Pay It Forward

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:32:46 -0700

I had a great chat with a college student about a career in tech. I thought I’d share some of the advice I gave them. It’s not going to change the world, but it might help someone.

Tracking program investments in SQLite

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:19:47 -0700

Using SQLite to work with hierarchical data and learning about CTEs and data loading along the way.

GitHub CLI

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 18:28:32 -0700

Using the GitHub CLI to make authenticated and authorized download from a private repo.

Task for automation

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 17:08:20 -0700

Using task as a Make alternative for your automation tasks and wonderment.

OSS donations, fonts

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:10:33 -0700

Starting some micro-donations to open source developers. And a font.

SQLite and Go App

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:51:08 -0700

Using Go and SQLite to munge YAML data for fun and profit…or for free.

SQLite schema

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 09:26:35 -0700

Learning a few bits about SQLite that are worth noting.

VSCode for Markdown

Sun, 06 Feb 2022 07:56:12 -0700

Writing Markdown using VS Code

Giving Actionable Feedback

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:49:28 -0700

Feedback is a gift. But how do you provide feedback to someone while increasing the chance that the person can hear and maybe even act on what you’re sharing with them?

Python, SQL, and data eng

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:20:28 -0500

Data engineering audiocast, plus Python photos

.env file, tmux, and direnv

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:12:27 -0600

Using direnv to automatically handle environment variables.

Git large file storage

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 07:40:13 -0600

Using GitLFS for the first time.

Learning JSON Schema

Sun, 22 Aug 2021 12:42:07 -0600

JSON Schema is an old concept wrapped in a relatively new format. I learned a few things as I was defining a data model using JSON Schema.

2021-08-18

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:56:55 -0600

Using Google Sheets for event planning

JS Dates are Weird

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:58:16 -0600

In which type coercion and JavaScript magic bite me in the…date math.

Terraforming 101

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:14:21 -0700

In which I finally get to grips with infrastructure as code on a real project while trying to set up identity aware proxy to protect a private app from prying eyes.

Operating Principles a.k.a. How We Work

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:46:31 -0700

This is a lightly obfuscated version of something I wrote for the technical team at Woolpert Cloud Solutions. It reflects the values I promote for the team and my ethos around enabling people to make their own decisions based on core values rather than an endless list of rules.

Building a Cloud Professional Services Practice

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:00:00 -0600

Building a cloud consulting practice from zero at Woolpert: founding three technical functions, hiring 12 engineers, and proving the model with a $450K Google engagement.

awk-ing

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:59:30 -0700

Some awk for text file munging

OSM and Python

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:56:57 -0600

Using Python to work with addresses and Open Street Map networks.

Wardley Maps

Mon, 31 May 2021 12:06:55 -0600

Simon Wardley figured out how to make maps that support strategy by balancing user-facing visibility and technical evolution from innovation to commodity.

2021-05-29

Sat, 29 May 2021 10:27:57 -0600

Trying svelte-kit and Tailwind CSS

A Bit of Fastapi for Auth

Tue, 18 May 2021 13:54:13 -0600

Learning more about JWT as a way to encode claims by getting hands-on with FastAPI, a relative newcomer to the Python family of web frameworks.

2021-05-15

Sat, 15 May 2021 11:15:47 -0600

ICU for Python head-scratcher solved

Tinkering With Tax Data

Tue, 11 May 2021 12:45:06 -0600

Using some open source tools to learn about tax data in Denver.

2021-05-05

Wed, 05 May 2021 17:59:13 -0600

Getting Python running on fresh Linux

Main not Master, and Python formatting

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:46:36 -0600

Default git branch name and Python formatting

Big O for Imposters

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:09:01 -0600

A short and probably obvious statement for people who studied computer science. But for me is not obvious and took a short bit of reading on Big(O).

Leadership memo and role definitions

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 10:29:18 -0600

PM and Eng leadership

Squishing PNGs

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 10:13:32 -0600

PNG squishing and static sites on GCS

Pangeo for geospatial compute

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:28:49 -0600

Learning about Pangeo and friends

Transforming the Team on Your Practical Cloud Journey

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:08:52 -0600

Reposting a blog I wrote for Woolpert about digital transformation and the necessary culture, learning, and mindset for a successful and practical cloud journey.

TIL Cloud migration and terraform

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:34:59 -0600

From GCP to Terraform

Multiple ssh keypairs and how to use them

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:51:48 -0700

Finally learning more about ssh keypairs and how to manage them using ssh-agent.

Visidata as a multi-purpose tool for data exploration and analysis

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:54:28 -0700

VisiData #

https://www.visidata.org/ is a Swiss Army Knife for viewing, querying, filtering, summarizing, and converting a very wide array of data types. It comes with a bunch of standard data format support like CSV. Just looking at the file types makes me happy, because it includes geospatial too.

Getting started with Python is easy.

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pip3 install visidata
pip3 install pyshp # geospatial support
asdf reshim python

The asdf... part is needed because I’m using asdf these days.

asdf for Runtime Management

Sun, 07 Mar 2021 12:37:59 -0700

Using asdf as an alternative to homebrew for managing language runtimes like Python and Ruby. It provides a holistic solution to the same problem that pyenv and nvm and rvm solve for specific languages and runtimes.

OSS Licenses and Richard Feynman

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:07:02 -0700

Picking a license. Was trying to remember why we selected the Mozilla Public License (MPL) for Woolpert’s open source work. Rediscovered https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mpl-2.0/ which helps you make the right choice depending on your decision drivers.
Use boring technology. Writing a client proposal and remembered the phrase ‘boring technology’. Searched it and discovered that I’d read about it in the past: boringtechnology.club. Key idea: innovation tokens.

“Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while. You might get a few more after you achieve a certain level of stability and maturity, but the general tendency is to overestimate the contents of your wallet. Clearly this model is approximate, but I think it helps.

How to Make a Hugo Blog from Scratch

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 21:49:35 -0700

Make a Hugo blog from scratch

I broke my blog structure and theming a while back and took some time to figure it out. But I found this tutorial which breaks it down into very easy, bite-sized steps. Now my blog is working, and I understand how. Woohoo!

Coding Exercise in Go

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 12:02:31 -0700

Answering my own coding exercise using Go and sharing a couple of things I learned along the way about JSON and concurrency.

A Practical Cloud Journey

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:35:17 -0700

Re-posting the kickoff to Woolpert’s 2021 Practical Cloud Journey series. It’s all about customer value, not getting ahead of yourself (or your competence), and the importance of context.

Open Source (Geospatial) Data Exploration

Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:15:45 -0700

Modern for exploration and analysis #

‘The modern geospatial stack’ isn’t really a helpful thing to say when trying to describe a whole field. But it mostly means ’not a typical commercial package’. At least that’s my take. It means thinking about geospatial analysis as more like a slightly specialized case of typical data science, and that means a assembling a toolkit from the array of open source and commercial tools out there.

GCP Billing API Scripting

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:29:23 -0700

Getting an invoice out the door #

One of the things we do at Woolpert is service Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers. Part of that is sending them a monthly bill for their cloud spend. And part of that means assembling various bits of data from the GCP billing backend into a sensible report that customers can consume either by reading it, or by ingesting the data into their own systems.

Tips

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 07:45:59 -0700

Pictures #

The author as a younger man

Twitter #

I did a thing and it got posted.

If you think tacos are the crunchy shells with ground beef in them, please expand your horizons. These al pastor tacos were as hot as lava and divine. pic.twitter.com/Mad4eqpYmZ
— Dylan Thomas (BitsByMe@hachyderm.io) (@dvhthomas) August 12, 2021

Link to a post #

By reference:

About Me

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:37:28 -0700

Hi, I’m Dylan Thomas 👋 ¹. I’m a geographer by training, a technologist and program leader by profession, and a (slow) cyclist by nature. I enjoy working on my open source projects CalcMark, GitHub Velocity, and Recipes4.me.

People first and then the machines #

Skip to my resume (PDF) if you just need a rundown of my career, or check out examples of my work.

Dominic 'Dylan' Thomas

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:37:28 -0700

I build the teams and environments that make audacious business goals possible—PMOs, TPM teams, partner engineering teams, and professional services practices. I walk into ambiguity, bring the right amount of structure, and stay focused on impact.

Skills #

Core: Operations, Technical Program Management, Agile Service Delivery, Technical Partnerships, Balanced Leadership, Remote Leadership, Growing Teams, Organizational Development
Technical: Geospatial, AI Engineering, and get-it-done levels of Python, Go, Google Cloud, some infrastructure, and SQL.

Work Experience #

AlwaysMap — Consulting and Open Source #

June 2025 to Present

Recommendations

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:37:28 -0700

Here are books that I enjoyed and gained valuable knowledge from.

Release It! #

This was a major influence on my understanding of resilient systems. The first (working!) multi-threaded code I ever wrote was to implement a circuit breaker in C#. I was kind of in awe that I could make things…not break! A lot of the examples use a tech stack that I’m not deeply familiar with (J2EE) but the lessons are still spot on.

Welcome Back

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:11:30 -0700

After a long pause #

According to my records…let me see now…it’s been six years since I last posted anything to any blog, let alone this one.

Since then I’ve done a fair amount in life, mostly while working at Google on the Android Automotive team as the head of their partner engineering team. Learned a few things there.

But now I’m out of the San Francisco Bay Area and back in the middle-ish of the United States, and doing other tech stuff of the cloud-y variety.

Reposting Woolpert Cloud strategy blog

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:01:00 -0700

Reposting a blog I wrote for Woolpert on how to proceed with a cloud strategy. I focus mostly on the Decide phase, since that’s most interesting to me personally, and I think it’s also the part where a lack of recognition of an appropriate mindset gets people in a pickle.

GeoAccelerator for Rapid Experimentation

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:11:21 -0600

Introducing experimentation into the technical sales process to: produce evidence for customers; close deals; publish assets for future sales.

Core Skills ≥ Technical Skills

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:49:24 -0700

Re-posting a popular article of mine from LinkedIn, I muse over the relative benefits of technical skills over core skills in hiring.

Building the Android Auto Partner Engineering Team

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:00:00 -0600

Grew from individual contributor to global team lead for Android Auto partner engineering, shipping 75+ partner integrations across 130+ head unit variants in 24 months. Designed a third-party certification program that removed the team as the bottleneck and let Android Auto scale to hundreds of car models.

UML in a nutshell

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:13:48 -0600

I don’t always reach for UML but when I do I always draw the wrong little diamond for aggregation vs. composition so maybe this will help me to use the right pen for the job next time!

Running SQL scripts in C#

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:01:44 -0600

How to run a bunch of SQL scripts inside a C# program.

Capturing edit events in ArcMap

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:11:30 -0700

Issue #

You are trying to capture the Save Edits and Stop Editing toolbar actions in ArcMap through code so that different actions can be performed for each event. Unfortunately the underlying events associated with the actions (saving and stopping editing) fire for both actions so figuring out if the user Saved or Stopped Editing is a chore.

Resolution #

Set up your code to listen for the events:

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Cookie-free analytics with GoatCounter on Hugo

Technology Is Not the Change You Are Managing

Capacity at Multiple Levels

Up and running with Pi

Tooling to build learning micro-sites

Systems, Not Individuals, Determine Product Quality

Markdown to PDF on Mac

Estimation at Multiple Levels

Bookend agents for product quality

launchd PATH whack-a-mole

Caddy and Tailscale on reboot

Pear-ish theme for Zed

Flow metrics for work in GitHub

Caddy + Tailscale for Remote File Serving

Building the 'Jobs For Me' Agent

Building a language in Go

Thick and Creamy Tomato Soup

Teaching agents to use CalcMark

Compound engineering

Accelerating Hiring at a SaaS Company

Braised Beef Short Ribs

Caddy File Server

Chicken Thigh Tacos

Clotted Cream

Classic English Scones

Carne Asada

Coriander Spatchcock Chicken

Pommes Boulangère

Crepes by Nastya

French Peas

Pad Kra Pao

Create a Hugo Site from Scratch

Kitchen Units & Conversions

httpie for JSON data

Keep Github Actions Simple

MCP and NumPy

Shrinking output from Go WebAssembly

Git worktrees for local development

Audaciously deciding to write a new language

uv and Jupyter Best Friends

In which Claude Makes a Map

Week 5: Image and Video Generation

JS Modules and Refactoring Hugo Shortcodes

Week 4: Thinking and Reasoning Models

Moving Ollama Models to a Different Disk

Week 3: Agents

D2 Diagram Rendering in Hugo

Tailscale Exit Node on Mac Mini

RAFT for RAG

Interpret LLM Model Size

Week 2: Adapting LLMs

uv for LLM Experiments

Week 1: LLM Foundations

Previewing Markdown Files with mdserve

Redefining Technical Program Management at GitHub

TPM Journey at Github

Slice by Slice

Altitude, Brevity, Contrast, and Directness

Rapid Response: The Flex Team

Shipping GHES on Time, Every Time

Whitelisting Pi-hole

Pay It Forward

Tracking program investments in SQLite

GitHub CLI

Task for automation

OSS donations, fonts

SQLite and Go App

SQLite schema

VSCode for Markdown

Giving Actionable Feedback

Python, SQL, and data eng

.env file, tmux, and direnv

Git large file storage

Learning JSON Schema

2021-08-18

JS Dates are Weird

Terraforming 101