Articles

What I've Been Up To at Cloudflare

I joined Cloudflare in April 2024 as a Systems Engineer. It’s been almost two years now, and I thought I’d write down what I’ve been working on – mostly so I can look back on it later.

Why I Stopped Writing Code (And Why You Should Too)

Last Tuesday, at 2:47 AM, tears streaming down my face, I had a realization that fundamentally altered my understanding of what it means to be a software engineer in 2026.

The Energy of Georges Bataille

  Continuity: the totality of being What is life?

Brown Bear, Brown Bear: A critical analysis

Fractal, Recursion, Circle

The Gamestop Paradox

Learning to Unlearn

The Red House on Mississippi

Towards an Objective Reality

Back the Blue

Superman vs. Superego

Twitter makes it hard to think

An essay on why Twitter is an intellectually exhausting news source.

Should history be forgotten?

We are tearing down statues of people we now find immoral. We can stop writing books and making movies about these people, too. We can even stop teaching children about them in schools. We can use our will to create...

Better mailing address management

People move a lot.

Diplomacy: is it a good idea to stab?

Should you try to solo or share the win?

Lessons from a large ETL

Moving 500GB over HTTP

The importance of good estimations

Conveying risk, not just dates

Using JIRA with microservices

Planning work across teams

Travel checklist

After six months backpacking, this is what I found useful to have in my pack.

RubyConf 2014

Notes from San Diego

South America

Travel post-mortem