The Last Generation of Programmers – the first generation of builders

I spent twenty years acquiring a skill set that took a lifetime to build and that no one will ever need to compile again. How I almost missed it I don’t have the stereotypical programmer’s origin story. No disassembling computers at age seven, no BASIC programs typed into the family TV. My path to programming Read More …

Postpartum creative flourishing – an example from the first month with baby 4

A newborn is no vacation, but it can be a sab-baby-cal under the right conditions I’m just past one month of being postpartum with my fourth baby. I  want to share my story of creative flourishing in the postpartum period, because there are a variety of narratives to the contrary and discovering this flourishing has Read More …

Hello Claw – Setting up a local agentic assistant to level up my learning, projects, and logistics

I’ve been experimenting with AI tools for awhile – Claude Code (and more claude code), ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf. Especially with the fourth baby here, I have a lot of time where I’m up-at-all hours with a hand free to use my phone while I feed a snoozy baby. I’m a huge home automation fan Read More …