Radical Insider
A veteran developer's honest take on building software with AI, the tech industry's BS, and the things that actually matter - from the field and the keyboard.
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The Suit Doesn't Make You Tony Stark
iron man in sketch
I was building a substitution feature into BenchBoard the other night. Simple idea on paper: a coach drags a kid into a “sub” slot, and the app tracks who’s covering for whom. The kind of thing that sounds like an aftern...
The YouTubers Selling You AI Coding Have a Problem
There’s a particular kind of YouTube video that’s been showing up in my feed for the past year, and I’m guessing you’ve seen it too.
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Mark Zuckerberg Thinks He Can Watch His Smart People, Then Replace Them. He's Wrong.
Data is people. That's the pitch, and also the problem.
On April 30, in a Meta all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg explained why the company had quietly installed software on employees’ machines that captures their mouse movements, clicks, and keys...
The AI Wrote the Code. I Still Had To Teach It Baseball.
This is Part 3 of a five-part series about building BenchBoard, a team management and live scorekeeping app for youth baseball and softball, with the help of AI tools. Part 1 covers the big-picture lessons of building with AI. Part 2 is the...
Dear Xbox Fans: Satya Nadella Just Doesn't Give a Damn About Games
The current gaming scene - in sketch
On February 20, 2026, in the middle of Xbox’s 25th anniversary year, a year that was supposed to signal renewal, Microsoft announced that Phil Spencer was retiring after 38 years at the company. In the...
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Founder of BenchBoard. Engineer. Dad. Youth Coach. Radical Insider. Just writing things that range from random articles to hopefully something useful to you.
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