Technically
Justin, Sachin, Sarah Krasnik Bedell, Sung Won Chung, Christy Bieber, Kenny Ning, Will Raphaelson, Sam SchneiderMaking practical sense of software and AI.
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How my non-engineering team at Sentry learned to ship
A few months ago, I opened Claude Code and pointed it at our marketing site. The task was unglamorous: scan the site, find pages where internal linking was weak, and open pull requests with fixes.
Within minutes, the agent was crawling the...
All about Infrastructure as Code and Terraform
At my first tech job, I attempted to change proverbial castes. To go from my lowly, near-subhuman station as an “implementation consultant” to something with status: an engineer (ooh, ahh). In particular, I went after an entry-level DevOps...
What is Next.js?
The TL;DR
Next.js is a web framework for React. It helps developers (and now agents) create web applications in React quickly and easily, as long as you follow a few rules.
- The magic we take for granted – type in a URL, see a websi...
What’s a Package Manager?
And why are AI labs like Anthropic + OpenAI buying them up?
Package managers have historically been an important, but kind of boring, aspect of software development. Recently though two large acquisitions, of Bun by Anthropic and of Astral...
AI, tractors, and the productivity paradox
The question everyone seems to be asking these days with respect to AI is: if it’s so impactful as claimed, why is it not showing up in any economic stats?
It is not the first time that such a paradox has shown up in the deployment of a ne...
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explaining software and AI for the people
Infrastructure ethnography
Growth, analytics, builder, & advisor. Growth @ Railway, and recovering data engineer. BA Johns Hopkins, MS Northwestern.
Big 4 CPA → self-taught data engineer → dev tools seller at dbt Labs, Datafold, Tobiko. Two Fivetran acquisitions later, I write about career philosophy, macro trends, game theory, and the incentives that shape how we behave.
Typing words online for 16+ years. AI enthusiast with concerns.
Data engineer at Modal
Product guy interested in slick tooling, infra, o11y, and what makes the tech world go 'round. Ex-Confluent, Capital One, Prefect, and more.
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