Stop Chasing the One-Shot
Five paragraphs of WHAT and HOW got me pitiful video-editing results. Showing the AI what I wanted, then letting it interview me, got me a pipeline.
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My thoughts on life, love, and everything.
The Pipeline Hands Me Back Hours
DaVinci Resolve ships with an API Claude can connect to. I asked for a pipeline instead of an edit, and got my evenings back.
Read more →Instruction Is Done to You. Learning Is Something You Do.
After years of running ZendCon, the Dutch PHP Conference, and CoderFaire, I still don't get why people skip Tutorial Day. Conference sessions are instruction. Tutorials are learning.
Read more →Lead With Instructions, Close With What You Want Remembered
A trick Joel Spolsky used on an audience in 2007 without anyone catching it, and how it settled an argument this week about the order of a message going out to a few hundred people.
Read more →Three Hours, One Stream, No Karaoke Mode
Apple's radio interface got worse and the station's app buffered every ten seconds, so I sat down with Grok and built my own player against their stream and metadata in an afternoon.
Read more →Specialization Is for Insects
Heinlein's list was not backend, frontend, and DevOps. It was diapers, sonnets, and invasions. A man of many skills, but few talents — and why the wandering converged.
Read more →Learning for Nothing
My friend learns when a problem forces him to. I learn things nobody asked me to learn. On a stable industry those look identical. The ground is moving.
Read more →What You Can Stop Carrying
AI didn't make me faster at any one task. It made it cheap to leave one. The expensive part of switching was never the switch, it was the reload — and my agents hold that now.
Read more →Training Arithmetic
An hour a month is a rounding error against a working year. Ten years of those hours is a different career. Nobody hands you the hour — you take it, or you don't get it.
Read more →Everybody Delegates. Nobody Teaches
Handing work to an agent is the easy skill and everybody picks it up in a week. Teaching it so you never make the same correction twice is the one almost nobody does.
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