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Latest — 24 Oct 2025

The Human and the Technical

I wrote a small thing on LinkedIn yesterday about the differences in media and tech companies, based on my experience of working for various large companies. I wrote: Tech companies tend to focus on process, data, and engineering practice. Media companies focus on the humans driving the technology. Great software

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AI Tools and the Craft of Coding

I found this post The Programmer Identity Crisis on Mastodon via a boost by David Beazley of Andrii Mishkovskyi’s post. I agree with Andrii, this really is a beautifully written piece, but I do, however, think I have something to add. So let me try. Here’s the crux

Everything is either a tech company or a media company, or now, a bank

I've been say something to the effect of this for awhile now – every business is ultimately either a tech business or a media business, and the really great ones have figured out how to be both. Let me make this concrete with an example. My oldest daughter is

Wrestling with the big questions of tech and content distribution

I haven't gotten to the reveal of the Hidden Reason Digital Comics Never Took Off in the latest episode of the Comic Industry Insiders podcast, but I'm already intrigued. I'm only 15-20 minutes into an hour and half plus episode, and they're

Testing (and craft) FTW!

I feel this so much from Ned Batchelder's post Testing is better than DSA: In a job search, testing experience will stand out more than DSA depth. It shows you’ve thought about what it takes to write high-quality software instead of just academic exercises. I frequently ask

Dragon Con 2025

That's right nerds, it's our Christmas time. Dragon Con 2025 is upon us.

20 years of Django and me

I saw that it's Django's 20 year birthday today (via Simon Willison). Wow, that's hard to believe, but also, I know it all too well. My own career parallels Django's history. Back in 2005, I was about a year into my first

Superman Movie Week Comes to Gotham

Superman movie promos have been everywhere this week, apparently even in Gotham.

On AI and Creativity

The kind of art I like is based in technology. Film is told through a camera lens. Music is made via recording equipment. Even when drawn on paper, which is increasingly rare, comics are the product of digital lettering and coloring techniques. Never mind that the whole of the publishing

Jonathan Hickman Makes Watches

I've been catching up on older episodes of Off Panel with David Harper, and today, I came across this amazing quote from Jonathan Hickman when describing his entry into the comics industry and developing his own writing style: It was very obvious that there was a giant hole