The US Election and Social Media's Reckoning
The 2020 US election exposed the fundamental tension between platform scale and platform responsibility, and there are no easy answers
- personal
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Ideas tested in public.
Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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Tesla Model Y: My Third Tesla
Taking delivery of a Model Y and reflecting on how Tesla went from a curiosity to the default choice for anyone paying attention to the automotive industry
- nostalgia
- personal
The World Went Remote Overnight
COVID-19 just forced the largest remote work experiment in human history, and cloud infrastructure is the only reason it is working at all
- cloud
- personal
A Virus in Wuhan: How Technology Responds
Reports of a novel coronavirus are emerging from China, and the tech response is already revealing how the world handles crises differently in 2020
- personal
The 2010s: A Decade of Cloud, Mobile, and Early AI
Reflecting on a decade that transformed technology and my career, from Linux administration to cloud infrastructure leadership
- personal
- career
Tesla Model S: The Second Tesla Joins the Fleet
Adding a Model S to the garage alongside the Model 3 and what it means to go fully electric
- nostalgia
- personal
The First Photo of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole in M87, and the technology behind it is as remarkable as the science
- personal
Three Flagship Phones: Samsung, Apple, Pixel
Living with all three flagship ecosystems simultaneously and what each one gets right
- nostalgia
- personal
GitHub Is Now Microsoft's
Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub on October 26 and the open source world is processing what this means
- personal
I Bought My First Tesla Model 3
Taking delivery of a Tesla Model 3 and experiencing what it means when your car is a software platform
- nostalgia
- personal
SpaceX Falcon Heavy: The Most Inspiring Launch I Have Ever Watched
SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy two days ago and I cannot stop thinking about what it means for engineering
- personal
Day One at a Major Entertainment Company
Starting a new chapter as a cloud architect at one of the world's largest entertainment enterprises
- career
- personal
Why I Bought a BMW 540i
On falling in love with a twenty-year-old German sedan and making my first big purchase in America
- nostalgia
- personal
Pokemon Go and the Power of AR
Pokemon Go launched five days ago and the entire world seems to be outside catching virtual creatures
- personal
Leaving Texas A&M, Entering Industry
After years of research and coursework, I am closing the grad school chapter and stepping into the industry
- career
- personal
Gravitational Waves Detected
LIGO just confirmed gravitational waves exist, and a hundred years of Einsteinian prediction suddenly became observable reality
- personal
Apple Watch Launches Wearables into the Mainstream
The Apple Watch arrived and with it a new computing form factor that raises fascinating questions about human-computer interaction
- personal
First Week at Texas A&M Research Lab
Starting my MS in Computer Science, navigating a new country, and stepping into research assistant life
- career
- personal
Accepted to Texas A&M: America, Here I Come
I got my acceptance letter for MS in Computer Science and my life is about to change completely
- career
- personal
Moto Razr: My Uncle Brought From America
The Motorola Razr and the tradition of uncles bringing impossible gadgets from America
- nostalgia
- personal
From No Phone to Nokia 6230
Growing up in an era without mobile phones and the day my uncle brought home a Nokia 6230 with a camera
- nostalgia
- personal
NSA PRISM: The Internet's Innocence Dies
Edward Snowden just revealed that the US government has been surveilling internet communications on a massive scale
- personal
2012: The Year the Cloud Became Real
A year-end reflection on how 2012 marked the turning point when cloud computing stopped being experimental and became the default
- cloud
- personal
Raspberry Pi and the Maker Movement
The Raspberry Pi Model B shipped earlier this year and it reignited something I forgot I had: the joy of tinkering
- personal