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How I set up my 2026 MacBook Pro, along with the software I installed and the method I used for each (Mac App Store, Homebrew, or direct download).

I gave a talk on neurodiversity at Decoupled Days 2026. This is the companion article that I wrote for it. If you’re just looking for the slides, click here.

The one where I back to good software.

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of...

On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.

On AI and an all-encompassing role in modern web development.

Yes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t...

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...

Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.

You can make your software developer life suck a bit less by using task runners to run common coding tasks consistently across multiple repositories

The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it...

Writers that write badly instead of plan extremely well are… better writers?

Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...

Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.

Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.

Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...

In this essay, Carson Gross thinks about the best way for the university to prepare students in the AI era.

Eight months ago I was producing roughly 90% human written code and 10% AI written code. This has switched surprisingly rapidly and now my code is probably 90%...

From guarding our professional expertise to rethinking processes, some advice for using LLMs effectively and responsibly.

Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software...

What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong

The cloud made software convenient, then quietly took your speed and your privacy with it. Here's why the best apps are moving back onto your machine.