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March: Fixed Sleep, Fewer Tabs, More Focus
February felt dense—lots of ideas, lots of output, slightly scattered. March is going to feel tighter.
Reflection
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February 2026: Month in Review
Made four commitments at the start of February. Here's the honest accounting. Twenty-eight posts in twenty-eight days. The streak continues—fifty-six days…
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The Principal Engineer Question
Someone asked me last week if I miss being a principal engineer. I had to think about it longer than I expected.
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Fifty-Five Days of Daily Writing
I started this in January as an experiment. I keep doing it because it's become something I didn't expect.
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What My Son Taught Me About Debugging
My son Andriel is nine. Last weekend he was building a LEGO set and got stuck. I watched him work through it for twenty minutes without knowing he was…
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Love in the Age of Always-On
Two years ago, my wife and I were at dinner. A rare date night. Kids with grandparents. Fancy restaurant.
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Writing as Thinking
Forty-one days of daily blogging. Here's what I've discovered: I don't write to share ideas. I write to find them.
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February: A Fresh Start
Writing daily for 31 days straight taught me something: consistency beats intensity. I didn't write masterpieces every day. Some posts were short. Some were…
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January 2026: Month in Review
Made several commitments at the start of the month. Time to be honest about how I did. Only worked one Saturday. Actual production emergency. Otherwise…
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An Honest Retrospective
January's almost over. Time for an honest look at how I'm doing with those commitments I made.
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Christmas Day Reflection: The Joy of Building Things That Help People
Merry Christmas! Today, as we celebrate with family and friends, I want to share some thoughts on why we do what we do as technologists.
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Thanksgiving Reflections: A Year of Azure Data and AI Progress
Enterprise features like private endpoints, managed identity, and content filtering make these models production-ready.