AI Agents Are Great Augmentation Tools

May 18, 2026

I’ve drank the kool-aid. I’ve been using AI to assist in software development for somewhere between four to eight weeks. I was super against it at first. Now...

My Progress in Using AI in Software Development

February 16, 2026

I always knew there could be a point where something in the software development industry would change so drastically, that I would either be in danger of be...

Using ChatGPT to Search Git History for a String

January 28, 2026

I’m not really a typical software developer when it comes to AI agents and writing software with them. I don’t really subscribe to the exercise where you jus...

Hiring Developers in the AI Age

August 26, 2025

In the past, hiring developers has had some terrible practices. A few that come to mind are whiteboard tests, complex take home exercises, and more recently,...

ChatGPT for Regular Expressions

August 26, 2025

I have this project that I’ve been chipping away at for years. I forget about it for long periods of time, and then decide to see where I left off. It’s a m...

Quiet MongoDB Logs

January 30, 2025

I find myself in a Rails project again. And this particular Rails project uses MongoDB. The logging from MongoDB is excessive, maybe it’s Mongoid, I don’t kn...

Some Sort of 2021 Review

December 24, 2021

As 2021 starts to come to a close, and I take the week of Christmas off, I have plenty of time to reflect. All things considered, 2021 was a good year. I cel...

Blockquotes in Markdown and Elixir

February 26, 2021

This is the fifth post in a series about building an Elixir library. You can see the other posts here: Creating an Elixir Library Parsing Paragraphs in...

Italics, Markdown, and Elixir

January 24, 2021

This is the fourth post in a what is a series about building an Elixir library. You can see the other posts here: Creating an Elixir Library Parsing Pa...

Parsing Hyperlinks in Markdown

January 04, 2021

This is the third post in a what is a series about building an Elixir library. You can see the other posts here: Creating an Elixir Library. Parsing Pa...