rude mechanicals

Deciding not to do HOAs

(Email sent to the VCs we pitched for Dials.)

Quick reminder, Aishanou and I were pitching Dials — the property management platform, focused on self-managed HOAs as our first customer.

“GTM in this market will be difficult, and slow”.

Working from home — in Homewood

I ran a Chinese class for a couple years. The six of us met every…

99.9% correct

I’m a technology pessimist.

It’s always broken. There are always more bugs to fix. There will be outages. What they call “innovation”, I call, “a new way to fail”.

You’d be this way too, after a decade of MongoDB balancer problems, half-baked card…

The economics of developer pay

Spoiler alert: there is virtually no difference in the mechanics of work done between $100 an hour, $200 an hour, and $30k a week — all of the leveling up there is in sophistication on who you go after, what engagements you propose and deliver, and how you package things for…

The cup and saucer model of software development

Fashion’s never finished

False aggregates

The BLS reports the median annual wage for architects was $76,930 in 2016.

Look at that sentence. Doesn’t it sound impressive? Those numbers. Can’t you imagine someone on CNN saying it, dressed in a fancy suit? They’d put one of those little gray boxes on the bottom of the…

Tech debt in the cloud

“We have too much tech debt.”

“That code is full of tech debt”.

We talk about “technical debt” — tech debt — as a single, unitary thing.