13 articles

  1. The AI Slot Machine is Draining My Creativity

    How often do you find yourself doing this? Start with a vague app idea, ask AI to start it, and suddenly you have a bunch of code scaffolded out.

  2. If xkcd 303 Was Written Today

    I’ve had this dumb little remix stuck in my head for a while and finally got around to making it.

  3. Stuff I Use (From 2025)

    This is going to be an extended series of articles to showcase the tools, workflows, and utilities that I use every day to be productive and get things done.

  4. To More Writing in 2026

    I started last year with plans of writing more often. For a multitude of reasons, that clearly didn’t happen.

  5. AI Is Democratizing Cognitive Thought

    I think we’re in an era where AI (specifically LLMs) is democratizing cognitive capabilities.

  6. AI & Programming Jobs

    I listened to Under the Radar #16: Job Security a few weeks ago and wanted to repost it because Marco & David covered all the points about AI and the uncertainty we’re facing today in our industry.

  7. YABI: Yet Another Blog Iteration

    read.cv recently announced they were shutting down, which is what has powered the front page of daviesgeek.com for a few years now.

  8. LVTS: Aligning Vision & Value in Engineering

    This was my talk from my local meetup group slightly edited for blogging purposes.

  9. The Future of Meshtastic and Community Involvement

    First of all, I want to make it very clear what this is not. This is not a post intended to criticize the developers or past decisions.

  10. Building a solar powered Meshtastic Node

    Overview Meshtastic is “an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices.

  11. myQ's horrible take on open access to their devices

    Over the last few weeks, myQ has been making changes to break Home Assistant and Scrypted’s support of their devices.

  12. Names should not be cute

    A rebuttal to “Names should be cute, not descriptive” (HN link) I couldn’t disagree more for service and infrastructure names.