2025
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Gratitude
Dec 3
Another leader once encouraged managers to express gratitude to their teams through hand-written thank you notes. This has evolved into an annual tradition for me. Sharing gratitude with your team is a way to show leadership, even outside of a management role.
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Burnout Prevention Through Strategic Reassignment
Nov 25
Corporate burnout prevention programs often miss the point entirely. Instead of addressing workload, unrealistic expectations, or systemic issues, they treat burned-out employees as the problem to be managed or removed from the equation entirely.
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When it rains …
Oct 20
Planning for an AWS outage might seem like overkill until you need to evacuate vacation rental guests during a tropical storm and your entire infrastructure goes dark. Sometimes the improbable becomes critical, and understanding your business continuity options can mean the difference between frustration and tragedy.
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Your Return-to-Office Policy is Killing Your AI Strategy
Sept 9
Organizations struggling to trust and manage remote workers will find themselves completely unprepared for the autonomous nature of AI agents. The same control issues that drive return-to-office mandates will cripple AI adoption.
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WordPress Infrastructure in 2025: Time for a Modern Approach
Aug 27
After 8 years away from WordPress, returning to WordCamp US revealed a stale hosting ecosystem. Here’s why I built Displace CLI to bring modern Kubernetes infrastructure to WordPress developers.
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Signal vs. Noise: How AI Slop Kills Conversation
Jul 24
AI-generated content is everywhere. It’s flooding our professional networks. Destroying social media. Filling news feeds. Each with generic, templated posts that follow predictable patterns. AI slop destroys meaningful discourse and makes it harder than ever to find authentic insights. But the patterns make it easy to find and ignore.
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Distilling the Cloud: The Journey Continues
Jul 16
Discover how transitioning from cloud services to self-managed infrastructure can dramatically reduce costs while maintaining reliability and security for your applications.
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Finding Balance: Building Scalable Systems While Paying the Bills
Jun 30
Engineering leaders face a constant tension: building the perfect, scalable system versus shipping products that generate revenue. Learn how successful technical leaders navigate this balance, keeping engineering excellence in sight while delivering business value that keeps the lights on.
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The Deceptive Promise of AI
Jun 26
The promise of AI automating mundane tasks seems appealing but is fundamentally flawed. It may eliminate boring jobs, but it doesn’t provide economic security. Displaced workers will be forced to seek new employment. This will turn creative passions into money-making endeavors, stripping them of their joy.
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Managing Multiple Identities with Git Configuration
May 28
Discover the power of Git’s conditional includes to automatically switch between different developer identities, email addresses, and signing keys based on your project directory structure.
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Overcoming GitOps Implementation Challenges
May 6
The GitOps movement enhances infrastructure and application management through automation and transparency but implementation always presents challenges.
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Containerized RSS
Apr 30
Join me on an exploration of FreshRSS as an alternative to the gone-but-not-forgotten Google Reader. We’ll even walk through setting it up locally with Docker and Tailscale for easy access.