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Why I built a Kubernetes deployment tool
After years managing production PHP infrastructure and watching teams burn weeks on Kubernetes adoption, I built the deployment tool I wished someone had given me.
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Short Stints, Real Experience: Rethinking Career Tenure
The hiring world still clings to tenure requirements that ignore reality. I’ve been on both sides — rejecting candidates for short stints and creating holes in other engineers’ resumes myself. It’s time to rethink what “experience” actually means.
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Burnout Prevention Through Strategic Reassignment
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 …
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
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
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
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
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
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.
