Hello, world.
First post on LogosPress — the static-first, AI-extensible blog engine I'm building to replace WordPress.
Software, side projects, the occasional unrelated detour. Forty years of code, still curious. Reach me at [email protected], or read the longer about page.
Recent writing
The Software Industry at Scale (A Few Observations From Someone Getting Old)
Forty years is enough time to watch patterns repeat. A few things I've noticed about how the industry changes — and how it doesn't.
RunPee and the API Economy (Or: What I Learned When Suppliers Get Acquired)
Over seventeen years, almost every third-party dependency RunPee relies on has changed its terms, gotten acquired, raised prices, or died. A few lessons from that.
The Book Stack Problem
I have more books than I'll ever read and I've stopped pretending that's a problem I need to solve.
On Using LLMs Without Becoming One
A year of using AI coding tools seriously, by someone who was skeptical and is now something more complicated than a convert.
Why I'm Building a CMS Around Static HTML
WordPress runs forty percent of the web and I've been trying to get away from it for a decade. Here's the architectural case for the thing I'm building instead.