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• Eight years at GoDaddy (Part 1)

  Posted on August 16, 2026

  July 15 was my last day at GoDaddy after eight years (of full time work - if you count my internships, I was involved with the company for eleven years!). That’s a long time, and even more it’s the only company I’ve worked for in my full-time career - pretty... [Read More]

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  • career

• Mussel Rock Park en route Las Vegas

  Posted on May 16, 2026

  Rory and I are in Las Vegas this weekend to visit my grandparents. Leaving a bit early for the airport, we made a brief stop at Mussel Rock Park on the coast. [Read More]

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  • travel

• Idaho ski trip - McCall

  Posted on February 21, 2026

  We took a short trip to McCall, Idaho last weekend in search of snow with our friends Kincaid and Ellie. Why McCall? Mostly convenience - a cheap flight for us, a six hour drive from Bend for them, and two resorts on Kincaid’s Indie Pass. It ended up being a... [Read More]

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  • trip-report
  • skiing

• Specmark: annotating markdown specs for AI feedback

  Posted on February 1, 2026

  The idea came to me in the AI coding frenzy this holiday season as I was burning through the extra Anthropic API limits and experimenting with development via my iPhone and Termius. For bigger features, I try to follow a spec-driven development model: Ask the agent to write a spec... [Read More]

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  • AI
  • software-development
  • projects

• 2026 theme, objectives, and key results

  Posted on January 25, 2026

  For the past few years I’ve tried to set some year-long goals according to a theme. This year: Go deeper and finish things. I’m drawn to this theme because I tend to start a lot of projects, dabble in hobbies, and leave things 80% done. This year I want to... [Read More]

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  • goals

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