Writing — 225 essays

Cultivating ideas at the intersection of Engineering and Systems Thinking.

A collection of essays, frameworks, and early-stage thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, and the human side of software.

Systems Map

Core architectural nodes of research.

account_tree

Platform Org Design

Scaling engineering teams via structural abstraction.

biotech

Feedback Loops

Entropy management in high-velocity CI/CD environments.

psychology

Human Factors

Cognitive load and its impact on system availability.

architecture

Pragmatic API

Designing interfaces that survive generational shifts.

history

Legacy Refactor

Social strategies for technical debt retirement.

Thinking in Public

225 Nodes
Nov 2, 2010Archive

Google Profile Idea: The Standalone Google Buzz Client

After setting up my Google Profile page I started to think about how great it would be if my Google Profiles page was able to be the standalone client for…

Nov 1, 2010Archive

Added Two New Sections: Most Popular Posts & Places That This Post Has Been Mentioned

Continuing with my goal to make this website easier to use and I have added two new sections this weekend. The first section is located on the sidebar called Popular…

Oct 28, 2010Archive

WiFi Direct And The Dawn Of A New Home Theater System

There were many different technologies that were supposed to help eliminate clutter for our home theater systems, such as: Infrared, Bluetooth, HDMI, Wireless HDMI(WHDMI), WiDi and Wireless USB but to…

Oct 27, 2010Archive

Code Comment Examples

Over the years that I have been programming I have come across and even used many variations of comments. Below you will find examples of different code comments. /* i…

Oct 26, 2010Archive

Google Fails Again When It Comes To Adding Google Buzz To Its Own Products

Ok, so I am kind of upset at Google right now. Google finally adds sharing support to Google moderator but they left out the most important social network..... * again…

Oct 26, 2010Archive

Links of the Week 11-9-09 to 11-16-09

Here is a blog post that I wrote almost a year ago today, but never published. Instead of letting this information sit on my server I decided to share it…

Oct 25, 2010Archive

Using Robots And Technology For People With Special Needs

Going over my Google Reader I found the article " Five Therapy Robots Helping With Alzheimer’s, Autism & Cancer " on Geek Beat TV and when I read the article…

Oct 24, 2010Archive

Added Better Page Navigation

Continuing with the goal of making my personal website easier to use, I have changed my page navigation from "Previous Post" and "Next Post" to displaying page numbers. Now you…

Oct 22, 2010Archive

Why Google TV Will Help Websites For People With Disabilities

One of the things that I'm passionate about is trying to make websites for everyone. Not just the majority of us that can see , hear , and touch just…

Oct 21, 2010Archive

My Review Of GetGlue.com

A few months ago, I stumbled acrossed the service getglue.com . At first I thought that the service was overwhelming and that I would never use it, well a few…