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The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There's a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, what can be accomplished, and its implications for the future. The

I don't doubt that jobs associated with software engineering are undergoing a massive sea change. While I was far less certain as to its applicability a year ago, tools like Codex, Claude Code, and OpenCode are effective and - to me - can provide value. T

I favor taking a view of exploration and even play where I can, and encourage you to do so as well. I recognize that Im in a supremely privileged position to be able to think of it all this way. Give yourself leeway to try things, to screw it up, to get t

I've cobbled a lot of software over my career, led teams, coordinated large groups to both build and run products, to create (digital) infrastructure, even built a company and sold it. But I think the best thing I ever made - or honestly helped to make, a

Head's up: this post is a technical deep dive into the code of DocC, the Swift language documentation system. Not that my content doesn't tend to be heavily technical, but this goes even further than usual. The Setup While I was working on some documentat

There is a lot of great stuff coming in the Swift programming language. I love the focus and effort on validating data-race safety, and is probably the feature set that I'll spend the most time with. But my favorite new tidbit? Swift 6 now supports a Linu

Images from adjacent to downtown Seattle (meaning a LOT of light pollution), from 11:20 to 11:50pm local time, May 10th. Most of this was nearly impossible to see at this color with the naked eye. They seemed like wispy clouds, and only the very brightest

I cut an initial release (0.1.0-alpha) of the library automerge-repo-swift. A supplemental library to Automerge swift, it adds background networking for sync and storage capabilities. The library extends code I initially created in the Automerge demo app

This weekend I was frustrated with my debugging, and just not up to digging in and carefully, meticulously analyzing what was happening. So … I took a left turn (at Alburquerque) and decided to explore an older idea to see if it was interesting and/or use

During WWDC 2023, Apple presented a number of developer-impacting privacy updates. One of the updates, introducing the concept of a privacy manifest, has a direct impact on the work I've been doing making the CRDT library Automerge available on Apple plat