A high-frequency stream of technical insights, architectural patterns, and notes from the desk.
I recently published a deep-dive into CloudFront's architecture covering its internals, origin architecture, cache behavior, security, and edge compute capabilities. The most common follow-up question: should we use CloudFront or Cloudflare?
(This is a reposting of a Renkara Media Group announcement.) Renkara Media Group is announcing AVIAN (Adaptive Vector Intelligence and Network), a framework that represents years of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, and human performance optimization.
Twenty years ago, I built a blogging platform called Narrative. It was an ASP.NET-based CMS with advanced features like automatic page rebuilding, a sophisticated tagging system, and comment spam prevention. I used it to power this site from 2003 until 2008, when I abandoned it in favor of WordPress, saying "I am much more interested in blogging than the building of blogging software." That code sat shelved for nearly two decades. Then, in 2024, I discovered Claude Code and realized that with AI assistance, I could finally bring Narrative back to life as exactly the system I'd always envisioned. This post tells that story.
Recently, I failed one, probably two, maybe even three, live coding exercises. The exercises were part of a series of interviews for a role at a startup that makes products and services I'm passionate about. I've written a different article about my thoughts on the value of live coding exercises but wanted to take this opportunity to narrate my lifetime of experience writing computer code. I don't expect this article to be of any interest to anyone, save perhaps a future interviewer, in which case I hope this lends some credence to the statement "I know how to code."