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New Site
This is the new site. It’s going to take a while to get set up. I’m giving myself until 2026 to replace my EC2 server with this (hopefully) totally static yet interactive blog/site/portal. 2026 is closing out, and all that’s left is a commenting system.
It’s All AI
Except for the content, of course. That’s still me.
Hard at Work
I spent a long time with various blogs. This one was no exception. I took a big break to master AI/LLMs. Now all of this stuff seems kind of trivial. Going to keep blogging and journaling, though. It’s just gotten a lot easier.
Test Blog Entry
What kind of stuff are you going to talk about?
I’m building a robot army. Still working out the details.
Programming
What makes for a good program? A good programmer? Why is hiring and running teams such a painful unsolved problem in the industry? How can you decide which new tech to chase and which to let slide on by?
Philosophy
I’ve moved beyond my writing and conjecture. I now have two interests: building a digital twin and the parameters, situation, backstory, and environment needed, along with the personality types, to make the best product development team possible.
Books I’ve Written
Science-Fiction/Fantasy
The Door To Nowhere
Debian Newbury is an oddball flight instructor from a small town in rural Virginia. Samuel Featherstone is an outstanding student finishing his post-grad work in cyber security and Large-Language Models. Together they fight their way through secrets that their family, job, and society have kept from them to touch the reality behind the world we experience.
Fans of Greg Egan, Clive Barker, and M. Night Shymalan will love this mind-bending adventure! Buy The Door To Nowhere
First Light
The worst part of Tuesday wasn’t writhing in pain, having flames shoot from her head, voiding her bowels and dying in screaming agony in front of a crowd of cheering onlookers. No, the worst part of Tuesday for Beverly Castler was finding out that the afterlife began in Newark, New Jersey. What a dump…
For Lem, his day ended in being abducted by drug runners in a magic truck full of corncobs and cocaine. It didn’t seem right to Lemuel Rickenbacker that it started with desperately wanting to boil the children in hot oil, but it did. Perhaps that was the punishment. There was also the matter of why anyone would want 24,000 pounds of chicken beaks and an assortment of items including a pile of rusty tricycles and three pairs of brand-new Canadian Sauna Pants…
And so begins an epic tale of life, death, faith, doubt, good, evil, serial kills, sauna pants, corncobs, meaning and redemption in a world both part of our everyday lives and far beyond them. Buy First Light
My Imaginary Team
One of the more fun things I’m doing is creating a virtual problem-solving team to help clarify problems and solve them easier.
I’ll update as we go along, but since it involves LLMs, I feel like I must include some sort of fancy diagram.
