
Poof! You’re an accounting package
I pay about $2,200 a year for QuickBooks for a small boutique design firm, real mom-and-pop backbone-of-America kind of business. I was getting ready to

What Year Is It?
Everyone wants to talk about the future that AI will bring. I’d like to point out that we’re still losing small fights like the one

If Your Engineers Don’t Want to Manage Work, AI Will Be a Problem
AI is shifting engineering away from pure individual problem-solving and toward defining, directing, and reviewing work. Engineers who resist that shift for the same reasons

Where Have All the Senior Engineers Gone?
Everyone wants the productivity gain. Few want to talk about the staffing problem it may create. If AI removes a meaningful share of junior engineering

The Market Value of Software Skill Is About to Change
Why AI is starting to reprice implementation skill, and why many engineers still do not want to admit it. The most common frame for AI

The Off-Screen Helper in Senior Embedded Interviews
We have been interviewing for a Senior Embedded Engineer, and a pattern keeps showing up: candidates sitting at their computer during the interview and using

OpenClaw and the Security Problem Nobody Wants to Own
OpenClaw is a glimpse of the future: software that does real work for you. It is also a case study in how unbounded open source, plus viral distribution, turns helpful into credential theft waiting to happen.

AI Abundance Won’t Pay Your Bills: Why You Still Save for Retirement
Elon Musk said, “don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement. In like 10 or 20 years it won’t matter,” and doubled down: “you won’t

RED Cybersecurity Retrofits: Where the Cost Actually Comes From
If your product was designed before today’s security requirements, RED compliance can turn into a forced redesign. The work is usually certificates, secure protocol gaps, and memory budgets—not forms.