In 2006, I did my first start-up howcookingworks.com where the idea was a site to learn how to cook.   The first part of the site described the techniques of cooking, and the other was where cooks could connect to participants to learn from them. At the time, I went to a lot of start-up […]

44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are two repeating numbers. Other numbers that have come to mind are 22, 44, and 88. At 22,  I had just graduated from college with a computer science degree during a mild recession, so none of my […]

Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently messy, and as a result, no standard enterprise framework has emerged to dominate the space—and […]

AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces.  The terminology around this concept is still evolving, and definitions […]