Blog Articles

A collection of blog articles and thoughts on software development, technology, and other topics.

Blog Posts

Cursor Is Hiring. I Built a Game So You Can Try the Job Before You Apply.

July 20, 2026

Cursor has an opening called AI Adoption Engineer, and it's a hard role to explain in a job posting. So instead of describing it, I built a small arcade game where every mechanic is a piece of the actual job. Here's what it is and why I think it's worth ninety seconds of your time.

The Best Prompt on Your Team Is the One Nobody Else Can See

July 11, 2026

You prompt, let it run, deslop it, re-prompt. It works until the window closes. Skills, Rules, and Subagents are how you teach the agent once and let it remember — alone and on a team.

The Software Factory Is Here - and It Runs on Cursor

July 4, 2026

Everyone's talking about an AI-driven SDLC 'software factory.' Here's what that actually looks like now that Cursor has cloud agents, Bugbot, and native intake from Jira, Linear, Slack, and PagerDuty, plus the steps to wire each stage up yourself.

I Knew Git. I Just Never Had a Reason to Branch.

July 4, 2026

I learned version control back in the Subversion days, but I never learned how to work like a team. Here's how a protected main, a PR-only workflow, and Cursor holding the discipline finally closed the gap.

I Almost Didn't Try Cursor. Here's What I Was Wrong About.

June 7, 2026

I assumed Cursor was VS Code with autocomplete. Five wrong assumptions later, here's what actually changed my mind - and one low-stakes way to find out for yourself.

Asymmetric Embeddings: Building a Personal Brand RAG Pipeline with Voyage 4 + Claude

March 9, 2026

A practical guide to asymmetric retrieval: embed with the best model, query with a lighter one — and learn three different ways to get your docs into MongoDB Atlas.

Building Lightning Hire: Project Overview and Architecture

March 27, 2025

The first in a series exploring the development of Lightning Hire, an AI-powered resume evaluation system built to revolutionize the recruitment process through intelligent candidate matching.

A Day in the Life of a Principal Developer Advocate

March 27, 2025

Dive into the dynamic world of developer relations as I share what a typical day looks like in my role as a Principal Developer Advocate, from content creation to community engagement.

Boosting productivity with Cursor

March 26, 2025

Discover how Cursor's powerful rules system can streamline your coding workflow, enforce consistency, and help your team code smarter and faster.

cursor

coding

productivity

RAG chunking lifecycle: How document chunking strategies impact AI response quality

April 7, 2024

Explore how different document chunking strategies affect the quality of AI responses in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, with practical examples and code samples.

10 Tips for the Hackathon Beginner

January 26, 2019

Learn how to navigate the challenges of a hackathon and maximize your chances of success.

hackathon

developer

coding

My Last One

March 26, 2015

Michael shares the painful story of his final alcoholic binge, waking up humiliated under his desk as his wife leaves him. A friend's timely call helps him face reality, leading him to sobriety through AA. Now sober for over five years, Michael emphasizes that lasting change and a meaningful life are truly possible.

blog

test

recovery

3 Powerful Things to Remember when Speaking Publicly

March 26, 2015

Overcoming common public speaking fears to become a better communicator

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public speaking

advice