Practical Methods for Programming Self-Study đź”—
Programming is one of the few professions where the learning never really stops. Languages evolve, frameworks rise and fall, and the “best practices” [...]
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The Equipment Doesn’t Wait for the Approval 🔗
AUGUST ISSUE OF THE CURRENT GE Vernova’s gas turbine backlog hit 100 gigawatts in the first quarter of 2026. Standard large power transformers now ave [...]
Your Interconnection Costs Depend on Your Neighbors đź”—
The network upgrade bill is usually what decides whether a generation project gets built. It is also, uncomfortably, not really a property of the proj [...]
A Convention Is Not a Constraint đź”—
Every multi-tenant application makes a promise: Tenant A will never see Tenant B’s data. And in every multi-tenant application, something is responsib [...]
A Tale of Two Grids đź”—
Originally published on Feb 2, 2023 The power grid is the largest, most complex, and most important machine ever constructed. It is the network that e [...]
When the Pieces Don’t Add Up: The Mystery of the Full File System 🔗
If you boil down all of the reasons that I love what I do it all comes down to one thing. I like solving puzzles. This is the one profession that I ha [...]
The Grid the Hyperscalers Are Trying to Outrun đź”—
JULY ISSUE OF THE CURRENT The data-center power story keeps getting told as an exit from the grid. The hyperscalers building their own generation in n [...]
Cultivating Creativity đź”—
Cultivating Creativity Where does creativity originate? Is it a skill we can sharpen, or an external force we must wait for? Two of my favorite thinke [...]
Make Your Work Environment Work Well for You đź”—
I recently saw a post about someone who had converted their entire basement into a complex system that would make it easier for them to manage their l [...]
The Balanced Scorecard for the AI Era đź”—
“Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work on the Grid In the tech world, the standard advice is to “move fast and break things.” But if you manage cri [...]