I spent the day yesterday playing with Hermes. At some point I was using OpenClaw, but I decided to go with Hermes instead because it felt more polished, more professional. I still don't have a very professional or useful thing to do with it yet, but I think it can be incredibly useful once I figure...

By now we've all heard that AI is going to take away a ton of jobs — that maybe software engineers will disappear, or at the very least the market won't be what it used to be. There are lots of layoffs, and honestly, I don't know exactly what to do with my life at this point. I still have a job, and...

There's something I really should have thought about when I bought an outdoor security camera. I got a Reolink one — works fine most of the time, just like the indoor cameras — but during the winter it just stopped working. I think it was the temperature. I'm in Utah, so when it gets cold, the littl...

I came to that realization yesterday as I was contemplating my usage of Windsurf and Claude Code, both for work and for my personal projects. I realized it's been a while since I actually wrote some code myself. I've been working on pipelines, security, infrastructure, and a little bit of coding — b...

So I've been thinking a lot about AI lately, 'cuz it's the hype these days, and I keep thinking some sci-fi scenarios from movies are kind of plausible now. I was watching YouTube, and there were a few things I came across that I think could create the opportunity for scary AI scenarios — and we'r...

All right, let's get started. I've been putting off this blog for a couple of months because I never feel like I have the perfect thing to write about.