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{"type":"archetype","id":"staff_platform_enablement","data":{"id":"staff_platform_enablement","file_slug":"mike-hall-staff-platform-lead","short_label":"Staff Platform","title":"Staff Software Engineer / Platform & Enablement Lead","target_tier":"Staff IC / Developer Platform / Engineering Enablement","identity_lens":"Shows how I create leverage through shared practices, enablement, mentorship, and durable handoffs.","evidence_path":"/case-studies/","summary":"Staff Software Engineer and Platform Lead who multiplies engineering velocity and system reliability. Proven track record of merging attrition-impacted teams into high-performing units, founding developer enablement teams, building automated verification gates, and unblocking product teams from technical debt friction.","core_skills":["Platform Enablement & Developer Productivity","Team Consolidation, Mentorship & Attrition Rescue","Automated Verification Gates & CI/CD Pipelines","Architecture Discovery & Technical Debt Reduction","Distributed Tracing & Service Legibility","Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL & Event-Driven Systems","Docker, Kubernetes & Infrastructure Automation","Working Groups, Technical Governance & SRE Alignment"],"featured_positions":[{"id":"onemain","focus":"Consolidated two attrition-impacted teams within the Acquisition Lane, the digital front door for customer applications and account workflows, founded a Team Topologies-informed engineering enablement function, and built durable community and handoff mechanisms through Geekfest@OMF and the OpenTelemetry Working Group."},{"id":"agent-tooling","focus":"Built context-isolated subagents, automated pre-commit verification gates, and telemetry-driven diagnostic tooling for AI developer runtimes."},{"id":"sk-holdings","focus":"Standardized asynchronous Sidekiq delivery pipelines and automated CI/CD deployment routines."},{"id":"tandem","focus":"Led client architecture modernizations, pairing and mentoring engineering teams in TDD, automated testing discipline, and continuous delivery."},{"id":"obtiva","focus":"Delivered high-stakes consulting architectures, training client teams in Ruby on Rails, agile delivery rhythms, and software craftsmanship."}],"selected_projects":[{"id":"agent-tooling"},{"id":"technical-conversation-archive"},{"id":"wwworkremote"}],"additional_experience":[{"id":"benchprep"},{"id":"reachlocal"},{"id":"coderwall"},{"id":"groupon"}]}}
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{"type":"archetype","id":"founding_staff_fullstack","data":{"id":"founding_staff_fullstack","file_slug":"mike-hall-founding-staff-engineer","short_label":"Founding Staff","title":"Founding Staff Engineer (0-to-1 Product & AI Systems)","target_tier":"Early-Stage / High Agency / 0-to-1 Product & AI Engineering","identity_lens":"Shows how I turn ambiguity into working software with tight feedback and explicit verification.","evidence_path":"/phalanx-duel/","summary":"Hands-on Founding Staff Engineer who translates product ambiguity into robust, production-ready software. Combines full-stack web development (Rails, PostgreSQL, modern JS/TypeScript) with practical local-first AI engineering (pgvector embeddings, local LLM orchestration, prompt injection defense, and browser automation).","core_skills":["0-to-1 Full-Stack Architecture & Rapid Prototyping","Local-First AI Orchestration (llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, Claude API)","Vector Embeddings & Semantic Search (PostgreSQL pgvector)","Prompt Injection Defense & Multi-Stage Guardrails","AI Agent Workflows & MCP Server Integration (Python, Node.js)","Automated Schema Inference & Dynamic JSON Pipelines","Ruby on Rails, Node.js, WebSockets & Real-Time Sync","High Agency, Autonomous Problem Solving"],"featured_positions":[{"id":"onemain","focus":"Built practical AI prototypes with a hackathon team, introduced local-first workflows through Geekfest@OMF, and helped establish safer ways to apply emerging tools to platform work."},{"id":"phalanx-duel","focus":"Built a server-authoritative deterministic game platform in TypeScript and Node.js: pure rules engine, append-only action ledger, WebSocket real-time sync, and property-based Truth Gate verification gates across the full state lifecycle."},{"id":"wwworkremote","focus":"Architected multi-source Rails ingestion pipeline, pgvector semantic search, local-first YAML model registry, 4-stage prompt injection defense, and 16-adapter MV3 Chrome extension."},{"id":"technical-conversation-archive","focus":"Built local-only Whisper transcription pipeline, semantic taxonomy cross-linking, and build-time schema enforcement gates for a multi-decade tech interview media corpus."}],"selected_projects":[{"id":"agent-tooling"}],"additional_experience":[{"id":"coderwall"},{"id":"reachlocal"},{"id":"sk-holdings"},{"id":"groupon"},{"id":"ticketsnow"}]}}
{"type":"archetype","id":"observability_resilience_specialist","data":{"id":"observability_resilience_specialist","file_slug":"mike-hall-observability-resilience-specialist","short_label":"Observability","title":"Staff Observability & Resilience Architect","target_tier":"Observability / Site Reliability / System Telemetry","identity_lens":"Shows how I turn dark system behavior into useful signal, diagnosis, and safer decisions.","evidence_path":"/panoramic-view/","summary":"Observability and Resilience Architect specializing in illuminating dark telemetry, enterprise OpenTelemetry rollouts, and deep incident root cause triage. Eliminates cross-service blind spots by engineering end-to-end distributed trace propagation across legacy microservices and modern cloud infrastructure.","core_skills":["OpenTelemetry Working Group Leadership & Governance","Distributed Trace Context Propagation (W3C Trace Context)","OTel Collector Pipeline Engineering (Receivers, Processors, Exporters)","Dark Telemetry Illumination & Latency Bottleneck Detection","Edge PII Scrubbing, Masking & Sensitive Data Governance","Production Incident Triage for 100+ Person Bridge Calls","APM & Backend Integration (OpenObserve, Datadog, ELK, Prometheus)","High-Concurrency Distributed Systems Reliability"],"featured_positions":[{"id":"onemain","focus":"Founded and led the OpenTelemetry Working Group, establishing distributed observability across application and integration boundaries and connecting system signals to incident response and safer change."},{"id":"agent-tooling","focus":"Built telemetry-driven diagnosis MCP server exposing distributed traces and error budgets directly to AI agent runtimes."},{"id":"wwworkremote","focus":"Built comprehensive error tracking and validation guardrails for continuous document ingestion and model inference."},{"id":"activecampaign","focus":"Made previously opaque PHP backend behavior observable through structured query patterns and test coverage, improving change safety and developer feedback loops."},{"id":"groupon","focus":"Engineered fraud detection queries in Vertica and conducted exploratory anomaly detection spikes in Hadoop and Clojure."}],"selected_projects":[{"id":"agent-tooling"},{"id":"technical-conversation-archive"}],"additional_experience":[{"id":"sk-holdings"},{"id":"benchprep"},{"id":"reachlocal"},{"id":"ticketsnow"}]}}
{"type":"position","id":"activecampaign","data":{"company":{"name":"ActiveCampaign","location":"Chicago, IL"},"title":"Senior Software Developer","type":"Contract","start_date":"2018-09-01","end_date":"2018-12-01","date_precision":"month","id":"activecampaign","summary":"Short-term senior contract on the Contacts team of a large-scale PHP/MySQL CRM platform. Focused on testability, performance, and change safety inside a tightly coupled legacy backend while extending the Ember.js frontend test suite.","public_summary":"Software Engineer on a large CRM platform, focused on testability, performance, and safer change inside a legacy backend.","public_highlights":[{"text":"Replaced fragile data-access patterns with structured, testable queries and improved performance."},{"text":"Strengthened automated verification around core customer workflows, enabling safer refactoring."}],"highlights":[{"text":"Legacy Query Modernization: Replaced ad-hoc global data access with structured, cacheable query patterns in the PHP backend, enabling unit testability and sub-second query execution."},{"text":"Frontend Verification Gates: Hardened Ember.js automated test suites across core CRM contact workflows, creating safety gates that enabled non-breaking legacy PHP refactoring."}],"skills":["PHP","MySQL","Ember.js","JavaScript","Legacy System Modernization","Backend System Architecture","Automated Testing","Performance Optimization"],"related_interviews":["interview-with-charley-baker-general","igor-polevoy-general"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"agent-tooling","data":{"company":{"name":"Local AI Orchestration & Developer Runtime","location":"Independent Project"},"title":"Principal Architect","type":"Project","start_date":"2026-01-01","end_date":null,"date_precision":"year","id":"agent-tooling","summary":"Built and operate three MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that expose live system state as callable tools to any MCP client, alongside the Claude Code skills, context-isolated subagents, and commit-time checks that keep agent work bounded and reviewable.\n","public_summary":"Built local-first tools that help engineers and AI systems work with clear context boundaries, observable behavior, and human-reviewed change.","public_highlights":[{"text":"Built tools that make technical context reusable across sessions without treating generated output as authority."},{"text":"Added observable diagnostics and bounded review steps to keep automated engineering work understandable and reversible."}],"highlights":[{"text":"Bidirectional Knowledge Server: Built ctx-mcp, an MCP server fronting a PostgreSQL knowledge suite that agents both query and write back to, so methodologies and lessons learned in one session are retrievable in the next rather than re-derived.\n"},{"text":"Telemetry-Driven Diagnosis: Built o2-mcp, exposing on-demand OpenObserve telemetry (errors, slow spans, failed jobs, distributed traces) as agent-callable tools, so an agent diagnoses a running system from observed behavior instead of inferring from source.\n"},{"text":"Context as a Budgeted Resource: Designed context-isolated subagents that keep high-volume audit work out of the main conversation's context window, with per-client registration tooling and pre-commit hooks that reject any agent asset that isn't self-describing.\n"}],"skills":["Model Context Protocol (MCP)","Agentic Workflow Design","Claude Code","Anthropic API","LLM Tool Design","PostgreSQL","OpenTelemetry","OpenObserve","llama.cpp","whisper.cpp","Local Inference","PHI Scrubbing & Compliance","Ruby"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"bdi","data":{"company":{"name":"Business Decisions, Inc.","location":"Remote"},"title":"Principal Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2008-10-01","end_date":"2009-08-01","date_precision":"month","id":"bdi","summary":"Owned all technical strategy and system development, leading lifecycle modernization for multi-firm consulting teams.","highlights":["Directed technical strategy and end-to-end software development across multi-firm consulting teams, establishing reliable delivery standards.","Automated continuous integration pipelines using Subversion and CruiseControl.NET, eliminating manual build errors.","Engineered standardized VMware development environments, reducing contractor onboarding time from days to hours."],"skills":["C#","ASP.NET","Microsoft SQL Server","Subversion","CruiseControl.NET","VMWare","IIS","JavaScript","JSON"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"benchprep","data":{"company":{"name":"BenchPrep","location":"Chicago, IL"},"title":"Senior Software Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2017-03-01","end_date":"2018-02-01","date_precision":"month","id":"benchprep","summary":"Owned enterprise assessment workflows, leading correctness and platform security in a high-concurrency environment.","highlights":[{"text":"Assessment Query Optimization: Optimized complex PostgreSQL calculations across high-stakes exam scoring engines, eliminating calculation drift and reducing query latency."},{"text":"JWT Response Verification: Implemented JWT-based cryptographic payload signing and once-only processing, securing exam submission pipelines against client-side tampering."},{"text":"Secure Embedded Client APIs: Designed secure cross-origin API boundaries for embedded enterprise assessment clients, establishing explicit authentication and trust contracts."}],"skills":["Ruby","Ruby on Rails","PostgreSQL","JWT Authentication","Backend System Architecture","Secure API Design","Database Performance Optimization","Observability and Logging"],"related_interviews":["paul-baker-general","katrina-owen-general"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"bp","data":{"company":{"name":"BP","location":"Naperville, IL"},"title":"Senior Software Developer","type":"Contract","start_date":"2005-06-01","end_date":"2005-11-01","date_precision":"month","id":"bp","summary":"Owned critical feature enhancements for an industrial invoicing system, leading performance optimization in high-volume billing workflows.","highlights":["Engineered core invoicing features in VB.NET, streamlining high-volume industrial billing workflows.","Redesigned stored procedures and optimized SQL Server query execution plans, significantly reducing latency in critical end-of-month billing cycles."],"skills":["ASP.NET","C#","Microsoft SQL Server","Transact-SQL (T-SQL)","Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)","Windows Server"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"brightstar","data":{"company":{"name":"Brightstar Corporation","location":"Libertyville, IL"},"title":"Senior .NET Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2007-03-01","end_date":"2008-04-01","date_precision":"month","id":"brightstar","summary":"Owned enterprise supply-chain integration, leading cross-system data unification for a global mobile device distributor.","highlights":["Orchestrated an enterprise BizTalk integration unifying purchase orders, inventory, and financial systems across global distribution centers.","Designed and built an operational dashboard giving leadership real-time visibility into global supply-chain throughput.","Integrated Solomon accounting software with custom internal platforms using SubSonic ORM and T-SQL, eliminating manual accounting reconciliation."],"skills":["C#","ASP.NET","Microsoft BizTalk Server","Microsoft SQL Server","SubSonic ORM","Solomon Accounting Software","Transact-SQL (T-SQL)","XML","SOAP"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"ch-robinson","data":{"company":{"name":"C.H. Robinson","location":"Oakbrook, IL"},"title":"System Administrator","type":"Full-time","start_date":"1999-12-01","end_date":"2000-07-01","date_precision":"month","id":"ch-robinson","summary":"Owned critical site infrastructure, leading early logistics workflow automation in a high-availability environment.","highlights":["Managed site server infrastructure and hardware upgrades, ensuring 24/7 uptime for regional logistics operations.","Prototyped an automated shipment booking workflow, reducing manual scheduling overhead for freight operations."],"skills":["Windows NT","Windows 98"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"coderwall","data":{"company":{"name":"Coderwall","location":"Remote"},"title":"Open-Source Transition Lead","type":"Contract","start_date":"2014-01-01","end_date":"2014-12-01","date_precision":"month","id":"coderwall","summary":"Hired as a contractor by the founder to lead the open-source transition of the Coderwall developer reputation platform, a Y Combinator-backed professional network for software engineers (856 GitHub stars, 304 forks). Delivered security hardening, proprietary service extraction, infrastructure modernization, and community leadership as the top contributor to the open-source codebase.","highlights":[{"text":"Open-Source Transition & Security Hardening: Led open-source transition for a YC-backed developer network (856 GitHub stars, 304 forks), closing critical SQL injection, XSS, and Symbol DoS vulnerabilities before public release."},{"text":"Proprietary Service Decoupling: Extracted proprietary billing engines and scoring algorithms into isolated backend services with clean API stubs, safeguarding business logic."},{"text":"Database Migration & Sidekiq Modernization: Executed two-phase database migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL and converted legacy Resque jobs to Sidekiq, cutting operational costs."}],"skills":["Ruby","Ruby on Rails","PostgreSQL","Redis","Sidekiq","ElasticSearch","AWS S3","Heroku","JavaScript","Backbone.js","MongoDB","Vagrant","Travis CI"],"related_interviews":["how-to-say-ugtastic-general","ashe-dryden-general"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"groupon","data":{"company":{"name":"Groupon","location":"Chicago, IL","url":"https://www.groupon.com","sameAs":["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153093","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupon"]},"title":"Software Engineer & Technical Onboarding Lead (Fraud & Taxonomy Systems)","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2011-07-01","end_date":"2013-05-01","date_precision":"month","id":"groupon","summary":"Owned core backend systems for fraud and taxonomy, leading global engineering enablement during hyper-growth.","highlights":[{"text":"Centralized Taxonomy Service: Implemented merchant taxonomy service in Java and MySQL, eliminating categorization drift across distributed product teams during hypergrowth."},{"text":"Analytical Fraud Detection: Built analytical fraud detection queries in Vertica and conducted exploratory spikes on Hadoop and Clojure for transaction anomaly scoring."},{"text":"Merchant Analytics Pipelines: Built high-throughput merchant analytics tools in Ruby and CouchDB, surfacing market insights for global sales operations."},{"text":"Global Engineering Enablement: Redesigned technical onboarding curricula, standardizing engineering practices and shortening time-to-first-commit for 100+ global engineering hires."}],"skills":["Ruby","Java","Clojure","CouchDB","Vertica","Hadoop","MySQL","Redis","JavaScript","Bash"],"related_interviews":["dave-hoover-geekfest-geekfest","steve-kim-jim-suchy-chicago-software-craftsmanship-chicago-software-craftsmanship","ray-hightower-chicagoruby-software-craftsmanship-north-america-2011"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"ips","data":{"company":{"name":"Integrated Performance Solutions, Inc.","location":"East Dundee, IL"},"title":"Programmer Analyst","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2003-11-01","end_date":"2004-07-01","date_precision":"month","id":"ips","summary":"Owned dynamic reporting architecture, leading the platform transition from classic ASP to .NET environments.","highlights":["Developed a custom report rules engine and UI, allowing end users to generate dynamic reports without engineering intervention.","Engineered a dynamic SQL rules wizard using early JSON data structures to support flexible reporting schemas.","Migrated legacy reporting components to ASP.NET Web Forms, establishing modern .NET architectural standards."],"skills":["ASP.NET","Active Server Pages (ASP)","JavaScript","JSON","Microsoft SQL Server","Transact-SQL (T-SQL)","Visual Studio .NET","CSS"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"jpmc","data":{"company":{"name":"JPMorgan Chase & Co.","location":"Chicago, IL","url":"https://www.jpmorganchase.com","sameAs":["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192314","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase"]},"title":"Assistant Vice President, Application Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2008-04-01","end_date":"2008-10-01","date_precision":"month","id":"jpmc","summary":"Owned cross-system integration stability, leading defect resolution in regulated financial workflows.","highlights":["Diagnosed and resolved complex distributed integration failures across SOAP-based web services, restoring reliability to high-value financial transaction workflows.","Eliminated data desynchronization bugs between .NET middle-tier services and legacy mainframe accounting systems, ensuring exact reporting accuracy for institutional clients."],"skills":["C#","ASP.NET","SOAP","XML","Microsoft SQL Server","Transact-SQL (T-SQL)","Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)","JSON"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"klobomedia","data":{"company":{"name":"KloboMedia","location":"Remote"},"title":"CTO","type":"Founder","start_date":"2014-03-01","end_date":"2016-09-01","date_precision":"month","id":"klobomedia","summary":"Owned end-to-end platform architecture, leading high-throughput data integration for an early-stage social media startup. The product, TheSocReport, ended when the upstream data taps closed: Twitter's firehose shutdown and the closing of Facebook's and Instagram's user-intelligence APIs removed the inputs the analytics depended on.","highlights":["Architected a social analytics platform integrating Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram APIs, delivering unified audience engagement metrics.","Designed an asynchronous ingestion pipeline using Sidekiq Enterprise and Redis, processing real-time social streams under burst traffic.","Implemented a PostgreSQL JSONB document storage architecture, allowing fast schema evolution across heterogeneous third-party API payloads.","Automated multi-cloud deployment pipelines across Heroku and AWS, establishing reproducible staging and production infrastructure."],"skills":["Ruby","Ruby on Rails","PostgreSQL","Redis","Sidekiq","Amazon RDS","Heroku","DigitalOcean","Twitter API","Facebook Graph API","Instagram API"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"motorola","data":{"company":{"name":"Motorola","location":"Libertyville, IL"},"title":"Senior Software Developer","type":"Contract","start_date":"2004-08-01","end_date":"2005-05-01","date_precision":"month","id":"motorola","summary":"Owned retail feature delivery, leading iterative execution in a complex enterprise sales portfolio application.","highlights":["Introduced Scrum agile practices to cross-functional enterprise teams, increasing release predictability and milestone transparency.","Developed core retail portfolio features in C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server, supporting high-volume device sales operations."],"skills":["C#","ASP.NET","Microsoft SQL Server","SOAP","Scrum","Transact-SQL (T-SQL)","XML"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"new-labor-strategies","data":{"company":{"name":"New Labor Strategies, Inc.","location":"Park Ridge, IL"},"title":"Programmer Analyst","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2002-06-01","end_date":"2003-11-01","date_precision":"month","id":"new-labor-strategies","summary":"Owned kiosk-based HR modules, leading frontend modernization for high-friction factory floor environments.","highlights":["Engineered touch-screen interfaces and automated job-bidding modules for factory floor kiosks, streamlining workforce shift operations.","Refactored legacy VBScript workflows with client-side JavaScript, significantly improving UI responsiveness on embedded kiosk hardware."],"skills":["Active Server Pages (ASP)","VBScript","JavaScript","Microsoft SQL Server","CSS","HTML"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"obtiva","data":{"company":{"name":"Obtiva","location":"Chicago, IL"},"title":"Software Engineer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2009-08-01","end_date":"2011-07-01","date_precision":"month","id":"obtiva","summary":"Delivered backend systems and services as a consultant across multiple clients, including Sears, Leapfrog Online, and Groupon, supporting early-stage scaling and data-driven operations in high-growth environments.\n","highlights":[{"text":"Self-Service Analytics Platforms: Built reporting platforms for Leapfrog Online, enabling business stakeholders to query and export data warehouse analytics autonomously.\n"},{"text":"Enterprise B2B Catalog Services: Developed commercial B2B sales and product catalog integration services for Sears, opening new enterprise revenue streams.\n"},{"text":"Hypergrowth Transaction Pipelines: Engineered deal-processing services and fraud analysis pipelines at Groupon, stabilizing backend transaction infrastructure during extreme user growth.\n"}],"skills":["C#","Ruby","Ruby on Rails","JavaScript","SQL Server","MySQL","Git","RSpec","Resque","NGINX"],"related_interviews":["dave-hoover-geekfest-geekfest"],"related_topics":["Software Craftsmanship","Developer Mentorship"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"onemain","data":{"company":{"name":"OneMain Financial","location":"Remote","url":"https://www.onemainfinancial.com","sameAs":["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65089793","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneMain_Financial"]},"title":"Associate Director, Staff Engineer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2021-01-01","start_day":null,"end_date":"2026-02-01","date_precision":"month","end_day":null,"id":"onemain","summary":"Appointed as Senior Technical IC and Software Architecture Lead for the Acquisition lane of a regulated financial enterprise. Mapped the entire loan acquisition and origination pipeline end-to-end from visit to booked loan using the Panoramic View technique of longitudinal and latitudinal analysis from desktop browser to mainframe and back again at each step, and applied the same depth to the Affiliate API. Engineered an automated 5-phase PII deletion engine across 30+ tables, deployed enterprise distributed observability, and guided cross-team platform reliability.\n","public_summary":"Software Engineer and architecture lead who recovered lost knowledge and made it actionable, helping make regulated customer workflows easier to understand, safer to change, and more observable across organizational boundaries.","public_highlights":[{"text":"Mapped the loan acquisition and origination pipeline end-to-end from visit to booked loan across browser, mainframe, and Affiliate API, identifying seven distinct lending funnels."},{"text":"Built data-risk remediation and architecture-discovery practices that made legacy dependencies visible and safer to change."},{"text":"Diagnosed a production state-management defect affecting application completion and moved the system to a more durable session design without interrupting service."},{"text":"Established distributed observability across application and integration boundaries, improving the evidence available during incident response."},{"text":"Built communities of practice, mentoring loops, and handoff mechanisms that distributed technical ownership beyond a single engineer."}],"highlights":[{"text":"Originations IC Delivery & Instant Disbursement: Led the Originations Verification squad through consecutive Exceeds Expectations ratings, architecting and shipping an instant loan disbursement pipeline (funding to debit cards in minutes). Appointed Software Architect for the Acquisition Lane, later converting to Associate Director, Staff Engineer.\n"},{"text":"Acquisition Workflow Enablement & Architecture Discovery: Founded the Acquisition Lane enablement team; mapped the loan acquisition and origination pipeline end-to-end from visit to booked loan (desktop browser to mainframe and back again at each step) and the Affiliate API at the same depth, identifying seven distinct lending funnels with a tracking initiative; architected an automated 5-phase PII remediation deletion engine across 30+ tables.\n"},{"text":"Enterprise Resilience & DynamoDB Session Remediation: Diagnosed and eliminated a critical session-cookie overflow defect that caused 4% silent traffic loss of digital loan applications during e-signing; architected zero-downtime blue/green migration to DynamoDB session store with zero incidents.\n"},{"text":"Enterprise Trace & Operational Alignment: Architected distributed telemetry across Rails distributed monoliths, MuleSoft APIs, and IBM mainframe backends; partnered directly with Cybersecurity, EMC, SRE, and Incident Command to align monitoring with end-to-end distributed tracing.\n"},{"text":"Community Enablement & SRE Handoff: Founded weekly Geekfest@OMF and scaled the enterprise OpenTelemetry Working Group to 40+ cross-lane engineers; mentored and partnered with SRE leads to transition ongoing operational facilitation, establishing a durable community of practice.\n"},{"text":"Applied AI & Innovation Leadership: Placed in two corporate hackathons building conversational agents with Rasa and a schema inference prototype; pioneered local LLM orchestration and privacy-conscious AI developer tooling at Geekfest@OMF.\n"}],"case_study":{"title":"De-Risking Legacy Acquisition Workflows & Enterprise Telemetry","challenge":"Over years of rapid business expansion, high-volume financial customer loan application and origination flows accumulated implicit lateral state dependencies across multi-service Rails state machines, MuleSoft APIs, and IBM mainframe backends. Client-side session cookie bloat caused a persistent session-cookie overflow defect that silently corrupted state and dropped 4% of digital applications between offer selection and e-signing.","cartography_approach":[{"dimension":"Interaction Surface","detail":"Mapped the entire loan acquisition and origination pipeline end-to-end from initial visit to booked loan across browser, mobile, and Affiliate API ingress points, identifying seven distinct lending funnels through a dedicated tracking initiative."},{"dimension":"Lateral & Implicit State Dependencies","detail":"Inventoried the intersection of business rules, customer actions, and system state changes; mapped 40+ applicant database tables, isolated legacy clarity_ and underwriting_ orphan data, and architected an automated 5-phase PII deletion engine."},{"dimension":"Full-Stack Network & Boundary Topology","detail":"Conducted longitudinal and latitudinal analysis across the process sequence, tracing each step from desktop browser down through Rails services and MuleSoft integration layers to IBM mainframe backends and back again to establish the unified Enterprise Trace."},{"dimension":"Supply Chain & Vulnerability Exposure","detail":"Audited third-party credit bureau APIs, e-sign vendor webhooks, and boundary ingress points, providing real-time causal event chains for cybersecurity and fraud investigations."}],"outcomes":["Diagnosed and resolved a persistent session-cookie overflow defect affecting 4% of digital applicant traffic by implementing custom rescue middleware and migrating Rails session state to AWS DynamoDB with zero downtime.","Engineered an automated 5-phase PII remediation engine across 30+ tables, eliminating legacy orphan references without disrupting live application state.","Mapped the entire loan acquisition and origination pipeline end-to-end from visit to booked loan, connecting desktop browser, Rails, MuleSoft, and mainframe backends with distributed tracing to accelerate root-cause diagnosis for Incident Command.","Partnered with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Monitoring Center (EMC) to bridge immediate operational monitoring with long-term distributed telemetry and causal event attribution.","Unblocked continuous legacy modernization by establishing verified state change gates across distributed Rails services.","Founded and technically led Acquisition Lane enablement for privacy remediation, modernization, and growth-team support, while leading a 3-year enterprise community arc through Geekfest@OMF and the OpenTelemetry Working Group, then transitioning stewardship to SRE."]},"skills":["Cross-Team Technical Leadership","Platform Architecture","Legacy Modernization","Architecture Discovery","Dependency Mapping","System Resilience","Incident Leadership","DynamoDB","Observability","OpenTelemetry","Distributed Systems","Ruby on Rails","PostgreSQL","AWS"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"phalanx-duel","data":{"company":{"name":"Phalanx Duel","location":"Independent Project"},"title":"Principal Architect","type":"Project","start_date":"2022-01-01","end_date":null,"date_precision":"year","id":"phalanx-duel","summary":"Designing and building a real-time tactical game platform as a current hands-on laboratory for deterministic systems, product architecture, and controlled AI-assisted engineering.\n","public_summary":"Building a real-time tactical game as a laboratory for deterministic systems, product architecture, and carefully bounded AI-assisted engineering.","public_highlights":[{"text":"Designed replayable state transitions so complex outcomes remain reproducible and independently reviewable."},{"text":"Built verification gates that test system behavior across the full lifecycle."}],"highlights":[{"text":"Designed a deterministic engine with replayable action logs and server-authoritative state transitions, making complex outcomes reproducible and independently verifiable.\n"},{"text":"Built replay validation, adversarial coverage, and CI verification gates so state transitions can be checked across the complete lifecycle.\n"},{"text":"Uses controlled agent workflows with bounded tasks, acceptance criteria, automated checks, and human-reviewed outputs rather than treating model output as authority.\n"}],"skills":["TypeScript","Node.js","PostgreSQL","WebSockets","API Design","Distributed Systems","Deterministic Simulation","CI/CD","System Verification","AI-Augmented Development"],"related_interviews":["corey-haines-general","aaron-bedra-general","avdi-grimm-general"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"reachlocal","data":{"company":{"name":"ReachLocal","location":"Remote"},"title":"Senior Software Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2015-03-01","end_date":"2016-11-01","date_precision":"month","id":"reachlocal","summary":"Owned API design and modernization strategy, leading incremental legacy migration for a high-volume digital marketing platform.","highlights":[{"text":"Strangler-Fig Modernization: Architected incremental modernization roadmap, replacing a high-risk full rewrite with a phased Strangler-Fig migration under production load."},{"text":"Internal API Gateway: Built internal API Gateway with standardized JSON contracts and token authentication, safely isolating legacy backend services."},{"text":"Automated CI/CD Verification: Introduced automated static analysis and security scanning into deployment pipelines, preventing regression and vulnerability drift."}],"skills":["Platform Architecture","API Gateway Design","Ruby on Rails","PostgreSQL","React","Redis","Legacy System Modernization","Secure API Design","Data Migration Strategy"],"related_interviews":["charles-oliver-nutter-general","igor-polevoy-general"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"riverpoint","data":{"company":{"name":"Riverpoint Group","location":"Des Plaines, IL"},"title":"Software Developer","type":"Contract","start_date":"2004-07-01","end_date":"2004-08-01","date_precision":"month","id":"riverpoint","summary":"Owned reusable UI component architecture, leading frontend delivery for a personal health monitoring platform.","highlights":["Developed a modular library of reusable ASP.NET Web Forms components, standardizing UI consistency across patient-facing health monitoring modules.","Optimized SQL Server query performance and indexing, ensuring fast rendering for real-time patient health visualization metrics."],"skills":["ASP.NET","C#","Microsoft SQL Server","JavaScript","HTML","CSS"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"sentinel","data":{"company":{"name":"Sentinel Technologies, Inc.","location":"Downers Grove, IL"},"title":"Application Analyst","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2000-07-01","end_date":"2001-10-01","date_precision":"month","id":"sentinel","summary":"Owned custom web delivery and early OCR prototyping, leading cross-platform implementations for enterprise clients.","highlights":["Designed an early-stage OCR pipeline using Unix shell scripting and pattern extraction, parsing and digitizing semi-structured paper receipts into relational databases.","Delivered custom web applications and database integrations for enterprise clients, including Harley-Davidson.","Transitioned from JSP to Active Server Pages and Microsoft Access while learning the source-control and delivery practices of the Windows web stack."],"skills":["Java","JSP","Active Server Pages (ASP)","Microsoft Access","Visual SourceSafe","Microsoft SQL Server","JavaScript","HTML","CSS","VBScript"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"sk-holdings","data":{"company":{"name":"SK Holdings, Inc.","location":"Chicago, IL"},"title":"Senior Backend Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2019-01-01","end_date":"2020-12-01","date_precision":"month","id":"sk-holdings","summary":"Led backend stability, performance, and modernization for high-traffic Rails products, improving full-text search, campaign delivery pipelines, and data layer reliability while systems remained under production load.\n","public_summary":"Software Engineer focused on backend stability, performance, and safe modernization for high-traffic Rails products.","public_highlights":[{"text":"Improved search and asynchronous delivery systems while production traffic continued to flow."},{"text":"Led framework and database upgrades with a staged approach designed to protect service continuity."}],"highlights":[{"text":"Search Infrastructure Modernization: Eliminated external cluster failure modes and reduced operating footprint by migrating legacy Sphinx to optimized MySQL full-text search and relational indices under live production traffic.\n"},{"text":"Zero-Downtime Rails Upgrades: Led Ruby and Rails framework upgrades across core applications, sequencing database migrations to ensure zero downtime during platform modernization.\n"}],"skills":["Ruby on Rails","MySQL","Full-Text Search","Redis","Sidekiq","SendGrid Async Pipelines","Data Analytics & SQL","CI/CD","System Observability","Backend Architecture"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"tandem","data":{"company":{"name":"Tandem","location":"Chicago, IL","also_known_as":"DevMynd"},"title":"Principal Consultant","type":"Contract","start_date":"2018-08-01","end_date":"2018-08-01","date_precision":"month","id":"tandem","summary":"Conducted an on-site architectural and operational assessment for an at-risk federal software program (DoD MEPS), delivering viability analysis and risk mitigation recommendations directly to executive leadership.","highlights":[{"text":"Federal Program Viability Assessment: Conducted on-site operational research at DoD military processing facilities (MEPS), identifying critical disconnects between enlistment workflows and proposed software models.\n"},{"text":"Executive Architecture Advisory: Delivered architectural risk analysis directly to executive leadership, defining remediation paths to mitigate contractual and delivery liabilities.\n"}],"skills":["System Resilience","Platform Architecture","Federal Software Assessment","Operational Field Research"],"related_interviews":["interview-with-dan-north-general","sergio-pereira-chicago-alt-net-software-craftsmanship-north-america-2011"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"technical-conversation-archive","data":{"company":{"name":"Technical Conversation Archive","location":"Independent Project"},"title":"Principal Engineer & Curator","type":"Project","start_date":"2011-01-01","end_date":null,"date_precision":"year","id":"technical-conversation-archive","summary":"Recorded, and later restored, an archive of 214 technical interviews with practitioners from the Ruby, JVM, and Software Craftsmanship movements, using a local-only AI pipeline to transcribe, structure, and cross-link a longitudinal record of primary-source material into a searchable knowledge graph.\n","highlights":[{"text":"Local-Only AI Restoration Pipeline: Built a Whisper and local-LLM pipeline that transcribes, diarizes, and structures long-form interview audio entirely on-device, keeping a large private media corpus off third-party inference services.\n"},{"text":"Schema-Validated Content Platform: Runs on a contract-validated data layer: every interview, asset, and transcript is checked against an explicit schema at build time, with referential-integrity checks that fail the build rather than publishing broken data.\n"},{"text":"Semantic Cross-Linking & Taxonomy Generation: Generates a topic taxonomy, knowledge graph, and semantic cross-links across the corpus, turning an unstructured media archive into navigable, individually indexed pages.\n"},{"text":"Primary-Source Capture: Conducted the original interviews on-site at GOTO Conference, Software Craftsmanship North America, RailsConf, and WindyCityRails, with practitioners including Dave Thomas, Stuart Halloway, Corey Haines, Sandro Mancuso, and Micah Martin.\n"},{"text":"Digital Archaeology: Recovered and reconstructed material from defunct platforms and web archives, reconciling incomplete metadata across sources to restore provenance for recordings that would otherwise have been lost.\n"}],"skills":["Local-First AI Inference","Whisper & Speech-to-Text","LLM-Assisted Content Structuring","Knowledge Graph Construction","Semantic Search & Taxonomy","Schema Validation & Data Contracts","Digital Preservation","Ruby","Jekyll","SEO & Information Architecture"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"ticketsnow","data":{"company":{"name":"TicketsNow","location":"Crystal Lake, IL"},"title":"Senior .NET Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2005-11-01","end_date":"2007-03-01","date_precision":"month","id":"ticketsnow","summary":"Owned real-time inventory systems, leading transactional integrity and iterative delivery for revenue-critical operations.","highlights":["Architected a real-time inventory locking and transaction reconciliation service, preventing race conditions on concurrent ticket sales and generating $2M+ in protected revenue.","Introduced and led Scrum agile practices for the core transaction engineering team, improving sprint delivery predictability."],"skills":["C#","ASP.NET","Microsoft BizTalk Server","Microsoft SQL Server","Scrum","Transact-SQL (T-SQL)","SOAP","CodeSmith API","JSON","JavaScript"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"trippe","data":{"company":{"name":"Trippe Manufacturing, Inc.","location":"Chicago, IL"},"title":"Software Developer","type":"Contract","start_date":"2001-10-01","end_date":"2001-12-01","date_precision":"month","id":"trippe","summary":"Owned sales lead tracking systems, leading data automation and business continuity during a high-risk vendor transition.","highlights":["Engineered an automated sales lead ingestion and validation pipeline, eliminating manual data entry errors.","Stepped in as direct technical lead following an unexpected vendor departure, maintaining uninterrupted sales tracking continuity."],"skills":["Microsoft Access","Visual Basic","Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)","Visual SourceSafe"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"upcity","data":{"company":{"name":"Upcity","location":"Remote"},"title":"Senior Software Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2013-10-01","end_date":"2014-02-01","date_precision":"month","id":"upcity","summary":"Owned payment integrations and local development infrastructure, leading system modernization for an SOA-based marketing platform.","highlights":["Integrated the Chargify subscription payment platform, launching self-service recurring billing and account management.","Standardized local development environments using multi-VM Vagrant orchestration, eliminating developer environment drift against production."],"skills":["Ruby","Ruby on Rails","PostgreSQL","Redis","Sidekiq","Riak","Vagrant","NGINX","Capistrano","Bash","Ubuntu"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"viewpoints","data":{"company":{"name":"Viewpoints","location":"Chicago, IL"},"title":"Senior Software Developer","type":"Full-time","start_date":"2013-05-01","end_date":"2013-10-01","date_precision":"month","id":"viewpoints","summary":"Owned core business system development, leading AWS deployment modernization and CI implementation.","highlights":["Implemented custom tracking and analytics tools, enabling targeted monetization and direct platform revenue.","Standardized automated testing and staging environments, establishing reliable continuous integration across the engineering team.","Streamlined AWS deployment pipelines and server images, eliminating deployment downtime during peak consumer traffic spikes."],"skills":["Ruby","Ruby on Rails","AWS EC2","AWS RDS","PostgreSQL","Redis","Resque","Capistrano","NGINX","Sidekiq","Logentries"]}}
{"type":"position","id":"wwworkremote","data":{"company":{"name":"WWWorkRemote","location":"Independent Project"},"title":"Principal Architect","type":"Project","start_date":"2021-01-01","end_date":null,"date_precision":"month","id":"wwworkremote","summary":"Rails 8 platform for multi-source job ingestion, semantic matching, and application automation, built as a working laboratory for local-first LLM orchestration and treating scraped third-party text as hostile input.\n","public_summary":"Building a Rails platform for structured research, semantic search, and human-directed automation.","public_highlights":[{"text":"Unified fragmented sources into a searchable data model for downstream analysis."},{"text":"Designed local-first AI workflows with explicit safety boundaries around untrusted input and sensitive context."}],"highlights":[{"text":"Multi-Source Data Ingestion: Built a multi-source Rails ingestion pipeline and PostgreSQL storage schema, unifying fragmented job market datasets for structured downstream analysis.\n"},{"text":"Semantic Search & Embeddings: Implemented vector search embeddings via pgvector, enabling high-precision semantic matching between complex candidate profiles and job requirements.\n"},{"text":"Local-First AI Orchestration: Designed provider-agnostic LLM orchestration layer (llama.cpp/Ollama with hosted Claude fallback), enforcing local-first inference for sensitive data with per-call model routing.\n"},{"text":"Prompt Injection Defense: Built a 4-stage guardrails pipeline screening untrusted scraped text via weighted heuristics and instruction-density scoring before model ingestion.\n"},{"text":"Browser Extension & Lifecycle Capture: Built an MV3 Chrome extension with 16 provider adapters that extracts postings from live ATS pages and captures full application lifecycles.\n"},{"text":"Architectural Constraint Injection: Injected static analysis rules and architectural constraints into model context windows, preventing drift between generated outputs and security contracts.\n"}],"skills":["Ruby on Rails","PostgreSQL","pgvector","Vector Search & Embeddings","LLM Orchestration","Prompt Injection Defense","Local Inference","Chrome Extensions (MV3)","API Design","Data Pipelines","System Design","OpenTelemetry","Distributed Systems"]}}
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Identified seven distinct lending funnels through a dedicated tracking initiative, engineered an automated 5-phase PII deletion engine across 30+ tables, and deployed enterprise OpenTelemetry distributed tracing.","modernization_thesis":"Modernization became possible only after the system became understandable. The work restored reliable signal, mapped actual behavior, and created safer conditions for change across a shared Rails platform.","distinctive_contribution":"Mike conceived and pitched the cross-functional SME working group strategy to OMF engineering leadership, establishing that platform modernization scales through empowered domain working groups rather than architectural bottlenecks. He recovered lost knowledge and made it actionable, made complex system behavior explainable, connected runtime evidence to squad ownership, and built repeated learning practices that made platform changes safe.","modernization_quote":"“Fix what’s broken, upgrade the stuff that works, and stabilize the system to allow change. That is the real path to modernization.”","quote_provenance":"Mike's retrospective recollection, recorded November 20, 2025, referring to his OMF Tech ELT presentation. A May 15, 2025 record independently confirms the presentation and its substance.","methodology_lesson":"Innovation is repairing broken systems so they can be understood, improved, and moved forward. Mike's documented method is Inventory, Evaluate, Address. 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{"type":"publication","id":"the-landlord","data":{"slug":"the-landlord","date":"2007-04-21","year":2007,"title":"The Landlord","categories":[],"tags":["blogger","frogsbrain","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"The LandlordThis had to take an eternity to film. That or she is a born natural.","url":"/2007/04/21/the-landlord/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"how-would-you-unit-test-this","data":{"slug":"how-would-you-unit-test-this","date":"2007-06-22","year":2007,"title":"How would you unit test this?","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","just-kidding"],"excerpt":"if ( Jack.WorkQuantity == \"All\"    && Jack.PlayQuantity == \"No\" ){    Jack.BoyType = BoyTypes.Dull;} It’s a trick question, the answer is “Don’t.” Go outside, nerd.","url":"/2007/06/22/how-would-you-unit-test-this/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"know-what-s-cool-blogging-from-your-installer-is-cool","data":{"slug":"know-what-s-cool-blogging-from-your-installer-is-cool","date":"2007-07-16","year":2007,"title":"Know what's cool?  Blogging from your installer is cool.","categories":[],"tags":["blogger","frogsbrain","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"The pendulum is swinging back towards Linux again for me. As my wife has noticed and much to her irritation, every couple months I'll take another shot at replacing my Microsoft...","url":"/2007/07/16/know-what-s-cool-blogging-from-your-installer-is-cool/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"shared-server-etiquette","data":{"slug":"shared-server-etiquette","date":"2007-07-23","year":2007,"title":"Shared Server Etiquette","categories":[],"tags":["blogger","frogsbrain","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"Log offDon't stay logged into shared machines, log off when you are done. The performance overhead of multiple logged in users is bad enough when we're all working, but do we reall","url":"/2007/07/23/shared-server-etiquette/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"cool-tool-quick-sequence-diagram-editor","data":{"slug":"cool-tool-quick-sequence-diagram-editor","date":"2008-07-31","year":2008,"title":"Cool Tool: “Quick Sequence Diagram Editor”","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","java","non-microsoft","sequence-diagram","tutorial","uml"],"excerpt":"UML is painful and tedious. Or I meant to say that creating UML diagrams is painful and tedious. Mostly because the tools are graphical and require some level of ability to layout ","url":"/2008/07/31/cool-tool-quick-sequence-diagram-editor/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"sonicfilefinder-should-be-in-every-visual-studio-developers-toolbox","data":{"slug":"sonicfilefinder-should-be-in-every-visual-studio-developers-toolbox","date":"2009-03-16","year":2009,"title":"SonicFileFinder should be in *every* visual studio developers toolbox.","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","visual-studio"],"excerpt":"Why use SonicFileFinder? It’s awesome. It’s free. SonicFileFinder provides a quick index of all the files in your Visual Studio solution. It’s like Intellisense for your files. I p","url":"/2009/03/16/sonicfilefinder-should-be-in-every-visual-studio-developers-toolbox/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"asp-net-mvc-1-0-released","data":{"slug":"asp-net-mvc-1-0-released","date":"2009-03-18","year":2009,"title":"ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released!","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","asp-net-mvc"],"excerpt":"I’m probably the 100,000th person to blog this but, what the heck. http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2009/03/18/ASPNET-MVC-10-has-been-released!.aspx Glorious day, now as soon as","url":"/2009/03/18/asp-net-mvc-1-0-released/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"chicagoland-software-developer-user-groups","data":{"slug":"chicagoland-software-developer-user-groups","date":"2009-03-18","year":2009,"title":"Chicagoland Software Developer User Groups","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","alt-net","chicago","coder-to-developer","meetup","networking","professional","self-improvement","software-architect","user-groups"],"excerpt":"Chicago Alt.NET A group dedicated to the Alt.NET manifesto. I’ve been to a few meetings and they were always fun. The group organizer Sergio Pereira is very active in the Chicago .","url":"/2009/03/18/chicagoland-software-developer-user-groups/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"rant-on-building-strings-in-c","data":{"slug":"rant-on-building-strings-in-c","date":"2009-03-18","year":2009,"title":"Rant on building strings in C#","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","c"],"excerpt":"Okay, I’ve inherited a codebase with no shortage of embedded strings, but there is one thing driving me batty. string strSomething = \"The Hungarian Notat\" + \"ion is bad enough.\r\n","url":"/2009/03/18/rant-on-building-strings-in-c/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"does-my-android-dream-of-electric-sheep","data":{"slug":"does-my-android-dream-of-electric-sheep","date":"2009-03-20","year":2009,"title":"Does My Android Dream of Electric Sheep?","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","android","tech"],"excerpt":"I bought a T-Mobile G1 Android phone either on or around the official launch date and thought it was going to be another gadget/toy that would be fun for awhile and then just be an","url":"/2009/03/20/does-my-android-dream-of-electric-sheep/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"rockford-net-user-group-meeting-recap","data":{"slug":"rockford-net-user-group-meeting-recap","date":"2009-03-25","year":2009,"title":"Rockford .NET User Group Meeting Recap","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","alt-net","coder-to-developer","javascript","self-improvement"],"excerpt":"This was a fun one. The forum was a more traditional style where the audience listens and the speaker presents. Though Sergio’s laid back presentation style was a good fit and kept","url":"/2009/03/25/rockford-net-user-group-meeting-recap/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"using-twitter-as-a-simplified-message-distribution-platform-aka-using-twitter-how-it-was-d","data":{"slug":"using-twitter-as-a-simplified-message-distribution-platform-aka-using-twitter-how-it-was-d","date":"2009-03-29","year":2009,"title":"Using Twitter as a Simplified Message Distribution Platform (aka using Twitter how it was designed).","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","rest","c","fun","idea","patterns"],"excerpt":"In a nutshell, I can send short commands via DM to a Twitter account that is following me. On the servers I wish to control I have installed agents that monitor the Twitter account","url":"/2009/03/29/using-twitter-as-a-simplified-message-distribution-platform-aka-using-twitter-how-it-was-d/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"make-your-code-pretty-on-wordpress-com-with-syntaxhighlighter","data":{"slug":"make-your-code-pretty-on-wordpress-com-with-syntaxhighlighter","date":"2009-05-17","year":2009,"title":"Make Your Code Pretty On WordPress.com With SyntaxHighlighter.","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized"],"excerpt":"Yet another “note-to-self” post. I’m always forgetting and having to search for the documentation on how to pretty-print source code in posts. WordPress.com has integrated support ","url":"/2009/05/17/make-your-code-pretty-on-wordpress-com-with-syntaxhighlighter/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"set-classic-search-as-default-search-engine-over-desktop-search-in-xp-2003","data":{"slug":"set-classic-search-as-default-search-engine-over-desktop-search-in-xp-2003","date":"2009-05-17","year":2009,"title":"Set “Classic Search” as Default Search Engine Over Desktop Search in XP/2003","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","note-to-self","tech","wds","ws2k3","xp"],"excerpt":"This post is more for own benefit because whenever I setup a new system I have to go looking for this setting. If you have Windows Desktop Search installed but don’t like it being ","url":"/2009/05/17/set-classic-search-as-default-search-engine-over-desktop-search-in-xp-2003/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"it-s-like-an-ice-pick-in-my-brain-disable-the-system-beep-on-a-vm","data":{"slug":"it-s-like-an-ice-pick-in-my-brain-disable-the-system-beep-on-a-vm","date":"2009-05-18","year":2009,"title":"It’s like an Ice Pick in my Brain (disable the system beep on a VM)","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","note-to-self","vm"],"excerpt":"The horrible, horrible system beep is an artifact of an ancient time when computers were too much like R2-D2, communicating in a series of beeps and whistles only understood by ham","url":"/2009/05/18/it-s-like-an-ice-pick-in-my-brain-disable-the-system-beep-on-a-vm/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"integrate-beyond-compare-3-into-your-tortoisesvn-merge-process-or-any-other-client","data":{"slug":"integrate-beyond-compare-3-into-your-tortoisesvn-merge-process-or-any-other-client","date":"2009-05-19","year":2009,"title":"Integrate Beyond Compare 3 Into Your TortoiseSVN Merge Process (or Any Other Client)","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","merge","notes-to-self","tortoisesvn"],"excerpt":"Scroll down to the TortoiseSVN section and follow the instructions.","url":"/2009/05/19/integrate-beyond-compare-3-into-your-tortoisesvn-merge-process-or-any-other-client/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"terminal-services-goes-wonky","data":{"slug":"terminal-services-goes-wonky","date":"2009-05-19","year":2009,"title":"Terminal Services Goes Wonky","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","mstsc","note-to-self","pita","rdp"],"excerpt":"Okay, this was a pain in the tuckus. Not sure which service pack hosed me but I lost a couple hours trying to figure out why I wasn’t able to connect from my Virtual Server host in","url":"/2009/05/19/terminal-services-goes-wonky/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"terrible-icons-in-high-resolution-mode-in-rdp-mstsc","data":{"slug":"terrible-icons-in-high-resolution-mode-in-rdp-mstsc","date":"2009-05-19","year":2009,"title":"Terrible Icons in High Resolution Mode in RDP/MSTSC","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","annoyances","mstsc","notes-to-self","rdp"],"excerpt":"I’ve learned one thing from Twittering, and that’s just say whatever comes to mind. Hence I’ve started writing these little one-off posts. Yet another inane thing that I’ve come ac","url":"/2009/05/19/terrible-icons-in-high-resolution-mode-in-rdp-mstsc/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"how-can-chicagoland-microsoft-developers-improve-their-community","data":{"slug":"how-can-chicagoland-microsoft-developers-improve-their-community","date":"2009-06-12","year":2009,"title":"How Can Chicagoland Microsoft Developers Improve Their Community?","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","chicago","code-camp","coder-to-developer","community","conferences","conventions","developer","microsoft","networking","speaking","user-groups"],"excerpt":"","url":"/2009/06/12/how-can-chicagoland-microsoft-developers-improve-their-community/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"iowa-code-camp","data":{"slug":"iowa-code-camp","date":"2009-11-07","year":2009,"title":"Iowa Code Camp","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized"],"excerpt":"","url":"/2009/11/07/iowa-code-camp/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"string-formatting-in-javascript","data":{"slug":"string-formatting-in-javascript","date":"2009-11-07","year":2009,"title":"String Formatting In JavaScript","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","javascript","code"],"excerpt":"A follow-up on JavaScript string formatting patterns, including static and prototype-based implementations and community alternatives.","url":"/2009/11/07/string-formatting-in-javascript/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"the-poor-developer-s-object-datastore-iteration-000","data":{"slug":"the-poor-developer-s-object-datastore-iteration-000","date":"2009-12-02","year":2009,"title":"The Poor Developer’s Object DataStore: Iteration 000","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","net","alt-net","database","c","dotnet","oodbms","xquery","xpath","serialization","mssql","object-database","objects","csharp","rdbms","relational-database","xml-sql-server","linq","linq-to-sql","linq-to-xml","l2s"],"excerpt":"This is part zero of a multi-part series. Jump to The Poor Developer’s Object DataStore: Iteration 001 for the first code drop. What is an object datastore? For an object-oriented ","url":"/2009/12/02/the-poor-developer-s-object-datastore-iteration-000/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"the-trouble-with-titles","data":{"slug":"the-trouble-with-titles","date":"2009-12-09","year":2009,"title":"The Trouble with Titles","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","thoughts","career","titles"],"excerpt":"Chief Principal Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect Manager Somewhere in the world there is someone with a title just like that. In my previous employer I ended up with the title","url":"/2009/12/09/the-trouble-with-titles/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"is-it-culpable-in-the-decline-of-the-united-states","data":{"slug":"is-it-culpable-in-the-decline-of-the-united-states","date":"2009-12-14","year":2009,"title":"Is IT Culpable in the Decline of the United States?","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","professional","thoughts","industry"],"excerpt":"Think about the application you are working on right now. What does it do? I don’t mean whether you’re writing some fancy bit of technological wonder. I mean what does your applica","url":"/2009/12/14/is-it-culpable-in-the-decline-of-the-united-states/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"clean-aop-using-post-multicast-syntax","data":{"slug":"clean-aop-using-post-multicast-syntax","date":"2009-12-27","year":2009,"title":"Clean AOP using Post# Multicast Syntax.","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","aop","net","aspect","aspect-oriented-programming","c","csharp","post","postsharp"],"excerpt":"Post# is a powerful and relatively mature Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) framework for .NET. I love it and use it in every project that I have a need to implement crosscutting c","url":"/2009/12/27/clean-aop-using-post-multicast-syntax/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-first-meeting-in-review","data":{"slug":"mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-first-meeting-in-review","date":"2009-12-28","year":2009,"title":"McHenry Cloud Developer’s Group: First Meeting in Review","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","cloud","community","networking","user-group","google-app-engine","azure","amazon","mchenry","illinois","cloud-developer-s-group"],"excerpt":"Well, we’re finally underway! And a good start it is. We started the meeting off with a short introduction to the group and some ideas on what direction we could take the group. Af","url":"/2009/12/28/mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-first-meeting-in-review/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"a-month-of-blog","data":{"slug":"a-month-of-blog","date":"2009-12-29","year":2009,"title":"A Month of Blog","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","blogging","personal","challenge","writing"],"excerpt":"If you are going to take on a difficult challenge declare your intentions publicly. So that way you at least you have the fear of shame to motivate you. Thirty to ninety day initia","url":"/2009/12/29/a-month-of-blog/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"skinning-your-asp-net-mvc-application-based-on-your-sub-domain","data":{"slug":"skinning-your-asp-net-mvc-application-based-on-your-sub-domain","date":"2010-01-03","year":2010,"title":"Skinning your ASP.NET MVC Application Based On Your Sub-domain.","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","asp-net-mvc"],"excerpt":"","url":"/2010/01/03/skinning-your-asp-net-mvc-application-based-on-your-sub-domain/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"building-net-with-ruby","data":{"slug":"building-net-with-ruby","date":"2010-01-05","year":2010,"title":"Building .NET with Ruby","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","continuous-integration"],"excerpt":"","url":"/2010/01/05/building-net-with-ruby/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"updated-structuremap-question-always-returning-the-last-registry-in-the-list","data":{"slug":"updated-structuremap-question-always-returning-the-last-registry-in-the-list","date":"2010-01-10","year":2010,"title":"[UPDATED] StructureMap Question, Always Returning the Last Registry in the List","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","net","asp-net-mvc","c"],"excerpt":"","url":"/2010/01/10/updated-structuremap-question-always-returning-the-last-registry-in-the-list/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"coding-architects-senior-developer","data":{"slug":"coding-architects-senior-developer","date":"2010-01-11","year":2010,"title":"Coding Architects != Senior Developer","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","opinion","thoughts"],"excerpt":"I worked at a company with “coding architects” who were actually senior developers in disguise. It was so obvious that they were more interested in working on some little side proj","url":"/2010/01/11/coding-architects-senior-developer/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"january-mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-meeting","data":{"slug":"january-mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-meeting","date":"2010-01-13","year":2010,"title":"January McHenry Cloud Developer’s Group Meeting.","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized"],"excerpt":"first, I’d like to point out an intentional wording of the group’s name “Developer’s”. The apostrophe means that this isn’t a group of developers but a group owned by developers. I","url":"/2010/01/13/january-mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-meeting/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"playing-with-httpmodules-httpresponse-filters-and-streams-in-net","data":{"slug":"playing-with-httpmodules-httpresponse-filters-and-streams-in-net","date":"2010-01-15","year":2010,"title":"Playing with HttpModules, HttpResponse.Filters and Streams in .NET","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","asp-net","c","csharp","css","html","http","stream"],"excerpt":"Previously, I created a little Html extension to help with skinning a website based on the subdomain. It is working out for me pretty well in my current project, but I wanted somet","url":"/2010/01/15/playing-with-httpmodules-httpresponse-filters-and-streams-in-net/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"chicago-code-camp-2","data":{"slug":"chicago-code-camp-2","date":"2010-01-16","year":2010,"title":"Chicago Code Camp 2","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized"],"excerpt":"The planning has begun for the second annual Chicago Code Camp. To put it in software development terms, we’re still in the “early alpha pre-release” phase. As soon as we have conc","url":"/2010/01/16/chicago-code-camp-2/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"ironruby-tell-me-what-do-you-see-here","data":{"slug":"ironruby-tell-me-what-do-you-see-here","date":"2010-01-17","year":2010,"title":"IronRuby: Tell Me. What Do You See Here?","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","ironruby","rspec"],"excerpt":"view source Click to unmute Download all save files 100% It looks like hardware acceleration is disabled. While Ruffle may work, it could be very slow. You can find out how to enab","url":"/2010/01/17/ironruby-tell-me-what-do-you-see-here/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"roundup-of-cool-ironruby-stuff","data":{"slug":"roundup-of-cool-ironruby-stuff","date":"2010-01-17","year":2010,"title":"Roundup of Cool IronRuby Stuff.","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","fun","ironruby","rails","ruby"],"excerpt":"This is the laziest blog post of the month. I’ve been completely distracted this afternoon playing around with IronRuby. Last night I got Ruby on Rails running on the latest releas","url":"/2010/01/17/roundup-of-cool-ironruby-stuff/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"why-we-need-installers-for-ironruby-and-ironpython","data":{"slug":"why-we-need-installers-for-ironruby-and-ironpython","date":"2010-01-18","year":2010,"title":"Why We Need Installers for IronRuby and IronPython","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","installers","ironpython","ironruby"],"excerpt":"Recently on Twitter (where else anymore?) at least one person commented that they don’t understand why Microsoft developers would need an installer for tools like IronRuby and Iron","url":"/2010/01/18/why-we-need-installers-for-ironruby-and-ironpython/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"career-and-family-also-known-as-this-here-s-for-reals-yo","data":{"slug":"career-and-family-also-known-as-this-here-s-for-reals-yo","date":"2010-01-19","year":2010,"title":"Career and Family. Also Known As “This Here’s For Reals, Yo.”","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","career","family","personal"],"excerpt":"A little over two years ago I found out that my wife was pregnant. I of course did the logical thing and broke down in tears. Then I realized something, I need to take this stuff s","url":"/2010/01/19/career-and-family-also-known-as-this-here-s-for-reals-yo/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"quantity-over-quality","data":{"slug":"quantity-over-quality","date":"2010-01-20","year":2010,"title":"Quantity Over Quality.","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized"],"excerpt":"Last night I had a severe case of writer’s block when I sat down to write my post. I already wrote my easy posts and didn’t have time for researching a more advanced topic. Then my","url":"/2010/01/20/quantity-over-quality/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"mvc-song","data":{"slug":"mvc-song","date":"2010-01-25","year":2010,"title":"MVC Song","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","fun","learning","mvc","song"],"excerpt":"42.241134 -88.316197 Filed under: Uncategorized , fun, learning, mvc, song","url":"/2010/01/25/mvc-song/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"ironruby-at-obtiva-s-geekfest","data":{"slug":"ironruby-at-obtiva-s-geekfest","date":"2010-01-27","year":2010,"title":"IronRuby at Obtiva’s Geekfest","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","geekfest","ironruby","obtiva","presentation"],"excerpt":"I got a chance to present IronRuby to a group of some of the most hardcore Ruby fanatics in Chicago today. And I’ve survived to tell the tale. Not too much to say other than my .NE","url":"/2010/01/27/ironruby-at-obtiva-s-geekfest/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"what-comes-after-alt-net","data":{"slug":"what-comes-after-alt-net","date":"2010-01-30","year":2010,"title":"What comes after Alt.NET?","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","not-net"],"excerpt":"Between contracting with Obtiva and working at a client site where I and my co-developer are the only .NET developers on the site I’ve been focusing on learning tools and languages","url":"/2010/01/30/what-comes-after-alt-net/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-february-meeting","data":{"slug":"mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-february-meeting","date":"2010-01-31","year":2010,"title":"McHenry Cloud Developer’s Group February Meeting","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","azure","cloud","cloud-developer-s-group","user-group"],"excerpt":"February 8th, 2010. The McHenry Cloud Developer’s Group will be hosting it’s 3rd meeting. The night’s topic will be “Hello, World.” on the Microsoft Azure Platform. Presented by no","url":"/2010/01/31/mchenry-cloud-developer-s-group-february-meeting/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"biting-off-almost-more-than-you-can-chew","data":{"slug":"biting-off-almost-more-than-you-can-chew","date":"2010-02-01","year":2010,"title":"Biting Off (Almost) More Than You Can Chew.","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","done"],"excerpt":"37 posts in 31 days! I’m finally at the end of my month long challenge to blog everyday. I had lofty goals of writing insightful and info laden posts but given the aggresive schedu","url":"/2010/02/01/biting-off-almost-more-than-you-can-chew/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"february-challenge-very-improved-developer","data":{"slug":"february-challenge-very-improved-developer","date":"2010-02-01","year":2010,"title":"February Challenge: Very Improved Developer","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback","uncategorized","challenge","vim"],"excerpt":"Okay, here’s my next personal challenge. Learn Vim. Period. I’m taking away all my editors, save Visual Studio. I need Visual Studio to pay the bills (for now). So bye-bye TextPad,","url":"/2010/02/01/february-challenge-very-improved-developer/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"mixed-emotions","data":{"slug":"mixed-emotions","date":"2010-02-11","year":2010,"title":"Mixed Emotions","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"Sitting on the floor of our kitchen. Eating my wife’s “Hippy cakes.” Daughter bopping around banging kitchen utensils as classical piano music also plays in the","url":"/2010/02/11/mixed-emotions/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"minor-updates-itunes-and-ironlanguages-net","data":{"slug":"minor-updates-itunes-and-ironlanguages-net","date":"2010-06-28","year":2010,"title":"Minor Updates: iTunes and IronLanguages.net","categories":[],"tags":["podcast","ironlanguages","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"Some minor housekeeping updates... We have a new domain for our site... http://ironlanguages.net Although the relatively new, but deprecated url of http://ironlanguages.posterous.c","url":"/2010/06/28/minor-updates-itunes-and-ironlanguages-net/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"next-show-dlr-ironruby-and-ironshay","data":{"slug":"next-show-dlr-ironruby-and-ironshay","date":"2010-07-09","year":2010,"title":"Next Show: DLR, IronRuby and IronShay","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"We're going to be interviewing Shay Friedman, aka @ironshay. Shay is the author of IronRuby Unleashed an IronRuby MVP and blogs at http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/","url":"/2010/07/09/next-show-dlr-ironruby-and-ironshay/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"episode-2-chat-with-shay-ironshay-friedman","data":{"slug":"episode-2-chat-with-shay-ironshay-friedman","date":"2010-07-18","year":2010,"title":"Episode 2 – Chat with Shay “IronShay” Friedman","categories":[],"tags":["wordpress","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"You can listen to this and all the episodes at the official home of the IronLanguages.net podcast. Will and Mike chat with Shay “IronShay” Friedman, an IronRuby","url":"/2010/07/18/episode-2-chat-with-shay-ironshay-friedman/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"upcoming-iron-languages-podcast-episodes","data":{"slug":"upcoming-iron-languages-podcast-episodes","date":"2010-08-09","year":2010,"title":"Upcoming Iron Languages Podcast Episodes","categories":[],"tags":["podcast","ironlanguages","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"We recorded two episodes of The Iron Languages Podcast: 'Mentoring, Rumbling, Bridging with Rails, Ruby, JavaScript & HTML' with Brian Hogan and 'That ''nu'' Thing' with Dru Sellers and Rob Reynolds.","url":"/2010/08/09/upcoming-iron-languages-podcast-episodes/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"interview-with-jeff-hardy","data":{"slug":"interview-with-jeff-hardy","date":"2010-09-30","year":2010,"title":"Interview with Jeff Hardy","categories":[],"tags":["podcast","ironlanguages","republished","wayback"],"excerpt":"Tonight we're going to sit down to chat with Jeff Hardy, an IronPython MVP and apparently a daschund in a hotdog costume for all the pictures I could find of him on the interwebs. ","url":"/2010/09/30/interview-with-jeff-hardy/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"re-getting-back-on-the-bike","data":{"slug":"re-getting-back-on-the-bike","date":"2012-01-22","year":2012,"title":"Re-getting back on the bike.","categories":[],"tags":["blogger","republished","wayback","beginnings","personal"],"excerpt":"It's been little under two years since I'd written the \" Getting back on the bike \" post a lot has changed for me. I've been working with Ob...","url":"/2012/01/22/re-getting-back-on-the-bike/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"moving-off-google-to-google","data":{"slug":"moving-off-google-to-google","date":"2012-02-09","year":2012,"title":"Moving off Google to Google.","categories":[],"tags":["blogger","republished","wayback","accounts","google","identity","services"],"excerpt":"Google Apps excited the heck out of me from the day it was announced. The prospect of being able to manage my own domain on the world class ...","url":"/2012/02/09/moving-off-google-to-google/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"how-upgrading-to-lion-and-performing-a-clean-re-install-of-xcode-4-3-made-homebrew-cry-and","data":{"slug":"how-upgrading-to-lion-and-performing-a-clean-re-install-of-xcode-4-3-made-homebrew-cry-and","date":"2012-02-17","year":2012,"title":"How upgrading to Lion and performing a clean re-install of Xcode 4.3 made Homebrew cry and how to fix it.","categories":[],"tags":["blogger","republished","wayback","homebrew","lion","os-x","xcode"],"excerpt":"I had the brilliant idea to upgrade to OS X Lion and perform a clean re-install of Xcode 4.3. As with most brilliant ideas that involve upgr...","url":"/2012/02/17/how-upgrading-to-lion-and-performing-a-clean-re-install-of-xcode-4-3-made-homebrew-cry-and/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"360-learning-at-user-groups","data":{"slug":"360-learning-at-user-groups","date":"2012-09-26","year":2012,"title":"360 Learning at User Groups","categories":[],"tags":["Community","User Groups","Learning","Facilitating"],"excerpt":"## Retrospective This article reflects on the idea that learning at user groups is multi-directional: the speaker, the audience, and the organizer all learn in different ways at the same time. The key insight is that facilitation is an active craft, a","url":"/2012/09/26/360-learning-at-user-groups/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"using-postgres-regex-expressions-to-find-very-specific-matches","data":{"slug":"using-postgres-regex-expressions-to-find-very-specific-matches","date":"2015-02-25","year":2015,"title":"Using Postgres RegEx Expressions to Find Very Specific Matches","categories":[],"tags":["PostgreSQL","RegEx","Ruby on Rails","SQL"],"excerpt":"Coderwall has been having issues with certain avatars generating 403 errors in the browser console. You probably wouldn't notice unless you had your dev tools open while you were browsing but there were a little over 25% of our Twitter avatars that we","url":"/2015/02/25/using-postgres-regex-expressions-to-find-very-specific-matches/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"leverage-the-j-in-jruby-for-powerful-concurrency","data":{"slug":"leverage-the-j-in-jruby-for-powerful-concurrency","date":"2015-04-27","year":2015,"title":"Leverage the \"J\" in JRuby for Powerful Concurrency","categories":[],"tags":["Ruby","JRuby","Java","Concurrency","JVM"],"excerpt":"I was working on a project that required some heavy-weight processing of links to determine if they were valid based on a variety of criteria. Since the standard Ruby interpreter was running each process sequentially the naive approach was taking a pr","url":"/2015/04/27/leverage-the-j-in-jruby-for-powerful-concurrency/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"mentorship-starts-with-a-conversation","data":{"slug":"mentorship-starts-with-a-conversation","date":"2024-12-28","year":2024,"title":"Mentorship Starts With a Conversation","categories":[],"tags":["linkedin","republished"],"excerpt":"If you're a senior developer working with colleagues just a few years junior to you, you already have everything you need to be a mentor. It doesn’t take years of preparation or a formal program to begin—it starts with curiosity and conversation. Ask ","url":"/2024/12/28/mentorship-starts-with-a-conversation/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"practice-vs-repetition-the-key-to-real-growth","data":{"slug":"practice-vs-repetition-the-key-to-real-growth","date":"2025-01-04","year":2025,"title":"Practice vs. Repetition: The Key to Real Growth","categories":[],"tags":["linkedin","republished"],"excerpt":"We’ve all heard the phrase, “Practice makes perfect.” But does it? Not really. Practice doesn’t make perfect. It makes you better . But only if you’re doing it right. Here’s the thing: practice and repetition are not the same. Repetition—mindlessly do","url":"/2025/01/04/practice-vs-repetition-the-key-to-real-growth/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"the-sound-of-tokens","data":{"slug":"the-sound-of-tokens","date":"2026-04-04","year":2026,"title":"The Sound of Tokens: From 80's Arcades to the AI Era","categories":[],"tags":["Technical Strategy","AI","ROI","linkedin","republished"],"excerpt":"Reflections on the original 'pay to win' arcade systems and their parallel to AI token consumption. Evaluating the ROI of experience in a tokenized world.","url":"/2026/04/04/the-sound-of-tokens/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"forensic-engineering-restoring-207-lost-conversations-with-local-ai","data":{"slug":"forensic-engineering-restoring-207-lost-conversations-with-local-ai","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"Forensic Engineering: Restoring 207 Lost Technical Conversations with Local AI","categories":[],"tags":["AI Engineering","Digital Archeology","Software Craftsmanship","Audio Engineering","Python","UGtastic"],"excerpt":"Over a decade of software engineering history was trapped in low-bitrate MP3s, dead RSS feeds, and deprecated hosting platforms. Here is how I used local AI (Whisper and LLM pipelines) to perform digital archeology and restore 207 high-bandwidth techn","url":"/2026/08/20/forensic-engineering-restoring-207-lost-conversations-with-local-ai/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"security-at-the-seam-brakeman-railsconf-and-monolith-audits","data":{"slug":"security-at-the-seam-brakeman-railsconf-and-monolith-audits","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"Security at the Seam: Lessons from Brakeman, RailsConf 2014, and Monolith Audits","categories":[],"tags":["Security","Static Analysis","Brakeman","Ruby on Rails","Architecture","UGtastic"],"excerpt":"At RailsConf 2014, static AST analysis was just beginning to transform web security. Here is how Justin Collins built Brakeman to catch architectural vulnerabilities, and what auditing production monoliths taught us about defensive boundaries.","url":"/2026/08/20/security-at-the-seam-brakeman-railsconf-and-monolith-audits/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"system-cartography-part-1-the-executive-legibility-gap","data":{"slug":"system-cartography-part-1-the-executive-legibility-gap","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"System Cartography: Part 1 :  The Executive Legibility Gap and the Map of Business Decisions","categories":[],"tags":["System Cartography","Architecture","Leadership","Enterprise","Panoramic View"],"excerpt":"In every mature company, Product, Engineering, and Leadership have three conflicting mental models of how the system works. Here is why mapping decision locations is the prerequisite for accurate staffing, modernizations, and capital decisions.","url":"/2026/08/20/system-cartography-part-1-the-executive-legibility-gap/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"system-cartography-part-4-finding-the-seam-and-the-strangler-fig","data":{"slug":"system-cartography-part-4-finding-the-seam-and-the-strangler-fig","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"System Cartography: Part 4 :  Finding the Seam: How the Panoramic View Powers the Strangler Fig","categories":[],"tags":["System Cartography","Strangler Fig","Architecture","Modernization","Panoramic View"],"excerpt":"The Strangler Fig pattern is the gold standard for legacy system modernization, but it fails if you cut in the wrong place. Here is how the Panoramic View identifies clean architectural seams for zero-risk service extraction.","url":"/2026/08/20/system-cartography-part-4-finding-the-seam-and-the-strangler-fig/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"system-cartography-part-5-the-4-dimensional-topology-map","data":{"slug":"system-cartography-part-5-the-4-dimensional-topology-map","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"System Cartography: Part 5 :  The 4-Dimensional Topology Map","categories":[],"tags":["System Cartography","Architecture","Enterprise","Security","Panoramic View"],"excerpt":"A single architecture diagram cannot capture modern system reality. System Cartography models platforms across four explicit dimensions: Interaction Surfaces, Lateral State Dependencies, Infrastructure Topology, and Supply Chain Exposure.","url":"/2026/08/20/system-cartography-part-5-the-4-dimensional-topology-map/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"the-clean-break-migrating-mongodb-to-postgresql-under-load","data":{"slug":"the-clean-break-migrating-mongodb-to-postgresql-under-load","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"The Clean Break: Migrating a Production Graph from MongoDB to PostgreSQL Under Load","categories":[],"tags":["PostgreSQL","MongoDB","Database Architecture","Ruby on Rails","Retrospective","Coderwall"],"excerpt":"In the 2012–2014 era, MongoDB was the default choice for rapid prototyping and developer graphs. Here is how we migrated Coderwall's entire data model to PostgreSQL while maintaining live traffic and zero downtime.","url":"/2026/08/20/the-clean-break-migrating-mongodb-to-postgresql-under-load/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"the-evolution-of-async-jobs-from-resque-to-sidekiq","data":{"slug":"the-evolution-of-async-jobs-from-resque-to-sidekiq","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"The Evolution of Async Jobs: From Resque and Cron to Sidekiq and Modern Event Streams","categories":[],"tags":["Architecture","Redis","Sidekiq","Ruby on Rails","Performance","Retrospective"],"excerpt":"Background queues are the invisible nervous system of web architectures. Here is how managing high-volume email engines, scheduled tasks, and event workers evolved from fork-heavy Resque processes to thread-safe Sidekiq pools.","url":"/2026/08/20/the-evolution-of-async-jobs-from-resque-to-sidekiq/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"the-human-side-of-software-craftsmanship-dan-north-sandro-mancuso","data":{"slug":"the-human-side-of-software-craftsmanship-dan-north-sandro-mancuso","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"The Human Side of Software Craftsmanship: Conversations with Dan North, Sandro Mancuso, and the Pioneers","categories":[],"tags":["Software Craftsmanship","Testing","Leadership","UGtastic","Retrospective","History"],"excerpt":"When Dan North created BDD and Sandro Mancuso organized the Software Craftsmanship movement, it was never about dogmatic testing rules. It was about developer dignity, psychological safety, and human mentorship. Here is what we learned from the oral h","url":"/2026/08/20/the-human-side-of-software-craftsmanship-dan-north-sandro-mancuso/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"the-panoramic-engineer-principal-ic-as-forensic-cartographer","data":{"slug":"the-panoramic-engineer-principal-ic-as-forensic-cartographer","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"The Panoramic Engineer: Why Tomorrow's Principal IC is a Forensic Cartographer","categories":[],"tags":["System Cartography","Leadership","Career Strategy","Panoramic View","Retrospective"],"excerpt":"In an era where AI agents generate code in seconds, the bottleneck of software engineering is no longer writing syntax. It is system understanding, boundary verification, and cultural memory. Here is why the Principal Engineer of the future must be a ","url":"/2026/08/20/the-panoramic-engineer-principal-ic-as-forensic-cartographer/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"the-zero-dollar-conference-chicago-code-camp-retrospective","data":{"slug":"the-zero-dollar-conference-chicago-code-camp-retrospective","date":"2026-08-20","year":2026,"title":"The Zero-Dollar Conference: How We Ran Chicago Code Camp on Static Rails and Blind CFPs","categories":[],"tags":["Chicago Code Camp","Community","Event Planning","Web Development","Retrospective"],"excerpt":"How do you coordinate a free, 500-person multi-track conference on a zero-dollar software budget? Looking back at Chicago Code Camp (2010–2012), blind speaker selection, and static schedule generation on spotty venue Wi-Fi.","url":"/2026/08/20/the-zero-dollar-conference-chicago-code-camp-retrospective/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"adequate-record-and-giving-110-percent-with-aaron-patterson","data":{"slug":"adequate-record-and-giving-110-percent-with-aaron-patterson","date":"2026-08-21","year":2026,"title":"AdequateRecord, J2EE Escapes, and Giving 110 Percent with Aaron Patterson","categories":["engineering-history","ruby-on-rails","open-source"],"tags":["railsconf","aaron-patterson","activerecord","ruby","open-source","performance"],"excerpt":"A look back at RailsConf 2014 with Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove), unveiling AdequateRecord, Perl origins, and the evolution of Rails query performance.","url":"/2026/08/21/adequate-record-and-giving-110-percent-with-aaron-patterson/"}}
{"type":"publication","id":"kubecon-na-2023-field-retrospective-observability-finops","data":{"slug":"kubecon-na-2023-field-retrospective-observability-finops","date":"2026-08-21","year":2026,"title":"KubeCon NA 2023 Field Retrospective: Telemetry Pipelines, Structured Logs, and Cloud Cost Realities","categories":["Architecture","Observability","Retrospective"],"tags":["KubeCon","CNCF","Observability","OpenTelemetry","Fluent Bit","Structured Logging","FinOps","Architecture"],"excerpt":"A four-day technical field retrospective from KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, breaking down CI/CD telemetry, Kubernetes WG Structured Logging, Fluent Bit pipelines, and FinOps postmortems.","url":"/2026/08/21/kubecon-na-2023-field-retrospective-observability-finops/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"system-cartography-how-to-map-a-ten-year-old-monolith","data":{"slug":"system-cartography-how-to-map-a-ten-year-old-monolith","date":"2026-08-29","year":2026,"title":"System Cartography: How to Map a 10-Year Monolith Without Losing Your Mind","categories":["Architecture","Systems Engineering"],"tags":["architecture","legacy-modernization","system-cartography","distributed-systems","rails","opentelemetry"],"excerpt":"When entering an opaque, high-consequence legacy system, refactoring before mapping is a recipe for disaster. Here is the 4-dimensional System Cartography framework for empirical codebase discovery.","url":"/2026/08/29/system-cartography-how-to-map-a-ten-year-old-monolith/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"hunting-the-4-percent-defect-rails-cookie-overflow","data":{"slug":"hunting-the-4-percent-defect-rails-cookie-overflow","date":"2026-08-30","year":2026,"title":"Restoring a Hidden 4% of Customer Applications","categories":["Architecture","Ruby on Rails"],"tags":["ruby-on-rails","dynamodb","session-storage","architecture","incident-response","reliability"],"excerpt":"A silent session-state failure caused 4% of customer loan applications to drop out. I traced it to oversized Rails session cookies, added a defensive seam, and moved session storage to DynamoDB.","url":"/2026/08/30/hunting-the-4-percent-defect-rails-cookie-overflow/"}}
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{"type":"publication","id":"pragmatic-local-first-ai-for-enterprise-code-discovery","data":{"slug":"pragmatic-local-first-ai-for-enterprise-code-discovery","date":"2026-08-30","year":2026,"title":"Pragmatic Local-First AI for Enterprise Code Discovery","categories":["Architecture","AI"],"tags":["local-ai","mcp","developer-tooling","system-cartography","knowledge-graphs","agents"],"excerpt":"Dumping 500k lines of legacy code into cloud LLM prompts leaks IP and produces hallucinations. Here is how to architect a deterministic, local-first code discovery engine.","url":"/2026/08/30/pragmatic-local-first-ai-for-enterprise-code-discovery/"}}
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