tech worker brain dump

That time that I worked at a programmatic click farm

From consulting to the sewers of the internet At some point in my consulting years, I had reached I point I totally lost the motivation to move forward. Get assigned a project, do interviews, kick-offs, hunk down in a ro…

What I learned running a URL shortner

Learning to code can be daunting and challenging. It’s easy to fall into what’s called "tutorial hell"—an endless sequence of tutorials that often have little impact on real learning. A few years ago, one weekend, I stum…

Why Reddit Feels Like a Dystopian Usenet

If you’ve spent time scrolling through Reddit’s seemingly endless subreddits, you might get a faint sense of déjà vu, especially if you were around during the early days of the internet. Reddit, with its vast array of co…