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Make .local (mDNS) work in scratch/BusyBox Docker containers via a host resolver, without changing your images

Context I am running a small homelab powered by Raspberry Pi devices. By default, a Raspberry Pi advertises itself on your local network using mDNS. This allows you to reach it by using it’s hostname.

Aug 25, 2025 - 7 min read
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I've been coding with AI for two years. Here is what I've learned

Over the past two years I’ve begun writing more and more code with the assistance of AI. I started out, like many people, by using the early versions of ChatGPT to generate little snippets of code.

Jul 17, 2025 - 21 min read
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The Silicon Divine: Searching for God in Latent Space

In the beginning, we searched for God in the stars. Our ancestors huddled around fires beneath vast night skies, tracing constellations between the shimmering stars, finding divine patterns in the heavens.

Mar 14, 2025 - 4 min read
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How LLMs are secretly reshaping the code of tomorrow, and what to do about it

The next revolutionary programming framework might be dead before you even discover it. AI coding assistants are reshaping software development practices in some unexpected ways.

Jan 6, 2025 - 10 min read
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From logic gates to language models

Recently I was watching my toddler son play with a copy of “Computer Engineering for Babies”. This interactive book has two buttons and a light bulb.

Jan 2, 2025 - 7 min read
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A new direction for my career

For the past seven years I’ve been working with builders who want to deploy containers on AWS. You may know me from personal assistance I’ve given you in direct messages, from reading my social media posts and blog posts about Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, or from using my reference architecture patterns on Containers on AWS.

Mar 28, 2024 - 5 min read
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The website is down. The cloud is up.

It has been well over a decade since I embarked on my journey with the cloud. I spent the first five years of my career as a customer of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Mar 25, 2024 - 6 min read
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Rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure complexity, and the current state of infrastructure as code. This is problem space that many talented people are tackling.

Jul 20, 2023 - 18 min read
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What I've learned from 6 years as a developer advocate

I’m about to reach six years as a developer advocate at Amazon Web Services. Two years ago I shared a retrospective look at my first four years as a developer advocate and many people have told me that article was helpful for them.

Dec 21, 2022 - 16 min read