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betting on orbit

i published a multipart post on threads earlier today and thought it would make for a good entry on the blog, given its length and what i believe to be something worth being able to point at later. i am taking liberties with my articulation here as i am no

to build is easy; to discern, divine

before november of last year, my usage of coding agents was minimal and quite utilitarian. my day to day work didn’t involve me actively writing code and that had been the case for about 3-ish years. there was the occasional need to roll up my sleeves to update niche

2025 roundup

The last time I felt compelled to publish a reflection on my year was in 2015 here. It was a story of misplaced trust, financial ruin, a career that had bottomed out, and the work of learning to trust myself again. It also signaled the beginning of a new chapter

Terminated

Over the past few days, my name and reputation, built over years as co-founder and technical leader at Paystack, have been called into question because of information circulating online. In response, the Board of Directors of Paystack placed me on suspension and initiated what was described as an “independent” investigation.

muscle memory

i spent time in early 2024 with someone who frequently took notes on their phone using voice dictation. it was quite a thing to observe, as i’d always thought speech to text was shit. the inability to detect nuances in language, the frequent errors in or outright absence of

travel the world. take pictures.

tj holowaychuk is someone i will like to meet one day. when i discovered him in 2013/4, he was active in the nodejs community and was the creator of the express framework, the koa framework, and a host of javascript modules in use by tons of software developers today.