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This is a tech blog I've kept over the last decade. The pace of new articles has slowed considerably, but I want to keep them up for posterity.

Recent Articles

• "We\'ve been vibe coding since the stone age": Do we still need humans in the loop? — 2026-01-08
• Docker Sandbox: Running LLM coding agents in a clean, secure local environment — 2026-01-06
• My Thoughts About Fly.io (So Far) and Other New-ish Technology I'm Getting Into — 2022-05-17
• Web Scraping Boilerplate: Everything You Need to Start Your New Python Scraping Project (Batteries Included) — 2019-02-14
• Web Scraping with Proxies: The Complete Guide to Scaling Your Web Scraper — 2018-09-03
• How to Avoid Bad Clients: 12 Red Flags I Look for to Dodge Nightmare Projects — 2018-05-11
• Startup Security Guide: Minimum Viable Security Checklist for a Cloud-Based Web Application — 2018-03-27
• 3 Years of Consulting: Settling into An Unexpected Career — 2018-01-17
• USB Rubber Ducky Tutorial: The Missing Quickstart Guide to Running Your First Keystroke Payload Hack — 2017-08-29
• Building Facebook Messenger Bots That Don't Suck: 9 Anti-Patterns and Best Practices — 2017-03-08
• Second Edition of "The Ultimate Guide to Web Scraping" is Now Available — 2017-02-19
• Web Scraping Reference: A Simple Cheat Sheet for Web Scraping with Python — 2017-02-03
• 10 Debugging Tips for Beginners: How to Troubleshoot and Fix Your Code Without Pulling Your Hair Out — 2016-11-21
• How to Scrape Amazon.com: 19 Lessons I Learned While Crawling 1MM+ Product Listings — 2016-08-03
• Facebook Messenger Bot Tutorial: Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Basic Facebook Chat Bot — 2016-06-15
• 7 Reasons I Won't Sign Your NDA Before a Coffee Meeting — 2016-02-17
• The 3 Mistakes Every Junior Developer Makes (And How to Stop Making Them) — 2015-10-14
• Scaling Your Web App 101: Lessons in Architecture Under Load — 2015-09-08

Popular Articles

• [NEW]: "We've been vibe coding since the stone age": Do we still need humans in the loop?
• I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit
• Facebook Messenger Bot Tutorial: Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Basic Facebook Chat Bot
• Web Scraping Reference: A Simple Cheat Sheet for Web Scraping with Python
• Startup Security Guide: Minimum Viable Security Checklist for a Cloud-Based Web Application
• USB Rubber Ducky Tutorial: The Missing Quickstart Guide to Running Your First Keystroke Payload Hack
• How to Scrape Amazon.com: 19 Lessons I Learned While Crawling 1MM+ Product Listings
• Web Scraping with Proxies: The Complete Guide to Scaling Your Web Scraper
• Scaling Your Web App 101: Lessons in Architecture Under Load
• How HTTPS Secures Connections: What Every Web Dev Should Know
• Peeling Back the ORM: Demystifying Relational Databases For New Web Developers
• Lightning Fast Data Serialization in Python
• Minimum Viable Git Best Practices for Small Teams
• 7 Reasons I Won't Sign Your NDA Before a Coffee Meeting
• Focus on the Product, Not the Code: How I Build Software for Clients
• How I Learned to Code in Only 6 Years: And You Can Too!
• 10 Debugging Tips for Beginners: How to Troubleshoot and Fix Your Code Without Pulling Your Hair Out
• The 3 Mistakes Every Junior Developer Makes (And How to Stop Making Them)