Writing

Most of the things I’ve written around the web. Items marked with a source go to another site.

• June 14, 2026compellingsciencefiction.com

  Building a Tower Defense Game on a Conference Badge

• May 19, 2026pangram.com

  The Information Theory Behind Why AI Writing Sucks

• May 10, 2026compellingsciencefiction.com

  What's in the 2026 Hugo Awards Voter Packet?

• May 7, 2026compellingsciencefiction.com

  Super Mega SFF Story Ideator

• March 3, 2026learn.arm.com

  Migrate and optimize a .NET nopCommerce application on Microsoft Azure

• February 13, 2026compellingsciencefiction.com

  Favorites from 2025

• January 31, 2026compellingsciencefiction.com

  The 'bullion prerogative' for science fiction authors

• January 3, 2026compellingsciencefiction.com

  Intelligence Is a Landscape, Not a Ladder

• December 31, 2025learn.arm.com

  Codex CLI on Arm

• December 20, 2025dev.to

  Automated Cloud Migrations with Kiro and the Arm MCP Server

• December 18, 2025learn.arm.com

  Automate x86-to-Arm application migration using Arm MCP Server

• November 18, 2025compellingsciencefiction.com

  The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology

• November 8, 2025compellingsciencefiction.com

  How I curate an anthology

• August 2, 2025compellingsciencefiction.com

  Ranking the 2025 Hugo Best Novel nominees

• July 18, 2025learn.arm.com

  Run distributed inference with llama.cpp on Arm-based AWS Graviton4 instances

• June 10, 2025learn.arm.com

  Deploy a Cobalt 100 Virtual Machine on Azure

• June 4, 2025learn.arm.com

  Migrate a .NET application to Azure Cobalt 100

• January 23, 2025dev.to

  Dyson Swarm: How I built a hard science fiction game with AWS services

• January 9, 2025learn.arm.com

  Run LLM inference on Android with KleidiAI, MediaPipe, and XNNPACK

• October 21, 2024compellingsciencefiction.com

  Dyson Swarm progress report (contains spoilers)

• October 13, 2024compellingsciencefiction.com

  I'm making six narrative-driven hard science fiction games in six months

• September 29, 2024dev.to

  Vendor lock-in when using AWS Graviton processors is no longer a real thing

• July 5, 2024learn.arm.com

  Run Java applications on Google Axion processors

• June 21, 2024compellingsciencefiction.com

  Ranking the 2024 Hugo Best Novel nominees

• October 17, 2023compellingsciencefiction.com

  Novel Review: Foundry by Eliot Peper

• August 5, 2023compellingsciencefiction.com

  My rankings of the 2023 Hugo Best Novel nominees

• February 19, 2023dev.to

  A serverless Python app to send public domain Gutenberg ebooks to your Kindle

• February 14, 2023dev.to

  Commit to your team's development conventions or get out

• January 29, 2023compellingsciencefiction.com

  Top science fiction short stories published in December

• January 21, 2023compellingsciencefiction.com

  Continuity of Self

• January 6, 2023compellingsciencefiction.com

  Science fiction stories in their historical context

• December 28, 2022dev.to

  Go fast and reduce risk: using CDK to deploy your serverless applications on AWS

• December 20, 2022dev.to

  'Twas the Night Before Christmas: Cloud Edition

• December 17, 2022compellingsciencefiction.com

  Top science fiction short stories published in October

• December 15, 2022dev.to

  Adding an existing custom Lambda Authorizer to API Gateway with CDK and Python

• December 9, 2022dev.to

  Solving problems with API Gateway and the Python CDK

• December 8, 2022dev.to

  How I built my ideal daily Python newsletter with AWS and Python

• December 5, 2022dev.to

  Notes from AWS re:Invent 2022: the Giant Magellan Telescope

• December 3, 2022dev.to

  Notes from re:Invent 2022: a serverless/devops recap

• November 23, 2022compellingsciencefiction.com

  Top science fiction short stories published in September

• November 23, 2022dev.to

  How to make a Docker build image for the Python flavor of AWS CDK

• October 10, 2022compellingsciencefiction.com

  Top science fiction short stories published in August

• September 6, 2022compellingsciencefiction.com

  A new award, short story reviews for July 2022, and a survey

• August 1, 2022compellingsciencefiction.com

  I read and ranked all the Hugo Best Novel nominees for 2022

• February 24, 2022compellingsciencefiction.com

  Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

• February 16, 2022compellingsciencefiction.com

  Review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

• August 25, 2021rewind.com

  The Biggest Git Security Issues to Watch Out For

• May 4, 2021compellingsciencefiction.com

  Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• February 3, 2021fusionauth.io

  Outsourcing auth: how to get buy-in from your team

• January 20, 2021fusionauth.io

  Why outsourcing OAuth enhances security and efficiency

• December 29, 2020compellingsciencefiction.com

  Review: The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• May 9, 20193 min read

  Stretching to the Scale of the Universe

• September 28, 2018compellingsciencefiction.com

  Review: Bandwidth by Eliot Peper

• September 21, 2018compellingsciencefiction.com

  Review: The Sky Woman by J.D. Moyer

• February 14, 20185 min read

  What happens to animals in the vacuum of space?

• July 12, 2017compellingsciencefiction.com

  Review: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow