Writing
Notes from the
unglamorous end.
I build for industries that technology mostly ignores: law enforcement, disability safety, union benefits, competitive shooting. These are the things I keep learning there, written down.
- Law enforcement
- Shooting sports
- Healthcare & benefits
- AI infrastructure
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What the Blue Envelope Got Right
The people who created the Blue Envelope program solved the hard part. Everything I built afterwards is downstream of an idea they got right first.
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Offline-First Isn't a Feature, It's the Whole Architecture
Match day happens in a gravel pit in a valley with no bars. The scores still have to be right, and the shooter is standing there waiting to sign.
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Why Union Benefits Still Run on Software From the 1990s
Third-party administrators manage health, pension, and annuity funds for millions of union members. Many still key remittances in by hand. The reason is not technical.
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AI Had a Memory Problem, So I Built a Database For It
Vector search retrieves what is similar. It has no idea what is important. Those are different questions, and only one of them is the one you actually asked.
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