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My Blog

Reflections on technology, writing, personal growth, life's existential challenges, and navigating the complexities of our modern world.

Published: August 22, 2025

πŸš€ From Oil Rigs to Award Nominations: Making Complex Things Clear

The utterly non-linear journey of a person who somehow went from documenting oil drilling APIs to being nominated for Adobe awards. Featuring: questionable career choices, accidental expertise, and why good documentation is basically magic.

Published: August 19, 2025

πŸš€ Why Documentation Is So Hard (And What 30 Years of Failures Taught Me)

After three decades of writing documentation that ranged from terrible to occasionally helpful, I've learned something: we're all fighting the same battles against time, scope, and complexity. Here's what those struggles taught me about making docs that actually work.

Published: August 15, 2025

πŸš€ Why Astro Changed Everything (And Why Your Site is Probably Too Slow)

The brutally honest story of how I went from framework-hopping chaos to building lightning-fast sites that actually make visitors happy. Spoiler: it involves zero JavaScript by default and a lot less suffering.