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I Made An AI Coding Template (Sort Of)
So, you might remember that post I wrote about my “vibe coding” experiment a while back. It was a fun, but also a bit of a messy, adventure. The AI was great at churning out code for small tasks, but it kind of fell apart when it came to the...
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The End of an Era: Atlassian (Finally) Sunsets Jira Data Center
It finally happened. Last week Atlassian officially announced the end of life for Jira Data Center. We all knew this was coming, despite Atlassian repeatedly saying that it wouldn’t.
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I Tried Using AI to Make Me an AI App
Well, it’s been a while since my last post. I bought a trailer, spent some time fixing it up, took it out in the woods, and now I am up in Alaska visiting family. Just spent a long weekend hiking around Denali National Park. But I’ve also been working on...
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I Watched All of Atlassian Team 25 So You Don't Have to (Part 2)
Following up on Part 1 (which covered the three keynotes), here are my stream-of-consciousness bullet points for the Super Sessions. Like before, very little has been done to clean them up or format them.
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Is ChatGPT the Perfect Study Buddy?
The Good And The Bad Of Online Learning
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I Watched All of Atlassian Team 25 So You Don't Have to (Part 1)
I realize I’m a little late to the party with this. I did watch the keynotes live, but didn’t have a chance to go back and watch everything else until this week. Being unemployed is surprisingly time-consuming.
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Not Prepared
Yesterday, the Pittsburgh area was hit by a particularly nasty storm. Trees blew over, roofs were ripped off of buildings, thunder…thundered. And then the power went out. I’ve always liked to think that I’m a resourceful guy. That I’d do fine in a hypothetical zombie apocalypse: cooking over a campfire,...
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What's Next
Well, it feels like the end of an era. After 5½ incredible years at Aurora, it’s time for the next adventure. I joined when Aurora was just a two-year-old startup, about 500 people working out of a much smaller office, and now they have almost 2000 incredibly talented employees and...
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Atlassian’s FedRAMP Certification: What’s the Big Deal?
Atlassian’s announcement in early 2025 that its Government Cloud achieved FedRAMP Moderate certification is a major milestone. The certification means that Jira Software, Confluence, and Jira Service Management can now be used by U.S. federal agencies and contractors in a secure, compliant cloud environment.
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A Mental Health Chatbot for High School Students
I know my last post about AI was a bit of a bummer, but it’s not like I think it’s all bad. I was reading TechCrunch and came across a story about a startup called Sonar Mental Health that’s built an AI chatbot named Sonny to help students with mental...
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You Should Be Using An RSS Reader
Is your internet browsing experience… unpleasant? Ads? Clickbait? Constantly trying to find the quality content amongst all the low-effort garbage? Important stuff getting buried by The Algorithm? Spending hours checking all your different bookmarks? What if I told you there was a tool from the ’90s that could solve (almost)...
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It's Never Too Late
Hey there true believers. Today, I wanted to take a moment to talk about something that’s always been very important to me and something I’ve always struggled with - self improvement. Self-improvement has always mattered to me, maybe too much. I’ve spent years chasing it while wrestling with untreated ADHD,...
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Am I the Only One Who Watched Terminator?
AI is getting the nukes now. Cool, cool, cool. And Google has quietly deleted a key section from its AI Principles, the pledge against developing AI for weapons or surveillance tech.
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Have Yinz Been Following the DeepSeek News?
So, basically out of nowhere, a relatively unknown Chinese AI company called DeepSeek showed up and shook things up in a way we haven’t seen since ChatGPT first went viral. Something something may you live in interesting times?
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Atlassian’s Big Year: 2024 Highlights and Announcements
So, Atlassian had quite a year, with plenty of high-profile announcements, everything from the unveiling of Rovo, a potentially very powerful AI assistant to a big-ticket partnership with Williams Racing, something that seemed to come completely out of left field (at least to someone who doesn’t know anything about Formula...
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Hello World
What an original title for the first post of a tech…ish blog, huh?
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