What are AI Agents?
March 05, 2025
Unlike AI chatbots, an AI agent can take actions, like placing an order or booking a reservation. Learn more about what AI agents are and how they work.
You can find more of my recent writing on the Twilio blog.
Hello Finatra - An Introduction to Giter8 Templates
July 17, 2018
Giter8 templates are an amazing tool for spinning up new Scala projects quickly. I recently created a template for a lightweight Finatra API…
Why You Should Give That Conference Talk
October 12, 2017
Last week I encouraged a friend to give a conference talk about some tooling he had built, but was met with mild protest. “I feel like…
The Free Monad and its Cost
July 14, 2016
This is the follow up post in to my explanation of for Scala developers. Read part one here. Code examples can be found here: https…
Monads are just WTF in the category of huh?
April 02, 2016
Scala developers love to discuss Monads, their metaphors, and their many use cases. Parts of functional programming (FP) may be built on the…
Practical Computing
March 31, 2016
There was a gem of “practical computing” advice nested in the comments of a Fred Wilson blog post today. I’m including this here for ease of…
Create Your Scala Project Today
March 19, 2016
I created a base Scala application repository so that I didn’t have to do it every time I started a new project. Maybe you’ll find it useful…
Automate Everything
January 30, 2016
It’s pretty easy to host a static site on Amazon, all you have to do is copy files to an S3 bucket, update a couple of properties on the…
Hello, Jekyll
January 29, 2016
Migrating this site from ~5 static pages to a static site generator took some time, but it will provide enough convenience for updating that…
Hello, Blog
January 25, 2016
In my programming career so far, I’ve spent most of my time lurking behind the scenes - working with data, APIs, and infrastructure. Very…