When my daughter Madison's Junior Current soccer team needed a website, I saw a perfect opportunity for a fun father-daughter coding project. With the help of Kiro, AWS's agentic IDE, what could have been a lengthy development process became an enjoyable weekend activity.
Managing three kids' schedules across GameChanger, TeamSnap, school calendars, and volunteer commitments was driving me crazy. So I built a unified family calendar system that aggregates everything—and made it public so the grandparents can finally keep up.
I built a hands-on workshop teaching engineers to connect their entire tool chain—Jira, Confluence, AWS, Bitbucket—to AI assistants like Amazon Q and Kiro using the Model Context Protocol. Here's what I learned about breaking down silos and the challenge of maintaining consistent MCP configurations.
I've been using AI heavily at work for a while now. As part of engineering, it's woven into our day to day — accelerating development, automating processes, and helping us think differently about how software gets built...
Sometimes the most meaningful challenges come from the most personal places. When my friend's daughter Lexie was diagnosed with cancer, I couldn't help but think about what that would mean for my own daughter and family. That's when I decided to run 100 miles...
Here are my favorite 21 podcasts from 2021, covering everything from business strategy and technology to leadership and personal development. Each one offers unique insights that influenced my thinking throughout the year...