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Florida summers slow the sailing calendar. That is when the NUC gets overtime—and lately it has been earning its keep.

In April I sailed my sailboat solo down to Dry Tortugas and back. Going solo was never my goal—but that's how it worked out.

Years on Windows IoT taught me that the interesting work often happens inches from the sensor—not three regions away in someone else's data center.

Enterprise AI ethics slides look tidy. Teaching programming while Cursor can finish the lab in ninety seconds is where the questions get personal.

Living in Florida has taught me something about electronics: the environment is not your friend.

After spending most of my adult life thinking about software, I have accumulated a fairly comfortable mental model for what computation looks like.

On the Missouri farm and Quad-E ground, predator talk only earns a seat after habitat, nutrition, and honest fawn recruitment data have spoken first.

One of the things I find most fascinating about being a computer scientist is how accessible the ingredients for building things have become.

If I map the path from a TRS-80 in high school to a classroom in Florida, it does not look like a straight line. It looks like passion, hard work, a few dream jobs—and more than once, watching someone else get the chair.

I'm coming off a couple of years on Microsoft's Windows IoT team, and I just bought a sailboat. Winter at the dock is a fine time to daydream about sensors.