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  • Deploying a Minecraft Server to EC2 (with some cost analysis)

    Setting up and deploying a Minecraft server on EC2 (including cost analysis)

    August 18, 2020
  • The End of the AI Gold Rush: Why Your Next Raise Might Come From an Unexpected Source

    Over the years, I’ve lived through multiple waves of “revolutionary” technology: 4GL programming languages, “visual” programming languages, “agile” methodologies, SOA, various web frameworks, cloud computing, serverless, containerization, k8s, no code, and now “AI” coding. The Ruby ecosystem has had its share of “revolutionary” entrants, with Ruby on Rails and Chef being two that I’ve directly…

    August 13, 2025
  • The End of Free LLMs: Pricing Reality and Market Impact on Software Engineering

    This is speculation and transcript via Claude Sonnet 4 starting with “once the ‘free’ or loss leader phase of the LLM wave has ended, what is the likely pricing for a single user assuming the same allocation levels” For more of blog post style, see The End of the AI Gold Rush: Why Your Next…

    August 13, 2025
  • Thanks, Claude, but Ruby is not Rails

    Signs of Rails creep in the code I spent some of today debugging an error that suddenly started appearing in CI runs for unit tests: Having prior experiences with code that was written for a Ruby only project but happened to rely on a Rails dependency, I pretty quickly knew why it was breaking: NilClass#present?…

    July 14, 2025
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