MCP Isn’t the Future of Software Engineering
Everyone seems excited about MCP. For good reason. It’s an elegant idea. A standard way for AI to discover and interact with software. If every application exposed an […]
The Journal
Thoughts on software, music, AI, bootstrapping, trust, craft and making things without turning the whole operation into a funnel.
The End of Software
That’s a ridiculous title. Software isn’t ending. In fact, I think we’ll write more software over the next decade than at any point in history. So why call […]
I Didn’t Want to Build Another Application
If you’d asked me when I started Vork what it was going to become, I’d probably have described it as an AI project. Today, I don’t think that’s […]
Is It Still Possible to Bootstrap a Software Company in 2026?
Six months ago I’d have told you bootstrapping was dead. Not struggling. Not harder. Dead. Modern software is expensive to build. Not because of the code. The code […]
The Engineer in the Lakers Hat
For most of my life I thought I wanted to be famous. Not rich. Not successful. Famous. I was seventeen years old. Obsessed with music. Obsessed with being […]
Music for the Soul. Code for the Bowl.
For years I told myself software replaced music. It’s a neat story. It just isn’t true. Back in the mid-90s I was playing in a band. We were […]