Peter Dedene

Gemini 3: "I'm the biggest news today."
Cloudflare: "Hold my beer."

API design is hard because:

• Versioning is hard.
• Breaking changes hurt.
• Backwards compatibility limits.
• Documentation rots.

Get it right early.
Changing it later can be *very* expensive.

Context windows keep expanding.
Attention spans don't.

Tech nostalgia is realizing we'll never be as excited about technology as we were when we were young.

• Everything was new.
• Everything was possible.
• Everything was magical.

We can't get that feeling back.
But we can remember.

Everyone trying to squeeze in one last update before google takes over the timeline.

Proxmox running Kubernetes for the homelab is my kind of overkill.

Building software is easy.
Building a business that sells software is the entire game.

Client projects teach breadth.
Personal projects teach depth.

You need both to grow.

Balance learning with earning.

AI makes mistakes confidently. So do we.

The difference is we double-check.
Sometimes.

AI can summarize meetings.
The real win is *not* having meetings.

When your cybersecurity budget is $5 and a hammer.

The best engineers are lazy in smart ways.

Your network is built one reply at a time.

T9 texting on flip phones.

Press 4 twice for H.
Press 3 twice for E.
Press 9 three times for Y.
Repeat 47 times to write "hey what's up"

We were basically learning morse code.

Meetings kill momentum.

Protect your maker time like it pays your salary.
Because it does.

I never met a person using GitHub Desktop in 2025.

Your competition ships weekly.
You ship when it's perfect.

Guess who wins?

Been thinking... is my AI co-pilot a "pair programmer," or am I just its code review monkey?

True solopreneurs don't scale.

They automate, outsource, or burn out.
There is no fourth option.

Every outage teaches you more than a year of smooth sailing.

Left: anxious woman amid beach wreckage and small fires; Right: relaxed woman sunbathing on towel on the same debris-strewn shore.

The two states of software development.

The best CEOs are former engineers who learned to talk to humans.

Learning in public feels vulnerable.
Being invisible feels safe but gets you nowhere.

A test suite that takes 20 minutes to run, never gets run.

Shipping fast is a muscle. Train it by shipping small things often.

Scope creep is just poor boundary setting with yourself.

Founder life: celebrating a $50 MRR increase like you won the lottery.

GitHub stars don't pay bills.
Solve that problem first.

Plug and Play usually meant Plug and Pray.

• "Windows has detected new hardware."
• "Installing drivers..."
• "Installation failed."

Repeat 10 times. Give up.

Now we do the same with prompts.

Users don't read. Design accordingly.