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Clint Byrum

Clint Byrum

The Sociotechnical Reality Engineer

Titles are weird. In my not so brief time (just shy of 30 years now) in the software business, I’ve held these titles:

May 21

The Sociotechnical Reality Engineer

May 21

Clint Byrum

Ron Burgundy: Unlikely Hero of Blameless Culture

Ron Burgundy is not a role model for workplace behavior. In fact, if we were making workplace behavior training videos, he wouldn’t even be…

Apr 12

Ron Burgundy: Unlikely Hero of Blameless Culture

Apr 12

Clint Byrum

System Diagrams are Performance Caches for Cognitive Load

As is common in my line of work as a Staff Engineer, today I found myself discussing a complex scaling problem in a complex sub-system of a…

Apr 11

System Diagrams are Performance Caches for Cognitive Load

Apr 11

Clint Byrum

Water and code: two things that burst pipes when they freeze

It’s about that time of year again. Engineers with families have had blocks of time off through December on their calendars for months by…

Oct 28, 2023

Water and code: two things that burst pipes when they freeze

Oct 28, 2023

Clint Byrum

The Top of The Stairs

She told herself out loud as she gripped the steering wheel “This will be good for you, Kayla.” Slow down, that sign said 20, you are going…

Nov 7, 2022

The Top of The Stairs

Nov 7, 2022

Clint Byrum

Copy, right?

If the universe is a living thing, are humans just reality’s sulky teenage phase?

Mar 22, 2022

Copy, right?

Mar 22, 2022

Clint Byrum

A middle-aged pseudo athlete’s hot new solution for muscle pain

Being a moderately physically active forty-something is an adventure unto itself.

Feb 13, 2022

A middle-aged pseudo athlete’s hot new solution for muscle pain

Feb 13, 2022

Clint Byrum

What if we all had robots to work through our conflicts?

Very few of us relish individual conflict, but we all like getting what we want. It’s not hard to imagine delegating conflict to machines.

Jan 22, 2022

What if we all had robots to work through our conflicts?

Jan 22, 2022

Clint Byrum

What makes a senior engineer: Answers, or Questions?

I’ve been a senior engineer and occasionally engineering manager for a while now. I still don’t think I can tell for sure when somebody is…

Dec 4, 2021

What makes a senior engineer: Answers, or Questions?

Dec 4, 2021

Clint Byrum

Quanticoin puts USA on top of Crypto race for good

If you’d have told me back in 2021, when Bitcoin was only at $65k, that Bitcoin’s runaway value would be drained back into the US Dollar’s…

Nov 17, 2021

Quanticoin puts USA on top of Crypto race for good

Nov 17, 2021

Clint Byrum

Clint Byrum

I’ve been getting paid to play with computers for 25+ years. Now I read code and design distributed systems when I’m not swinging the word hammer.

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