There are a lot of guys like me out in the world. Mediocre engineers that over engineer products before they’ve validated the market place. I was talking with a friend earlier today, about ways to test out ideas before dropping 40 hours of dev time into it. It got me…

A while back I made a chrome extension that changes mentions of ‘Trump’ in to the 💩 emoji. It’s kind of fun. and it is called DumpTrump It gives you gems like: and:

I’ve lived the majority of my adult life in apartments, houses, and warehouses; places that have a colorful history. Sometimes that color is unintentional and a bit dark. Stains. I have lived almost exclusively in stained homes. Back in Third Ward, Houston I lived in a house. …

Have you ever encountered the sponge? I asked men and women of my generation, if they’ve ever used, or for that matter heard about the birth-control device known as the sponge being used. And? They only know about it because of Seinfeld. Outside of The Show About Nothing I think that it was maybe a footnote…

I recently read an article called How to Wake up at 5AM and Build Your Startup by Patrick Park. It was chockfull of good reasons and ways that a person to get up and go early. Waking at normal human hours has been the bane of my existence since I…

originally published here You’re a little kid, you are at the mall with your mom. You like the mall, you might get a toy or an Orange Julius out of this. You used to hold your mom’s hand everywhere you went, but you are a big kid now, and only…

This is now a podcast! Take a listen to Codecaine: Scummy Tech for Techie Scum Bottom Line, an adventure in creative fundraising “no trust me man, I saw this in a movie,” Carlos said as he took the five grand that we had raised between the two of us and split into to two stacks, and passed…