Short, practical pieces on continuous improvement, CTO leadership, due diligence, and the craft of building teams and systems.
I bought a cheap BLE adapter to read one warning light on a 2001 Ford Expedition, and ended up open sourcing obdscope: a Python tool, a web dashboard, a vehicle simulator, and a fuel-trim pattern that Ford had published a test for twenty years earlier.
Four days alone in a boat on Lake of the Woods: camping on unnamed islands, a 2 AM clothesline mooring, a run into Kenora for fuel and Coke Zeros, and a hand-cranked crossing at Turtle Portage.
Arness came out of a session at CITCON:AI in Helsinki. After a few days using it across several projects, I ran low on Claude Code tokens, so I extended it to run under Codex as well. Here is what that took.
From Ant and Maven to AI personas and inclusion: how CITCON has continuously reinvented itself for twenty years.
How long should a build take? If you finish your coffee before CI gives feedback, the loop is too long.