the death of mediocre
You and I are
They knew way back in seventy-two, in big block letters on the overhead projector:
i swear, i have to find a better hobby than writing about ai every once in a while.
We had that at our fingerprints and we never knew about it
A real short story about the use of AI tools at work.
when you put your life in the hands of black mold
I am deeply concerned.
Chapter 3
A presentation for SJSU's Teaching with AI Faculty Showcase, Spring 2026
Photographers, we need to talk...
Fotógrafos necesitamos ablar...
and maybe i should reconsider my line of work
I know for sure that I am not the only one who feels it, but there is something profoundly sickly about creating and putting things online these days, compared to how it was (think pre 2010). The irony of this reflection post, or rant if you will, is not lost on me.
Drawing Parallels between the Arts and Crafts movement and modern day AI
Brief write up on how I use AI at the moment.
I remember when Oregon Venture Fund first published this framework. Because it provided transparent guidance on what they used to assess startups.
I’ve been nudging folks to see if anyone had any details about who was selected for the new Oregon AI Accelerator. And all of that nudging finally paid off. Curious — like I was — about who they selected…? Here’s the list of the 20 companies they picked.
One gripe I often hear about Portland folks is that we don’t tend to think big enough. It comes from a good place. Recognizing that we’ve got a ton of creativity, talent, and potential. We just don’t always have the risk tolerance. But that may be changing if AJ Green of the AI Collective has anything to say about it.
Introducing tech writing for people who find contemporary technology stressful
judgement day approaches
I’ve been talking about the hardware renaissance that’s beginning to take shape around here. You see, as AI computing resources become more and more scarce, I hypothesize that we’re going to see people working to advance the technology to make things more efficient and effective. And a local startup helmed by Intel alums is definitely running that playbook. AheadComputing just raised $30 million bringing it to $53 million raised in total.
Just yesterday OSS community (me included) found a new topic to reflect on.
The context graph debate is important, but it’s just the beginning. The real revolution comes when agents can not only access past decisions, but truly learn from them — building causal models, explaining their reasoning, and reflecting on their own performance. That’s when we’ll move from decision traces to genuine artificial intelligence.
Property graphs have become the dominant paradigm for modeling connected data, yet they lack the formal semantic rigor that RDF/OWL brought to knowledge representation. While RDF graphs are constrained by their triple-based structure, property graphs offer richer modeling capabilities through typed edges with properties. However, this expressiveness comes at a cost: the absence of standardized formal semantics and constraint languages that can reason about graph structure and properties simultaneously.