The traditional image of a tech leader often involves someone who’s “graduated” from coding—someone who’s moved beyond the keyboard to focus purely on strategy, meetings, and high-level decision making. But in 2025, this approach isn’t just outdated; it’s counterproductive.

The traditional image of a tech leader often involves someone who’s “graduated” from coding—someone who’s moved beyond the keyboard to focus purely on strategy, meetings, and high-level decision making. But in 2025, this approach isn’t just outdated; it’s counterproductive.

The traditional image of a tech leader often involves someone who’s “graduated” from coding—someone who’s moved beyond the keyboard to focus purely on strategy, meetings, and high-level decision making. But in 2025, this approach isn’t just outdated; it’s counterproductive.

Getting consensus on design decisions is one of the most challenging aspects of any technical or creative project. Too often, teams find themselves caught between two extremes: the chaotic free-for-all of design by committee, or the risky isolation of the lone wolf making decisions in a vacuum. But there’s a third way—one that comes from Japanese business philosophy and can revolutionize how we approach collaborative work.

Getting consensus on design decisions is one of the most challenging aspects of any technical or creative project. Too often, teams find themselves caught between two extremes: the chaotic free-for-all of design by committee, or the risky isolation of the lone wolf making decisions in a vacuum. But there’s a third way—one that comes from Japanese business philosophy and can revolutionize how we approach collaborative work.

Getting consensus on design decisions is one of the most challenging aspects of any technical or creative project. Too often, teams find themselves caught between two extremes: the chaotic free-for-all of design by committee, or the risky isolation of the lone wolf making decisions in a vacuum. But there’s a third way—one that comes from Japanese business philosophy and can revolutionize how we approach collaborative work.

Getting consensus on design decisions is one of the most challenging aspects of any technical or creative project. Too often, teams find themselves caught between two extremes: the chaotic free-for-all of design by committee, or the risky isolation of the lone wolf making decisions in a vacuum. But there’s a third way—one that comes from Japanese business philosophy and can revolutionize how we approach collaborative work.

The website you are reading was generated using Hugo. I recently upgraded the version of Hugo up quite a few releases.

Overall everything went smooth, but something I didn’t catch till the next day was all my audio embeds stopped working. The embedded html5 audio tag in the post or page was being ommited. It was getting rendered as an html comment, “raw HTML omitted.”

The website you are reading was generated using Hugo. I recently upgraded the version of Hugo up quite a few releases.

Overall everything went smooth, but something I didn’t catch till the next day was all my audio embeds stopped working. The embedded html5 audio tag in the post or page was being ommited. It was getting rendered as an html comment, “raw HTML omitted.”

I heard good things about Amazon Polly and wanted to take a peek and judge for myself. It’s very easy to use. The example below were done with the AWS CLI.

In case you’re not familiar, Polly is a text to speech service created by Amazon for AWS. Learn more at https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

I heard good things about Amazon Polly and wanted to take a peek and judge for myself. It’s very easy to use. The example below were done with the AWS CLI.

In case you’re not familiar, Polly is a text to speech service created by Amazon for AWS. Learn more at https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

I heard good things about Amazon Polly and wanted to take a peek and judge for myself. It’s very easy to use. The example below were done with the AWS CLI.

In case you’re not familiar, Polly is a text to speech service created by Amazon for AWS. Learn more at https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

At work I selected GraphCMS to be our preferred headless CMS. It is already leveraged on multiple projects and has been working out well for us. The beauty of a good headless CMS is you can use in many scenarios. Case in point, of the 3 instances we have, 2 are web apps; only one is marketing site.

At work I selected GraphCMS to be our preferred headless CMS. It is already leveraged on multiple projects and has been working out well for us. The beauty of a good headless CMS is you can use in many scenarios. Case in point, of the 3 instances we have, 2 are web apps; only one is marketing site.

Cobra is a library and generation tool for creating command line interfaces. It simplifies the work needed to create a good CLI. It is written in Go and is used in quite a few well know open source projects. Docker, Kubernetes, Etcd and the GitHub CLI all use Cobra. Check out this link for a larger list of projects.

Golang is a hot topic among developers these days.  languages like Golang and node.js are getting a lot of attention.

For most folks switching programing languages is a big deal and it usually takes some production catastrophe or poorly aging codebase to motivate the switch.  It’s like when someone has that way too special night with tequila and decides “never again.”  For others they switch and/or experiment with other languages like they change their socks.

At work I selected GraphCMS to be our preferred headless CMS. It is already leveraged on multiple projects and has been working out well for us. The beauty of a good headless CMS is you can use in many scenarios. Case in point, of the 3 instances we have, 2 are web apps; only one is marketing site.

At work I selected GraphCMS to be our preferred headless CMS. It is already leveraged on multiple projects and has been working out well for us. The beauty of a good headless CMS is you can use in many scenarios. Case in point, of the 3 instances we have, 2 are web apps; only one is marketing site.

Cobra is a library and generation tool for creating command line interfaces. It simplifies the work needed to create a good CLI. It is written in Go and is used in quite a few well know open source projects. Docker, Kubernetes, Etcd and the GitHub CLI all use Cobra. Check out this link for a larger list of projects.

Golang is a hot topic among developers these days.  languages like Golang and node.js are getting a lot of attention.

For most folks switching programing languages is a big deal and it usually takes some production catastrophe or poorly aging codebase to motivate the switch.  It’s like when someone has that way too special night with tequila and decides “never again.”  For others they switch and/or experiment with other languages like they change their socks.

After a few years of developing Erdiko I have learned a few things about what it does well and what other frameworks do better.  The PHP language has also changed dramatically since I started Erdiko in 2012.   This has lead to a coming to jesus moment where it was clear it’s time for a new architecture.

A few months back I wrote about headless WordPress on the Arroyo Labs blog, http://blog.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/headless-wordpress-a-primer/

Since then I have made a bunch of improvements to the package on github.  Take a look and let me know what you think.  We’ll continue to make improvements to the code to make working with WordPress that much easier.  https://github.com/ArroyoLabs/erdiko-wordpress

Our lead developer at Arroyo Labs has put together a couple of posts to introduce developers to Angular 2 by comparing it to Angular 1.

Cobra is a library and generation tool for creating command line interfaces. It simplifies the work needed to create a good CLI. It is written in Go and is used in quite a few well know open source projects. Docker, Kubernetes, Etcd and the GitHub CLI all use Cobra. Check out this link for a larger list of projects.

Running your code in containers is a great way manage and deploy software. All of the code needed to run your app is inside one or more containers. You can move these containers from environment to enviornment by creating images and running these images in each environment (as containers).

Running your code in containers is a great way manage and deploy software. All of the code needed to run your app is inside one or more containers. You can move these containers from environment to enviornment by creating images and running these images in each environment (as containers).

Running your code in containers is a great way manage and deploy software. All of the code needed to run your app is inside one or more containers. You can move these containers from environment to enviornment by creating images and running these images in each environment (as containers).

I recently moderated a panel called Scaling your business with technology at Silicon Beach Fest.

I want to thank all the panelists for coming and giving the crowd their tech insights. We had a good discussion across a breadth of issues, from stacks, to clouds to testing and product iterations. I would also like to thank all the folks who came to watch the panel and ask questions.

I recently moderated a panel called Scaling your business with technology at Silicon Beach Fest.

I want to thank all the panelists for coming and giving the crowd their tech insights. We had a good discussion across a breadth of issues, from stacks, to clouds to testing and product iterations. I would also like to thank all the folks who came to watch the panel and ask questions.

I recently moderated a panel called Scaling your business with technology at Silicon Beach Fest.

I want to thank all the panelists for coming and giving the crowd their tech insights. We had a good discussion across a breadth of issues, from stacks, to clouds to testing and product iterations. I would also like to thank all the folks who came to watch the panel and ask questions.

After a few years of developing Erdiko I have learned a few things about what it does well and what other frameworks do better.  The PHP language has also changed dramatically since I started Erdiko in 2012.   This has lead to a coming to jesus moment where it was clear it’s time for a new architecture.

A few months back I wrote about headless WordPress on the Arroyo Labs blog, http://blog.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/headless-wordpress-a-primer/

Since then I have made a bunch of improvements to the package on github.  Take a look and let me know what you think.  We’ll continue to make improvements to the code to make working with WordPress that much easier.  https://github.com/ArroyoLabs/erdiko-wordpress

After a few years of developing Erdiko I have learned a few things about what it does well and what other frameworks do better.  The PHP language has also changed dramatically since I started Erdiko in 2012.   This has lead to a coming to jesus moment where it was clear it’s time for a new architecture.

A few months back I wrote about headless WordPress on the Arroyo Labs blog, http://blog.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/headless-wordpress-a-primer/

Since then I have made a bunch of improvements to the package on github.  Take a look and let me know what you think.  We’ll continue to make improvements to the code to make working with WordPress that much easier.  https://github.com/ArroyoLabs/erdiko-wordpress

After a few years of developing Erdiko I have learned a few things about what it does well and what other frameworks do better.  The PHP language has also changed dramatically since I started Erdiko in 2012.   This has lead to a coming to jesus moment where it was clear it’s time for a new architecture.

A few months back I wrote about headless WordPress on the Arroyo Labs blog, http://blog.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/headless-wordpress-a-primer/

Since then I have made a bunch of improvements to the package on github.  Take a look and let me know what you think.  We’ll continue to make improvements to the code to make working with WordPress that much easier.  https://github.com/ArroyoLabs/erdiko-wordpress

A few months back I wrote about headless WordPress on the Arroyo Labs blog, http://blog.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/headless-wordpress-a-primer/

Since then I have made a bunch of improvements to the package on github.  Take a look and let me know what you think.  We’ll continue to make improvements to the code to make working with WordPress that much easier.  https://github.com/ArroyoLabs/erdiko-wordpress

Our lead developer at Arroyo Labs has put together a couple of posts to introduce developers to Angular 2 by comparing it to Angular 1.

Our lead developer at Arroyo Labs has put together a couple of posts to introduce developers to Angular 2 by comparing it to Angular 1.

I am new to MongoDB but this book has been helpful in evaluating and learning about how to scale with it. At work we’ve been thinking about using it for some projects but it was important to investigate and review it in more detail before we jumped into it and added it to our stack. Overall, it’s a great book on Mongo scaling, succinct and complete. It doesn’t elaborate on every possible scaling topic, but it’s enough detail to make important architectural decisions. Mongo is a great new technology, and this book is a good companion. For more info on using mongo in general, check out “MongoDB: The Definitive Guide.”

Python is a great language for writing scripts that can be easily ran on servers or for writing web and desktop apps.  This book helps guide you through the syntax and coding style that make up a python app.  It’s definitely one of the more flexible and easy to use modern languages.

One more day left in the O’Reilly blogger review program.  This time I have been looking at The Art of Community by Jono Bacon.

Overall it’s a great book for a foundation in community building and growing social websites.  It’s filled with lots of good advice and common sense.  My main complaint is I wish there were more stories.  You can’t always expect the author to be authoritative on every topic, as a reader you want more anecdotes and support for why you should take the authors advice.  It may not be a good fit for seasoned community managers, but it’s a great volume for programmers, project managers and young community managers.  It’s well worth a read.

I am new to MongoDB but this book has been helpful in evaluating and learning about how to scale with it. At work we’ve been thinking about using it for some projects but it was important to investigate and review it in more detail before we jumped into it and added it to our stack. Overall, it’s a great book on Mongo scaling, succinct and complete. It doesn’t elaborate on every possible scaling topic, but it’s enough detail to make important architectural decisions. Mongo is a great new technology, and this book is a good companion. For more info on using mongo in general, check out “MongoDB: The Definitive Guide.”

Some great organic bitters.

Some great organic bitters.

Ok, I think I have seen everything now. There is a new cologne called Bacon, which of course smells like fried pork flesh. http://www.fargginay.com/shop-1.html

I was at Sephora the other day with my girlfriend and I didn’t find any on their shelves. They could be missing out on a goldmine 🙂

A tasty treat found by This is Why You’re Fat.  It’s cone made of bacon filled with scrambled eggs and gravy with a biscuit on top.  Yum, More bacon to put pounds on you.

What happens when you mix greasy bacon with a Russian AK-47, the BA-K-47.

This powerful beast can kill a man with clogged arteries in 10 minutes.  The whole story is here, http://www.thisisfreakingridiculous.com/tifr/2009/4/13/ba-k-47.html

The animated bacon man sings of the horrors of bacon. He just doesn’t know the beauty of the other white meat fried in it’s own grease.

This is quite possibly the most amazing bacon dish I have ever seen. This is the state of it before it cooked. You have to have to see the original post to get a sense of the bacon goodness. This post is a bit off topic, but this blog isn’t exactly focused 😉

Python is a great language for writing scripts that can be easily ran on servers or for writing web and desktop apps.  This book helps guide you through the syntax and coding style that make up a python app.  It’s definitely one of the more flexible and easy to use modern languages.

One more day left in the O’Reilly blogger review program.  This time I have been looking at The Art of Community by Jono Bacon.

Overall it’s a great book for a foundation in community building and growing social websites.  It’s filled with lots of good advice and common sense.  My main complaint is I wish there were more stories.  You can’t always expect the author to be authoritative on every topic, as a reader you want more anecdotes and support for why you should take the authors advice.  It may not be a good fit for seasoned community managers, but it’s a great volume for programmers, project managers and young community managers.  It’s well worth a read.

Remixin has just launched the Johnny Fiasco remix contest for the song “The Reflex.”  If you are a music producer, musician or DJ with some remix skills take a crack at the remix contest and win some dope prizes!

Remixin has just launched the Johnny Fiasco remix contest for the song “The Reflex.”  If you are a music producer, musician or DJ with some remix skills take a crack at the remix contest and win some dope prizes!

Remixin.com has launched a new music website. It’s a creative networking site for musicians, djs and composers to share their music and have other remix it. Each remix uploaded to site can also be remixed. Each song uploaded to the website spawns a Remix Tree that is generated as members evolve the music through interative remixing.

What happens when you mix greasy bacon with a Russian AK-47, the BA-K-47.

This powerful beast can kill a man with clogged arteries in 10 minutes.  The whole story is here, http://www.thisisfreakingridiculous.com/tifr/2009/4/13/ba-k-47.html

The animated bacon man sings of the horrors of bacon. He just doesn’t know the beauty of the other white meat fried in it’s own grease.

This is quite possibly the most amazing bacon dish I have ever seen. This is the state of it before it cooked. You have to have to see the original post to get a sense of the bacon goodness. This post is a bit off topic, but this blog isn’t exactly focused 😉

This came out in a Japan last year, but I just ran across it this week. It’s called the Luminodot by Bandai. It’s like an HD lightbright.  It has twice the resolution and much brighter than the original.  I wonder when kids in the US will get to play with this pixelated beast.

This came out in a Japan last year, but I just ran across it this week. It’s called the Luminodot by Bandai. It’s like an HD lightbright.  It has twice the resolution and much brighter than the original.  I wonder when kids in the US will get to play with this pixelated beast.

This came out in a Japan last year, but I just ran across it this week. It’s called the Luminodot by Bandai. It’s like an HD lightbright.  It has twice the resolution and much brighter than the original.  I wonder when kids in the US will get to play with this pixelated beast.

The Nine Inch Nails / Janes Addiction tour has put some free mp3s and even wav files up for DRM free download. There are a couple of tracks by the Street Sweepers as well. I don’t know there music, but their tracks on the site are pretty cool.

The Nine Inch Nails / Janes Addiction tour has put some free mp3s and even wav files up for DRM free download. There are a couple of tracks by the Street Sweepers as well. I don’t know there music, but their tracks on the site are pretty cool.

The Nine Inch Nails / Janes Addiction tour has put some free mp3s and even wav files up for DRM free download. There are a couple of tracks by the Street Sweepers as well. I don’t know there music, but their tracks on the site are pretty cool.

This is the hot new thing for all you women who want to draw more attention to yourselves. A DIY project to make a musical bra. Your chest will sing!

This is the hot new thing for all you women who want to draw more attention to yourselves. A DIY project to make a musical bra. Your chest will sing!

This is the hot new thing for all you women who want to draw more attention to yourselves. A DIY project to make a musical bra. Your chest will sing!

Remixin.com has launched a new music website. It’s a creative networking site for musicians, djs and composers to share their music and have other remix it. Each remix uploaded to site can also be remixed. Each song uploaded to the website spawns a Remix Tree that is generated as members evolve the music through interative remixing.

Muzak filed for bankruptcy a couple of days ago. The company started in 1934 and filled elevators with, well, elevator music for 75 years. Now they are drowning in debt and going bankrupt. I can’t say they will be missed but it is sad to see them go in some wierd twisted way.

Muzak filed for bankruptcy a couple of days ago. The company started in 1934 and filled elevators with, well, elevator music for 75 years. Now they are drowning in debt and going bankrupt. I can’t say they will be missed but it is sad to see them go in some wierd twisted way.

Muzak filed for bankruptcy a couple of days ago. The company started in 1934 and filled elevators with, well, elevator music for 75 years. Now they are drowning in debt and going bankrupt. I can’t say they will be missed but it is sad to see them go in some wierd twisted way.

This Times article is great, some very clever ghetto representations of life in the city using Legos.

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/i-lego-ny/?em

Thanks for link Bedirhan(solo)

This Times article is great, some very clever ghetto representations of life in the city using Legos.

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/i-lego-ny/?em

Thanks for link Bedirhan(solo)

Come out to Laila Lounge this Friday Night for live music and djs. We have Electrocab and Molly Thompson playing live sets and Beverly Chills, KMF, and Brian Shelton spinning some tight beats afterwards.

This Times article is great, some very clever ghetto representations of life in the city using Legos.

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/i-lego-ny/?em

Thanks for link Bedirhan(solo)

This is quite possibly the most amazing bacon dish I have ever seen. This is the state of it before it cooked. You have to have to see the original post to get a sense of the bacon goodness. This post is a bit off topic, but this blog isn’t exactly focused 😉

This is quite possibly the most amazing bacon dish I have ever seen. This is the state of it before it cooked. You have to have to see the original post to get a sense of the bacon goodness. This post is a bit off topic, but this blog isn’t exactly focused 😉

Remixin.com has launched a new music website. It’s a creative networking site for musicians, djs and composers to share their music and have other remix it. Each remix uploaded to site can also be remixed. Each song uploaded to the website spawns a Remix Tree that is generated as members evolve the music through interative remixing.

Remixin.com has launched a new music website. It’s a creative networking site for musicians, djs and composers to share their music and have other remix it. Each remix uploaded to site can also be remixed. Each song uploaded to the website spawns a Remix Tree that is generated as members evolve the music through interative remixing.

This a cool new site that has people contribute their pictures of themselves with an album cover. The trick is to get the album cover to become a part of your real world scene and snap a photo. It’s a great realworld mashup of sorts. http://www.sleeveface.com/

This a cool new site that has people contribute their pictures of themselves with an album cover. The trick is to get the album cover to become a part of your real world scene and snap a photo. It’s a great realworld mashup of sorts. http://www.sleeveface.com/

It’s time for change. Go’Bama!

It’s time for change. Go’Bama!

The Art Walk was yesterday in LA at an old brewery converted to studios and gallery. There was some pretty cool art there. Some of my favorites were Jam, Lana Gomez, Kaleb Higgins, Holly Hood and Christine Caldwell

The Art Walk was yesterday in LA at an old brewery converted to studios and gallery. There was some pretty cool art there. Some of my favorites were Jam, Lana Gomez, Kaleb Higgins, Holly Hood and Christine Caldwell

This is another version of the #4, 7 min version previously posted. It’s recorded at monkeytown in brooklyn.

This is cool video on tea. If you’re into tea you have to check out www.ateava.com

This is cool video on tea. If you’re into tea you have to check out www.ateava.com

Brian Shelton (RSSO NYC) has mixed up a classic acid & chicago house mix for you. Two hours of music to take you back! I’m grooving to it right now.

Come out to Laila Lounge this Friday Night for live music and djs. We have Electrocab and Molly Thompson playing live sets and Beverly Chills, KMF, and Brian Shelton spinning some tight beats afterwards.

This is a new video from snoop dogg, “Sexual Seduction”. The term sexual seduction is pretty retarded if you think about it, but the video is brilliant! It’s worth checking out. Watch the video here (embeding is disabled). The video below is Zapp & Roger Troutman, the talkbox inspiration for snoop’s new track. Thanks Coffelt for the links.

Welcome to 2008, here’s a little video to celebrate. Some lo-fi latin flavored stuff

Allthough the use and popularity of vinyl is holding, the underlying infrastructure for pressing and distributing it is dying. Vinyl pressing quality varies greatly these days and the know how of running vinyl production machines is diminishing, not to mention good mastering services for vinyl aren’t always easy to find. Bottom line, more vinyl distributors are filing for bankruptcy. This is a deadly blow to vinyl, especially dance music vinyl.

Hot Chicks with Duchebags

This is one of the funnier blogs I’ve come across in a while. It pretty much is exactly what the title describes, it features hot girls with cheesball dudes. If you want to know what it is like to live in New Jersey, check out this site. I can’t give Jersey too much shit though, because the Deuche epidemic is all over, it knows no boundaries.

I’ve been working on getting this thing to look cool, so far it’s coming together. Over the next two weeks the look and feel of this site will be evolving, please ignore the mess. Feel free to send me some feedback.