Navigating the High Seas of

Tech, Art & Beyond

Engineering executive and board director with depth in AI strategy, and high-scale consumer platforms. Writing about technology, leadership, and building things that last.

Navigating the high seas of technology, art and more

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Resources

ByteLearner: A No-Cost Technical Learning Platform

Notes on ByteLearner, a no-cost platform covering cloud, security, programming, and systems topics through short, task-focused content.

Engineering

Measuring Continuously & Fixing Each Bottleneck

How to set up continuous monitoring for hardware bottlenecks, establish baselines, and apply step-by-step remediation for each constraint type.

Engineering

What These Hardware Terms Actually Mean

Plain-language explanations of IPC, cache lines, memory bandwidth, IOPS, NVLink, and every other term you see in performance discussions.

Engineering

Workload Bottlenecks → Hardware: A Practical Mapping Guide

Interactive tables mapping common workload bottlenecks to the hardware investments that deliver the greatest performance improvements.

Productivity

RB's Action Test: A Mental Model for Enterprise Velocity

A mental model that challenges prolonged decision cycles in enterprise product development, IT services, and managed platforms by benchmarking discussion time against actual build time.

AI Development

Idea Evaluation Matrix: 8-Dimension Radar for Vetting Startups

An interactive radar chart tool to score and compare startup ideas across 8 key dimensions.

Development

Building a Gaming & Esports Platform for Younger Audiences

A passion project focused on creating an immersive, safety-first gaming and esports experience designed for younger players, starting with sports-themed games.

Development

3 Years with the Pandas VSCode Extension: Enhancing Developer Productivity

Development Blog

Deploying this Blog: Hugo + Traefik + Letsencrypt + Ubuntu

A concise guide to deploying a Hugo website with Traefik and GoDaddy DNS.

Tech AI

Building a Streaming AI CLI Tool with Microsoft Agents Framework (C#)

Learn how to build a command-line AI assistant that streams responses in real-time using the Microsoft Agents Framework and Ollama using C#