January 28, 2026Once upon a time at work, I was tasked with writing automated tests for a web application built on top of Salesforce. The devs used a special plugin to implement a custom UI, but the underlying UI and Backend were still Salesforce. Now, I know what you’re thinking. You shouldn’t be testing Salesforce. That’s Salesforce (the company)’s job. And you’d be right, but it’s not just SF, it’s our team’s implementation of hundreds of little customizeable widgets, features, formulas, plugins and extras that all work in part to create a CMS.
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December 29, 2025 Late in 2024, I downloaded an RSS feed reader and began using it as my primary scrolling news feed. What a difference that has made in my personal relationship with the internet! It’s like using a GOOD version of Reddit with zero ads and only interesting content I subscribed to!
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March 9, 2025 So there I was…
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So there I was applying to another startup on Y-Combinator a few Mondays ago, and in my cover letter I made a joke about how difficult it is to get deterministic responses out of LLMs. Almost immediately after I sent the email, I instantly came up with a better joke I should have used instead:
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February 7, 2025 The Problem
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Maybe like me, you work on lots of remote, terminal-only servers setting up stupid stuff like Plex, Jenkins, Godot Packaging, game servers, etc.
If you do this, you probably spend hours testing terminal commands trying to find the exact commands to configure your device properly. If your server ever went down, all that work would be lost forever.
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December 3, 2024 
What is Shorter Services?
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Shorter.Services is a SAAS application I dreamed up in December 2023. I wanted to make it easier to convert human-readable text from rasterized files into machine-readable data. I also wanted to make money off what I thought was a unique idea.
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