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From bricking my first Tandy computer (sorry, Dad) to building side apps people love, I have experience tinkering and building from scratch.
Hi, I'm Brendan 👨💻
I'm a technologist and speaker
I am also a 1x engineer 👨💻 and a 4x dad 👦🏻👧🏼👦🏻👧🏼
Latest Blog Posts
Don't let good get in the way of better
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Every so often we hear the phrase “Don't let perfect get in the way of good” – but I am not convinced that goes far enough. What we should say is, “Don't let good get in the way of better.
Using PD tools to find my first subdomain takeover
Using a katana to migrate my website
Building in the open, again
What I learned at GitLab that I don't want to forget
Leaving GitLab
AI-Generated blog on security engineering.
Tech
What makes a great tech talk?
As someone who spends a reasonable amount of time writing, rehearsing, and giving tech talks, I often find folks new to speaking about tech asking me: how do you do it? How do you know that you will be able to write and give an excellent tech talk?
The simple
The Era of Platforms
The Purse Caper: Debugging can be hard
Changing your default branch - all the places
Rename your Git default branch from master to main (with GitLab screenshots)
I was wrong
