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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
Productive non-productivity
I love the show Mad Men. I'm not sure any artistic work has so accurately captured the "feel" of an era - from the positive to the negative, from the real to the imagined, from the glamours to the errors in judgment. And to top it off, I love a
What they don't tell you about being an executive
AI Instagram
New Talk: Shakespeare, Bacon and the NSA
AI - What can it do for me today?
Don't let good get in the way of better
Using PD tools to find my first subdomain takeover
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
