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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
Using a katana to migrate my website
For years, I coded my website as a static site generated amalgam. While I started from the base VuePress as a building block – which is great, by the way – I also spent far too much time coding fun things by hand. While these things (like hidden keyboard shortcuts) are fun,
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.
How to Learn Anything
What makes a great tech talk?
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
