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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
New Talk: Shakespeare, Bacon and the NSA
A code-breaking Quaker poet from Indiana who hunted Nazi spies? All right, that sounds like some sort of comic-book superhero.
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
Using a katana to migrate my website
Building in the open, again
What I learned at GitLab that I don't want to forget
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
