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I write about shipping software for a living.

I’m Dustin — an engineer in Ithaca. Fifteen years in, mostly on platform teams that other people had to live with afterward. This is where I put the notes.

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Feb 27, 2025

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/ programming / worker alienation / Marxism / business

Stop Trying to Kill the Fullstack Developer

Full-stack developers are a rare thing in the history of the working class. The artificial eradication of them from small teams hurts small businesses and the…

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/ Drupal / Entrepreneurship / Community

The Right Type of Independence

Today I want to talk a bit about the multiple meanings of independence. I'm going to focus a bit on trying to navigate different forms of independence that I've…

Nov 21, 2023 11 min read

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/ confession / Drupal / NextJS

Confession: I Am Addicted to Fiddling With Tech

A few days ago, despite recently extolling the virtues of my return to Drupal and my related desire to stop screwing around with 'experimental' tech, and just…

Jan 31, 2023 2 min read

// Currently

What I’m in the middle of.

Building — this site, end to end, theme through content pipeline.
Reading — see the reading list for what’s currently open.
Thinking about — what “staff-level” actually means day to day.

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// Elsewhere

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