Career transitions offer a unique opportunity for hands-on technical exploration. After leaving my CTO role, I'm keeping skills sharp by building my Hero Wars Helper project in public. This post covers my strategies for maintaining momentum, prioritizing MVP over perfection, and using side projects to demonstrate ongoing technical relevance — all while navigating the job search process. For developers in transition, here's how to turn uncertainty into productive coding time.

In this post, I'll walk through how we are transforming our monolithic, schedule-based architecture into a modern, event-driven system that handles our CLE processing with the grace of a well-briefed legal argument. You'll learn why scheduled batch processing can create unnecessary friction in customer experience, how event-driven architecture can deliver near-real-time data processing and reporting, the step-by-step process we are using to migrate without disrupting our core business operations, and real lessons learned from managing this transformation.

During my first 8-months as a CTO, I learned a lot about how to be remote leader for an in-person team, navigate legacy notions of the technology landscape, and guide rising talent through the turbulence of change.

While experimenting with ClaudeAI, I thought it would be interesting to have a conversation around how I should improve my teams in the game I have been playing.

Ahsoka, the latest show about Jedi on Disney+, continues the tradition of template storytelling, lots of Easter eggs (even blatently thrown at the unknowing as if to taunt them for not knowing), and solidat action sequences. There are spoilers, but I don't care; this is best understood if you have already watched the season.

Bullet-pointed ramblings about The Mandalorian might be my favorite part of having a Disney+ subscription. There's no real point about all this other than that I'm having fun doing it. There are spoilers, but I don't care; this is best understood if you have already watched the season.

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