Words are good, so here is our history.

Facebook's Folly

By Jeffrey M. Barber

Facebook was an interesting place to work. Granted, my perspective may be corrupted, but I do believe it was a good and moral place to work. However, the goodness was rooted in naïve faith in technology. That changed in 2016. The noble mission of “connecting the world” had a blind-spot.

Building a reddit clone with AI (and Adama/RxHTML)

By Jeffrey M. Barber

Let’s combine all righteous anger going on at reddit and all the ai hype with chatgpt by building a reddit clone with AI. Then let’s have that clone be powered by Adama.

A Commitment To Freedom

By Jeffrey M. Barber

I want to be free. I want to just live. Freedom is talked about very loosely, but I think very few people have tasted liberty. It’s worth dying for.

How RxHTML works

By Jeffrey M. Barber

I had a great conversation with a friend at lunch about how RxHTML works since I’m pivoting towards a “concierge engineering company”. Today, I want to illustrate how the full stack web app side of Adama works.

How to write a design document

By Jeffrey M. Barber

I’m a big fan of writing (as you can tell from my blog of half-baked ideas) as I believe writing is an essential act to have good thinking. The written word is an arena to battle with ideas, so in this post I want to outline my philosophy of writing design documents. This is because I’m designing an intern program, and I will require interns that touch the Adama code base to write a design document. Thus, this document will serve as a cache for that program.

Hiring for a burn-out free organization

By Jeffrey M. Barber

I have been bingeing Suits. It’s a predictably dramatic show that’s just popcorn. However, it does make me yearn for the hard-core life. I miss working 12+ hour days getting shit done.