Writing

As a product manager, it’s kind of beaten into us from the early days that you should never listen to your customers for solutions. Yet, it’s common to see the opposite.

Time for another update on my “whenever I have time” project - OpenSpartan. I’ve done a few changes to the code base preparing for the first public alpha.

As folks might know, in my free time I am building a Halo Infinite companion app called OpenSpartan. It now supports medal visualization.

An update on the OpenSpartan development and how data within the app is stored.

I alluded to the fact that in my free time I am building a little project called OpenSpartan. I thought I’d share a bit more as to what it is.

As I am building OpenSpartan as the experience to analyze stats for Halo Infinite, I wanted to have a quicker way to analyze my performance.

I am both surprised and not surprised - AWS announced (close to a month ago) the fact that they are retiring the AWS documentation on GitHub.

I thought that it’s worth for me to at least try to use Linux as a daily driver and build my own opinion about the operating system.

The new PowerToys are out (we’re at version 0.70.0) and with it comes a new version of Awake, the caffeinate tool that folks are used to on a Mac, brought to life on Windows.

I was recently setting up a new Windows machine for work - a desktop machine that actually has enough storage for me to run local SQL experimentation. I diligently followed the steps to create a bootable Windows 11 Enterprise USB, got the disks properly formatted, installed the OS, and tried to start customizing everything to my liking only to hit a brick wall.

If there would be some absurd world where I would be able to choose two pieces of the common vocabulary that should just vanish, it would be “just” and “works for me.” We, folks in tech, got way too comfortable throwing these around.

If product management was ever perfected and applied evenly to every single company and industry, we’d likely swim in products that solve all our problems. Unfortunately, good product management is unevenly distributed and often takes on patterns and practices that are very far from optimal.

I host media content related to this blog in an Azure Blob Storage account that is exposed publicly via a CDN. Here is how I manage the caching configuration.

I am ashamed to admit that for all the nerding out I am doing around Halo I did not know that there is a Halo Museum up until a few weeks ago.

I am a big believer in good documentation being an essential part of the product. Good docs are hard to come by for several reasons, not the least being the fact that writing good docs is hard.