I have Google Takeout setup to periodically export to GDrive as a series of 10Gb .zip files. I’ve been meaning to get these over to S3 for a bit in part for backup purposes, and in part because I wanted to futz with the photos.| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
I broke the XML on my MLP Atom feed with unescaped HTML. Good times. Retro. Very early this millennia vibe.| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
My big fantasy for what I’d do with a little free time is start a link blog. This is probably a sad commentary on a half dozen things simultaneously. - kellan, May 08, 2024| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
Because I use a slightly non-standard Jekyll for this blog I’ve been generating the HTML locally and then rsync’ing that output to a very tiny Linode host versus just letting Github Pages handle the hosting as I do with kellanem.com.| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
Spent some time this weekend at a wedding with a lot of very old friends.| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
This is part 3 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of speaking with a range of folks in the industry over several months about the sense that something about the current state of tech, startups and software has gone quite wrong.| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
This is part 2 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of my asking a bunch of folks about the current state of software engineering, the sense that it is not going well, that people are disillusioned and frustrated. In part 1 I talked a bit about the macro economic trend, namely the end of the decade of cheap money for tech investments, which is driving this conversation, and shaped some of the changes to the industry over the last decade.| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
Over the last few months I’ve been intrigued by a question: where is the frustration and disillusionment, so prevalent currently in the software industry, coming from? And, as an engineering leader, what can I learn from this discontent and how should it shape my practices?| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
I’ve got Claude Code running in the background while I tab between writing this, sipping a Powers, and fielding phone calls from a team slightly panicked about the end of quarter QBR. This blog post is being written on May 27th, 2025, things may have changed by the time you read it. It was a toss up whether to post this on Notes on engineering leadership, or here, but eventually decided this was too loose for even Notes low standards. You’ve been warned (or at least given a context window...| Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog