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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This battle between OAK and SFO on naming seems mostly to revolve around the "San Francisco Bay" in any new name. I think the solution is easy, and Donald Trump showed us the way. OAK should just unilaterally rename "San Francisco Bay" to "Oakland Bay". Problem solved. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I learned something new today. In California High School Softball, a “fake tag” (defined as applying a tag without the ball) is considered obstruction. Weird rule, but I guess it makes sense.

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Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com · 15/04/2025

Finally did it. I wrote down how to build a code-editing agent. In 315 lines of code. And yes, it works. Very well. There is no moat. Read it here: ampcode.com/how-to-build...

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Did anyone else notice that Ferrari managed to get IBM and HP to put their logos next to each other on the car’s new livery? We live in interesting times.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Tile maketh the kitchen. Lots left to do, but Mia’s vision is coming together nicely.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is phenomenal advice. Always ask yourself “so what?” Or “what’s the point?”. Work towards building the listener’s mental model, rather than just filling it with mostly useless facts.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Licking my wounds a little today. Found out yesterday I didn’t get a job I was fairly certain I landed. Basically they decided I was overqualified and hired someone younger/with less experience. This has happened twice now, and friends have also had several similar experiences. <more>

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Happy 2025, all. Just a reminder that I am still looking for my next opportunity, and that I would love to talk to you about your enterprise software sales engineering and product management leadership needs.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I will be paying attention to Flatcar. The time seems right for an impovement to container OSes. Is this it? Or, alternatively, is there a modern computing replacement to containers waiting in the wings? It's always a fun market in enterprise tech if you know what to look for.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I just used claude.ai to diagnose a problem connecting to javadoc.io from any device on any network in Alameda, CA. It seems Cloudflare has a misconfigured connection to javadoc.io from this area. Has anyone else encountered problems in the Bay Area? I will try to file an issue with javadoc.io.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ok, folks. Is anyone else having trouble reaching Javadoc.io? I get either a 522 error or nothing when I try to access on WiFi or cellular, via Chrome or Safari, and after clearing out all cookies. I’m stumped. Netbeans also can’t connect.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The next door neighbors to this rental left their dogs in the back yard while they went on a trip for Thanksgiving. The damn things haven’t stopped barking for close to 15 hours. Sanity is in short supply right now…

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Doing a ton of homework on network security this week for a technical interview. Not sure how I'll do, but at least I'll be buzzword compliant… In all seriousness, it is amazing how far this tech has come since my three years at Cisco. I am suitably impressed.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Are you supposed to feel satisfied with yourself when the biggest to-do item you struck off your list so far today is scheduling your colonoscopy? Asking for a friend.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

“Buy a Hybrid,” they said. “You’ll save money in the long run,” they said. This is what it cost to replace the **water pump**! Full engine out repair over 8 hours. Probably ate up most of what we’ve saved in gas costs over 9 years of ownership. Runs great now, though.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Tough day today. Car is going to need an extremely expensive repair (which likely kills most of the savings I gained by owning a hybrid for 10 years). Struggling with an AI agent that apparently doesn’t understand how Spring Security works. This, too, shall pass…

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I both regret and embrace the fact that my code writing chops took a hit as I had increased influence on overall strategy, messaging, and even architectural considerations. Coding is, IMHO, a focused activity, where product-market fit is a broad "take all inputs from all sources and adjust" activity

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

So much saved LinkedIn content. So little time. Thinking of building an agentic AI to read all of the agentic AI content I have saved. Only I should probably read that content before I build a sophisticated agentic AI workflow… Sigh.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

This is a first principle for me. Getting to V3 is critical, but you can’t force it. You can, however, curate work to get there as efficiently as possible.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Sweet! Slowly but surely rebuilding my network here. Hope to have some lively discussions on the weeks/years ahead.

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

@adamhjk.me Thanks for getting me to check out Bluesky again. Who are the "must follows" for tech discussion, in your opinion?

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James Urquhart @jamesurquhart.bsky.social · 04/06/2023

Just noticed I never posted here. Gotta fix that…

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