Happy New Year!

Matt Turner

02 Jan 2025 — 1 min read

Just wanted to say Happy New Year everyone, and hope you all have an amazing 2025. My resolution is to write more, and just live life a little more. Be more in touch with my family, my friends, and my hobbies. Maybe not stress too much about work.

I started this thing in December, though I have a bunch of "not so well" formatted brain dumps I plan to clean up some and post here.

Some things I'm thinking about:

How I created this site (using ghost.org, self-hosted)
Some of my home automation stuff
Discussions about platform engineering and the benefits - plus my personal experience on how hard it is to convince leadership of those benefits
Agentic AIs and my experience building a prototype architect agent
Technical debt and why it isn't necessarily a bad thing
Metrics - and how I hate using them to measure team success

Anything you'd like to discuss, throw it in the comments!

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