The Relentless Push
Riding the Coin Pusher of Life
devpassion Tech Insights, Open Source & Personal Growth
I wear many hats in my professional life - developer, system administrator, and even a teacher at times. You could say I have a mixed bag of skills and experiences, both good and bad. One thing I absolutely love is writing, so you'll find some of my content floating around the web, along with a ton of code.
Latest articles
The 60% Effort Rule in the Age of AI
How to Write Tasks for Humans and Machines
The "Average" Problem: Why AGI is a Moving Goalpost
The pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) — a concept I learned about this week — is often framed as a climb toward a distant mountain peak. We define it broadly, as an AI that matches or exceeds the sum total of human capability—the abili...
Stop Guessing, Start Measuring Your Git Repository
Turn Your Git Repository into an SQL Database with gitstatdb
Hacktoberfest 2025
Hacktoberfest 2025 just finished — and guess what? They brought back the swag!After last year’s digital-only celebration, seeing the return of t-shirts and tree-planting rewards brought a wave of nostalgia and motivation 😊 For some reason, I didn’t ...
Optimizing MySQL Application Queries
From performance logs to actionable solutions, made easy with a little help from AI.
The Second Is Not the First to Lose
As I wrote my previous post on finding what you love, a recurring thought kept surfacing: “The second is the first to lose.” I’ve always hated that phrase. It’s the kind of idea that gets repeated until we stop questioning it. But I do. I question it...
Find what you love.
This week, I received the same message three times. The Understandably newsletter reminded me of the speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford. Yes, that one, again. You can access it from the newsletter. Then, during a company meeting, the same theme was...
We should turn off the lights more often.
It started like any other post-apocalyptic event, with no warning, no sign of what was about to happen. I was happily code-reviewing and debugging some fixes when the computer went off. Silence, not a whirl or beep to be heard. Stumped by the situati...
