writing — hev mind

2026

Hev meets Jev

How to choose a vector database

Dope tech: TopK

A new role for SWE, managing outcomes not outputs

Competing as a privateer in the AI race

Cheating at search for Astro docs

New site, who dis

State of Agentic Engineering: Building a CLI for turbopuffer

Harnessing agentic search

The end of vibecheck developer preview, and the start of something more ambitious

2025

Evals were everywhere at re:Invent

Open Source Ready Podcast - Rethinking AI Evals with Adam Hevenor

Why AI Projects Die in Testing (And How We Fixed It)

2023

Five observations from enterprises using vectors to build AI applications

2019

Introducing Kube Carbon

2018

Kubernetes at 4: The worlds next most dominant technology?

Five Design Principles for Modern Infrastructure Products

Looking Through a Glass Onion of User Feedback

Common Misconceptions About Distributed Logging Systems

Breaking Down the Observability Problem for Distributed Systems

Why UX Practitioners Should Learn About SRE

Rapid Troubleshooting of the Cloud Foundry Logging System

Heuristics For Addressing Product Management Bias — Learning from Human Factors in Avalanche…

Product Thinking : Build What Matters and Ship It!

Designing for the Operator Experience

2017

Software Architecture for Product Managers

10 Steps for Writing Better User Stories

Defining Service Level Objectives for Open Source Software

A Framework for Understanding Agile Teams

2013

Announcing Impact Driven (slowly)

2012

Personal Branding – Tools and Resources

Unconference Report

Denver House of Genius

Healthy Innovation at the Unite for Sight Conference

Nonprofit Technology Conference 2012: Music to My Ears

Technology, Education, and the iPad

2011

The 1% Difference: Connectivity, Collaboration, and Cognitive Surplus for Social Good

Common Pitch Report

India Trip Report

2010

The Kleptones come in first!

2009

Mobile Mobile

Colorado Crankworks

2008

Published!

Private Ranch Trails

Fall Fun

Pacific Travels

Eaton Park Remix – 6.25

Don’t call it a come back

2007

Stone Skis?

Steep – A Skiing Documentary

The Kleptones – Liver than you’ll ever be

Best or Worst of Both Worlds?

Jimmy and Tammy Show

Automata

Facebook valued at $15 Billion

How many hits do I get?

A Southwestern Tour

New and Improved

Chips Cashed

2006

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