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  <updated>2026-03-25T12:14:48.503Z</updated>
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  <author>
    <name>Andrew Kesterson</name>
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Why Firefighting</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/</id>
    <published>2026-02-24T03:40:28.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-25T12:14:48.503Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;h2 id=&quot;Start-with-Why&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Start-with-Why&quot; class=&quot;headerlink&quot; title=&quot;Start with Why&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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    <title>News 2026 Week 5</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/02/09/News-2026-Week-5/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/02/09/News-2026-Week-5/</id>
    <published>2026-02-09T11:34:21.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-09T12:09:07.329Z</updated>
    
    
    <summary type="html">Here are my (limited) thoughts on the news for the 5th week of 2026. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
    
    
    
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    <title>News - 2026 - Week 4</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/30/News-2026-Week-4/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/30/News-2026-Week-4/</id>
    <published>2026-01-31T01:39:17.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-31T17:20:03.149Z</updated>
    
    
    <summary type="html">Here are my takes on the news for this week. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>There are two kinds of programmers</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/25/Two-kinds-of-programmers/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/25/Two-kinds-of-programmers/</id>
    <published>2026-01-25T13:57:43.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-25T15:57:34.000Z</updated>
    
    
    <summary type="html">Musings on the rift that the &quot;AI Revolution&quot; is exposing in the field of computer programming, that being a divide between programmers who view it as an artform, and who enjoy the act of programming itself, and those who actually do not enjoy programming, and just want to get around it faster to be more productive.</summary>
    
    
    
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    <title>News - 2026 - Week 3</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/23/News-2026-Week-3/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/23/News-2026-Week-3/</id>
    <published>2026-01-23T12:00:51.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-23T15:24:30.203Z</updated>
    
    
    <summary type="html">Here&#39;s my thoughts on news across the internet this week. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>This Old Tool : cmdarg</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/19/This-Old-Tool-cmdarg/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/19/This-Old-Tool-cmdarg/</id>
    <published>2026-01-19T19:37:26.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-19T22:12:47.060Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;A craftsman&#39;s toolbox full of old tools (shutterstock)&quot; src=&quot;/images/toolbox-shutterstock.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/center&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A craftsman</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>News-2026-Week-2</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/16/News-2026-Week-2/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/16/News-2026-Week-2/</id>
    <published>2026-01-16T15:24:09.041Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-16T15:26:34.871Z</updated>
    
    
    <summary type="html">Here are my thoughts on news across the internet this week. We touch on rent denialism, collapsing job markets, corporate productivity theater, and the many ways AI is being oversold, misused, or shoved where it doesn’t belong. Along the way I rant about enshittification, ownership (of code, hardware, and ideas), bad APIs, worse management, the slow death of the old internet, and why UNIX got it right decades ago. It’s part news roundup, part cultural autopsy, part theological and philosophical musing — ending, as usual, with a reminder to ignore the noise, give your attention to what you love, and keep your eyes on God and the horizon. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>libakerror</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/10/libakerror/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/10/libakerror/</id>
    <published>2026-01-11T03:11:25.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-11T03:21:35.867Z</updated>
    
    
    <summary type="html">A C library I wrote for exception style error handling in C code</summary>
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>News - 2026 - Week 1</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/08/News-2026-Week-1/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/08/News-2026-Week-1/</id>
    <published>2026-01-09T03:11:25.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-11T03:17:51.248Z</updated>
    
    
    <summary type="html">Musings on android source code releases, the return of the keyboard PC, some AI workflows are just event driven architecture, sociopaths in civil service, what happens when AI interfaces replace proper APIs, and comprehensible interfaces to quantum computing chips</summary>
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Smart LEGO</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/06/Smart-LEGO/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/06/Smart-LEGO/</id>
    <published>2026-01-07T03:11:25.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-11T03:17:27.144Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Single Pane of Glass</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/04/Single-Pane-of-Glass/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/04/Single-Pane-of-Glass/</id>
    <published>2026-01-05T03:11:25.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-11T03:17:00.681Z</updated>
    
    
    <summary type="html">There are too many ways of doing the same shit across too many different mediums and platforms</summary>
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Socrates got a raw deal</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2025/01/04/Socrates-got-a-raw-deal/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2025/01/04/Socrates-got-a-raw-deal/</id>
    <published>2025-01-04T20:06:30.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-07-20T23:35:28.152Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;If you don’t know already, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates&quot;&gt;Socrates&lt;/a&gt; was a Greek philosopher who lived in Athens a</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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    <category term="Liberal Education" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Liberal-Education/"/>
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Advice for New Managers : Part 3</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2024/03/08/new-manager-pt3/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2024/03/08/new-manager-pt3/</id>
    <published>2024-03-08T05:10:28.000Z</published>
    <updated>2025-07-20T23:35:28.152Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Welcome back to my series of advice for new managers. In the previous post, &lt;a href=&quot;/2024/03/05/new-manager-pt2/&quot;&gt;Advice for New</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Advice for New Managers : Part 2</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2024/03/05/new-manager-pt2/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2024/03/05/new-manager-pt2/</id>
    <published>2024-03-05T17:10:28.000Z</published>
    <updated>2024-03-31T16:10:27.030Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Welcome back to my series of advice for new managers. In the previous post, &lt;a href=&quot;/2024/03/03/new-manager-pt1/&quot;&gt;Advice for New</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Advice for New Managers : Part 1</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2024/03/03/new-manager-pt1/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2024/03/03/new-manager-pt1/</id>
    <published>2024-03-03T17:10:28.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-02T13:27:46.633Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The big day is finally here. You’ve worked hard, proven your ability to provide business value, distinguished yourself among your</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Setting Expectations</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2024/02/09/expectations/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2024/02/09/expectations/</id>
    <published>2024-02-09T13:30:30.000Z</published>
    <updated>2024-03-31T16:10:27.030Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;h1 id=&quot;“My-expectation-is-…”&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#“My-expectation-is-…”&quot; class=&quot;headerlink&quot; title=&quot;“My expectation is …”&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;“My expectation is</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
    <category term="Leadership" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Leadership/"/>
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Start with Why</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2024/01/29/Simon-Sinek-Start-with-Why/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2024/01/29/Simon-Sinek-Start-with-Why/</id>
    <published>2024-01-29T21:35:48.000Z</published>
    <updated>2024-03-31T16:10:27.030Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;h1 id=&quot;Start-with-Why&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Start-with-Why&quot; class=&quot;headerlink&quot; title=&quot;Start with Why&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Start with Why&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Image of Start</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>US Catholic Catechism for Adults</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2023/12/23/United-States-Catholic-Catechism-for-Adults/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2023/12/23/United-States-Catholic-Catechism-for-Adults/</id>
    <published>2023-12-23T22:03:44.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-02T13:29:15.280Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;h1 id=&quot;United-States-Catholic-Catechism-for-Adults&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#United-States-Catholic-Catechism-for-Adults&quot; class=&quot;headerlink&quot;</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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  <entry>
    <title>Copper Sun</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2023/11/05/Copper-Sun/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2023/11/05/Copper-Sun/</id>
    <published>2023-11-06T01:01:51.000Z</published>
    <updated>2024-03-31T16:10:27.030Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;img alt=&quot;Image of Copper Sun&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px;&quot; src=&quot;/images/books/coppersun.jpg&quot;&gt;

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    <title>The Cost of Discipleship</title>
    <link href="https://aklabs.net/2023/10/10/The-Cost-of-Discipleship/"/>
    <id>https://aklabs.net/2023/10/10/The-Cost-of-Discipleship/</id>
    <published>2023-10-11T00:23:33.000Z</published>
    <updated>2024-03-31T16:10:27.030Z</updated>
    
    
      
      
        
        
    <summary type="html">&lt;img alt=&quot;Image of The Cost of Discipleship&quot; style=&quot;float: left; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px;&quot;</summary>
        
      
    
    
    
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