Archive - Good Tech Things

Breaking some huge personal news

This is the biggest news I have ever put in this newsletter

Feb 7 •

Forrest Brazeal

January 2025

December 2024

What hath AWS wrought?

thoughts on a very, very strange re:Invent

Dec 10, 2024 •

Forrest Brazeal

November 2024

The case against living in the Bay Area, for ambitious tech people

Nov 22, 2024 •

Forrest Brazeal

October 2024

Tech the Heck? Archera

I warned you this would be a recurring feature

Oct 15, 2024 •

Forrest Brazeal

September 2024

Knowledge Worker

Of all the creative work I've done, I think I'm most proud of this.

Sep 18, 2024 •

Forrest Brazeal

August 2024

The death of the [modified] developer

It's not just juniors who've had their career yanked out from under them by AI.

Aug 30, 2024 •

Forrest Brazeal

July 2024

The end of the Everything Cloud

Why is AWS deprecating a bunch of services all of a sudden, and what does it mean for you?

Jul 30, 2024 •

Forrest Brazeal

The case for conferences in 2024

COVID and the end of ZIRP weirded everything. Are companies still funding travel for professional development, and is it still worth doing?

Jul 17, 2024 •

Forrest Brazeal

June 2024

This is what software development looks like now

It's ... interesting?

Jun 19, 2024 •

Forrest Brazeal

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