The Technology We Take for Granted Is Pretty Amazing

We had some intense rapid storms hit last night that caused power failure for roughly 30-40% of Greater Houston area.

Time to test some of my flexible DR developer setup 💪.

I’m sitting the middle row of a nice minivan posting this (thanks Dad for the killer deal! 😁)… and it got me thinking of the “simple” tech we take for granted.

• I’m charging with a 100w AC port in the minivan.¹
• I’m connected to the internet by merely connecting my iphone via usb to the mac, no extra configuration or steps required.
• I’m then able to push code, deploy to production ahem, development environments.
• Get code completions from a LLM directly inline my editor while driving and even generate new code projects via copilot with workspace.

There’s so much incredible engineering behind the simple act of connecting a phone to my computer and then having access to all this, it’s incredible.