FN · June 4, 2026
Part ten: finishing the NDSU computer science degree eleven years into the career it describes — why bother, what the classroom looks like from the far side of production, and what it closed.
FN · April 10, 2026
Part six: seven years at the Fargo shop end in the strangest year there was — what the valley installed for good, and what moving to Minneapolis was actually for.
FN · March 19, 2026
Part five: shipping .NET and PHP side by side to Red River Valley businesses, and how serving a small market's whole economy makes platform tribalism impossible.
FN · March 9, 2026
Part four: what seven years as a project lead actually trains — estimation as honesty, translation as the real deliverable, and being the name attached when things break.
FN · January 21, 2026
Part two: shipping native mobile apps with GPS at their core from Fargo — and what building for devices in the field teaches that browser work never will.
FN · January 9, 2026
Part one of a thirteen-part professional memoir: walking into a Fargo software shop in 2013, the Drupal 7 era in full swing, and learning that shipping is the only teacher.
FN 08 · October 16, 2024
A retrospective on 2013–2020: building native Android and iOS apps with real-time GPS in North Dakota, standing up AWS before it was the default, and the lessons that still run every project.