Weather
I Missed the Blizzard of '26
The biggest storm to hit Connecticut since 2013 dropped 17.5 inches on Milford. I was 750 miles away in Indiana. By the time I got home, the roads were clear.
Healthcare IT
The HIPAA Security Rule Is Getting Its Biggest Overhaul in 13 Years
Opinion
The Pentagon Wants an AI That Kills. Anthropic Said No. Will It Be Punished?
AI
The AI Selloff Has Spread Far Beyond SaaS
Healthcare IT
Mississippi's Largest Health System Shut Down by Ransomware
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AI
Roll Your Own AI Note-Taker
A colleague mentioned he built his own digital transcriptionist in minutes. I followed suit — and now I have better meeting notes than ever.
AI
This Is Your Brain on AI
AI is making us more productive than ever — and more drained than ever. The research is starting to explain why.
Healthcare IT
227 Million Rows of Medicaid Claims, Free to Download
HHS released the largest Medicaid dataset in department history — 227 million rows of provider-level claims data, free to download. I spent a Sunday afternoon joining it with public reference files to see what it could tell me about Connecticut.
Healthcare IT
AI Was Supposed to Replace Radiologists. It Made Them More Valuable Instead.
Geoffrey Hinton said in 2016 that we should stop training radiologists. A decade later, demand is at record highs, compensation is strong, and half of open positions can't be filled. Here's what AI is actually doing in radiology.
Technology
iOS 26.3: One Zero-Day, 40 Patches, and a Door to Android
Apple's iOS 26.3 patches 40 security vulnerabilities including an actively exploited spyware zero-day, adds a first-party Transfer to Android migration tool built for EU compliance, and opens iPhone notifications to third-party wearables in Europe.
Technology
Microsoft's February 2026 Patch Tuesday: 58 Flaws, Six Zero-Days, and Copilot Under Fire
Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday addresses 58 vulnerabilities including six actively exploited zero-days — an unusually high exploitation rate — plus three remote code execution flaws in GitHub Copilot that should worry every developer.
AI
From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
A year after coining 'vibe coding,' Andrej Karpathy says the real discipline is 'agentic engineering' — orchestrating AI agents under structured human oversight. Here's why the distinction matters.
AI
Giving Claude Code Eyes with Playwright MCP
Model Context Protocol lets AI coding agents use external tools. Playwright MCP gives Claude Code a browser it can control — and for a blog like this, that changes the frontend workflow entirely.
Technology
The Cloud Database Landscape in 2026
A conversation about our cloud data strategy sent me down a rabbit hole. I asked Claude to help me map every database option across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and beyond.
AI
Connecticut's Free AI Course May Be Worth Your Time
The Connecticut Online AI Academy is free, online, and open to all residents 18 and older. If you haven't formally started your AI journey, this is a solid place to begin.