About

Hi, I’m Taude (pronounced like Claude, but with a T). I’ve been spelling my name this way on the internet since the mid-90s, and is only coincidently rhyming with Claude in this new AI world.

I formerly blogged at Simplified Chaos during the peak blogging era of rich Internet apps, wrote about my cycling shenanigans on double-hop photos, that eventually morphed into #20poundskull and covering cyclocross for various media outlets, and of course racing a lot of cyclocross, and traveling to Europe to make the cult classic, and greatest cyclocross movie of all time, Das Pro und The Rookie (would link that, but Vimeo changes their hosting policies and it’s currently locked down).

Other then my former cycling glory 😁, I write about the things I’m learning, currently around AI (like everyone else), and software, management (can’t believe I’ve been managing at various org-levels for over 11 years now) plus whatever else sticks: quick TIL notes, longer posts, and short quotes worth remembering.

All my writing in “posts” will be my own, but there will be some ai-slop, here and there, and it’ll be labeled as such, since part of the purpose of this blog is to publish all the things I need to remember. A big inspiration for all this is Simon Willison’s blog.

I really want to get back to creating a part of the web that’s mine, and not controlled by any social media algorithm. The new era of AI and agents, and easy automation is enabling this.

This site is built with Hugo and the PaperMod theme, and I write most of it in Obsidian before publishing it here. More details over at The tool stack behind this blog.

You can find me on GitHub, or reach me at [email protected].