Steve Taylor

Computer geek, Chicago sports nut, and woodworker - in some order. #USAFA02

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

This summer my kids & I are helping a local community in Claremont, Jamaica. This is a regular trip for our church, but is especially important Hurricane Melissa this past season. We would appreciate your prayers, but would love your financial support.

https://t.co/7MXgszUPiI

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@luceroicantu @ACC_National I had to do a double take before flying into a rage over Standford joining the Atlantic Coast Conference....

[EZ @IAMERICAbooted]

Organizations think in silos.

Attackers don't. They have no scope restrictions, stakeholder buyin restrictions, "someone else's role" restrictions, red tape, beauocracy, operational friction... ... ...

[Daniel Kelley @danieltkelley]

If Tom Cruise had any sense of humor, he’d do a cameo on “Reacher” as a con man who has been going around pretending to be Reacher, and then when they meet he’s like “Whoa, you really are huge, it was wild of me to pretend I’m you.”

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Midwest dads when you open a window while the AC is on

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

Still more successful than the GOTS history...

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

Yikes, half of all generative AI projects will overrun budgeted costs and get abandoned?

Oh, that's the same failure rate of most *any* software project for the past few decades?

Big IT programs have always had a mixed record!
https://t.co/EjQHBmkjbL

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@reprise_99 Ran this for grins, had a mini heart attack when two things came back, but it was just some Japanese colleagues naming in their native language

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@nealstephenson @b_peters12 @andyweirauthor @projecthailmary @JLCollinsNH @MarcusduSautoy @shehackspurple Book #11 - Visioneering by @AndyStanley

The capstone book for our leadership development group, walking through Nehemiah as an example of how to move from personal vision to execution, all the while depending on God.

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

Time to start up the 2026 #ReadingList

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@nealstephenson @b_peters12 @andyweirauthor @projecthailmary @JLCollinsNH @MarcusduSautoy Book #10 - Alice & Bob learn Secure Coding by @shehackspurple

Every so often I have to scratch my dev itch, and doing so securely hits all of the bases. From concepts to programs to language/package specifics, this book covers the whole gamut.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@politicalmath @phillippepayant @PstafarianPrice

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

Time constrained Murph this morning:

1 mile run
65 pullups
130 pushups
260 air squats
1 mile run

44:08

#Remember

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@sherrod_im Link to the podcast - https://t.co/EkdTlks0R2

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

"You're terraforming the battlefield that we have to fight on... please give us the higher ground." - @sherrod_im, talking to internal developers

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

Will there ever be a Peanut to counter Wemby?

[Fantasy Life @MBFantasyLife]

But there was 🤖

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@dilanesper This was peak "HARD COPY" et al television

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@benhackshealth Don't sell yourself short, judge. You're a tremendous slouch

[EZ @IAMERICAbooted]

Early career people leaders often think people need to be managed.

People dont need to be managed. They need to be motivated.

If you have direct reports and think they need to be managed, I have news for you: you are the problem :p

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

Good morning vibes, courtesy of @OldHollowTree

[Steve Taylor @Torch02]

@wrowclif

[Ben Canning @benhackshealth]

You know when you build something and you're super hyped about it?

Then you speak to someone who actually knows what they're talking about... and you find out your SPF records are missing, your DMARC isn't set up properly, and your DKIM entries are fighting each other?

That was me last week.

I built an entire website using my words, copy and paste, screen shots and AI. It looks the part and is mostly functional. I enjoyed the process.

AI allowed me to make the thing, but it does not know what I do not know.

And this is why both my job and your job are safe.

In my world right now, everyone is wondering whether they should micro dose tirzepatide, if seed oils are killing them, how to eliminate microplastics, or how much methylene blue is too much.

Meanwhile they haven't drunk enough water, they slept for 4 hours, haven't been outside since Thursday last week, their resting heart rate is 83, and they're on their 8th coffee of the day.

The basics aren't sexy.
So nobody's selling them.
So nobody's learning them.
So nobody's actually fucking doing them.

Which is fantastic news for both of us.

You'll keep getting hired because people will keep building functional-looking systems with broken infrastructure underneath.

I'll keep getting hired because people will keep researching the latest peptide to help them when they actually just need to drink enough water.

AI can build me a website but it can't build me a bedtime.

Until that changes, we're both safe.