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Long-form posts on AI in the classroom, instructional design, and what enterprise L&D and community colleges have to teach each other.
Subscribe via RSSRescuing a 1996 Kitchen with an AI Decompiler, Part 1: Cracking the Archives
Someone's in the Kitchen! shipped on a Windows 95 CD-ROM in 1996. With a ripped disc image, headless Ghidra, and an AI coding agent as a pair, the first session decodes a 172 MB archive, a hash-table index, and a sprite format the game's own leftover encoder explains, with three confident wrong guesses along the way.
10 min Oct 2026Rescuing a 1996 Kitchen with an AI Decompiler, Part 2: From Bytecode to iPad
The game's logic turned out to be 1.3 MB of bytecode for a small virtual machine, so the port became a new engine in C and SDL2 that runs the original data on Apple Silicon and an iPad. Four parallel research agents, the original game under Wine as an answer key, and a parity checklist kept the AI honest.
12 min May 2026What a music-education degree actually transferred to IT leadership (and what it didn't)
The popular version of this career-pivot story is the inspirational one. The honest version is more specific, and more useful.
4 min May 2026What I learned standing up an xAPI lab system for a CC cybersecurity program
Three months in. Cost, infrastructure, schema regrets, and what to start with if you're considering this yourself.
3 min May 2026Why a 1967 thought experiment is still the right tool for AI ethics
A long-form essay drawn from the NSF-funded "Would You Pull the Lever?" workshop. AI ethics doesn't need newer frameworks. It needs older ones, applied better.
4 min Apr 2026The case for teaching cloud through real infrastructure, not labs
Our data center workers learn faster than our lab students. That's not a curriculum problem. It's an exposure problem.
2 min Mar 2026ADDIE is not the enemy. Pretending you're still doing ADDIE is.
A defense of process — and an indictment of process theater. What actually changed when we modernized technical training at VMware.
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