Brian Porter · CTO

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Technologist, entrepreneur, visionary, programmer.

A technical journal on engineering leadership, machine intelligence, and architectures built to last — field notes from four decades of building systems.

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📌 Pinned DEC 30 · 2025

A CTO's Perspective on AI in 2026

Every year brings a new wave of AI predictions. Most are hype. Here's what I actually think will matter in 2026.

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MAY 17 · 2026

How To Double Your Claude Code Sessions Without Restarting

Claude Code's context window fills up faster than you'd like. RTK is the small tool I lean on to keep sessions lean — and it's ...

MAY 15 · 2026

Why I'm Using the Caveman Plugin in Claude Code

A Reddit post about teaching Claude to talk like a caveman to save tokens turned into a real, well-built plugin — and it stayed...

ai OCT 18 · 2023

I Recreated the Ultimate Cocktail from Just an Instagram Pic: Here's How!

What if I told you that with a bit of ingenuity, and a dash of tech magic, I managed to reverse-engineered one of the best cocktails I've...

startup JUN 04 · 2023

Empowering Startups: Six Essential Tech Workshops for Ideation, Validation, and Revenue Growth

Leveraging my expertise in technology and lean methodologies, I've crafted six pivotal workshop topics for startups. These sessions, cove...

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