Tech & ADHD
The Daily Standup is Broken: Why Modern Dev Teams Need a Reset
An honest look at how daily standups have evolved from quick sync meetings into performative status reports that waste developer time
My brain runs on interrupts, caffeine and large language models.
42 tabs open, and one of them is playing music. Notes from an AI engineer with ADHD on tech, AI and life, by Chris Hendricks.
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If AI Is Built Into Public Safety Software, Vendors Should Have to Say So
Public safety agencies should not have to investigate their own software to discover whether AI is handling criminal justice information.
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AIAWS re:Invent 2025: AI, Architecture, and the Future of Cloud Building
A recap of sessions and insights from AWS re:Invent 2025, covering AI agents, zero-ETL data patterns, architecture shifts, and cloud security.
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Tech & ADHDBuilding deadlocked.life: A Blog Built with Astro and Claude
The technical journey of building this blog with Astro, AWS, and modern web technologies
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LifeWelcome to deadlocked.life
Introducing my new blog where I share experiences, tutorials, and insights on coding, adhd, and life
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What I write about
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Tech & ADHD
Systems, tools and workarounds for a brain that runs on interrupts.
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Public Safety
Building software for the people who respond on our worst days.
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AI
Where AI actually helps, where it doesn't, and how to tell the difference.
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Life
Everything else: family, habits, dishes and the dopamine math.
2 posts in Life