Larry Myers

mostly cycling and technology

Daily Note

September 3, 2025

The tech industry seems to be performing a real time experiment to see if they can survive without a talent pipeline. There’s a continual stream of news about how bad the hiring market is for junior engineers and how senior engineers (that can use an LLM) are doing just fine.

This is likely one of those situations that will take many years to play out before a negative effects are felt. At some point companies will struggle to get a small army of AI agents to understand high level business problems and technology, and realize they have to pay phenomenal sums of money for the dwindling pool of senior engineers. It’s the like the problem of banks maintaining their COBOL mainframe systems, but for everything.

This feels very much like 2008 when there was a significant shift in the tech world and nobody was ready. (See: smartphones and the cloud.)

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Articles

Own Your MX Record

Your email address is the most important digital asset you have. Make sure you own and control it.

How to Create an Astro Markdown Plugin

Creating a Markdown plugin for the the Astro framework is great way to make it easier to author content for a static website. This tutorial will show to how to create a basic plugin.

How to Run Your Own Minecraft Server

Want to be the coolest parent ever? Run a home Mincraft server.

We Can Have Nice Things

An explanation of a phrase I've found myself repeating during my career.

The Downsides of Remote Work

Sometimes you need more than the endless solitude of the home office.
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About Me

I'm a [Dad, Technologist, Cyclist] living in Chicago with my wife, kids, and cats. There are some ghost shrimp in a fishtank too, but I'm not sure I count them as members of the household.

When I'm not getting paid to code I'm usually playing outside and exploring the city.

Things I've Built github logo

Cycling Weather Forecast

weather.larrymyers.com

There's plenty of weather forecasts out there, but none did a good job of answering the question: "When should I go biking tomorrow?"

So I built one for myself. It's an extremely lightweight traditional webapp with a Go powered backend.

Metra Train Tracker

metra.larrymyers.com

Metra has never had a good train tracker, I doubt they ever will. This is a React app with a Go backend that is geared towards people who want to know when the next train is coming with just a quick glance to their phone.

Wordle Solver

wordle.larrymyers.com

Some days you just don't want to spend the time staring at your 3rd guess trying to figure out a word that fits. I built this wordle solver to allow me to spend more time analyzing guesses and less time trying to think of words.

Chicago by Bike

Palos MTB Trails for New Riders

When you are new to mountain biking Palos can be both awesome and intimidating. With the right approach it's a great place to learn.

The Lake Michigan Ferry Tour

A self supported 5 day bike tour around the lower half of Lake Michigan.

Illinois Prairie Path / Fox River Trail

Endless miles of mixed surface trails through the western suburbs.

Sheridan Road

Ten miles on one of the best cycling roads through the North Shore.

2025 Ride Stats

Year to Date 1493 mi
Week of Sep 1 33 mi
Week of Aug 25 51 mi
Week of Aug 18 81 mi
Week of Aug 11 74 mi
Week of Aug 4 38 mi
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