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Learning a New Tech Stack with an LLM

While I mentioned a few weeks back that I'm now recovering from AI Psychosis, that doesn't mean I've given up on the technology completely. I'm writing more emails, and engaging with human beings as much as I can, and that [...]

Halloween Movies Watch List 2026

All right, I'm a bit late this year, but our family tradition of watching scary[-ish] movies in October is alive and well. Sadly, the LA Angels missed the playoffs just like last year. Super hopeful for the 2027 season though [...]

Pros and Cons of Self-hosting a Public Git Forge

It's been over a year since I mostly broke up with GitHub. In that year, I've been running my own public Forgejo instance for my personal projects. It's important to stress the public part, as most of what I'm going [...]

Confessions of a Middle-Aged Domain Hoarder

I personally own well over 100 domains. A select few of them are actually live. The rest? Parked, forwarded, or none of the above. These domains cost me real money. For whatever reason, I've chosen to be loyal to a [...]

Rediscovering Long-Form Email

From humble beginnings in eLearning, I have somehow spent the majority of my career thus far in or around email. Not to flex, but I am an email expert. Cold, hot, and everything in between. I'm one of very few [...]

I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid

As a child, you drink Kool-Aid. Then somewhere along the way, you stop. Maybe you switch to sugary sodas your parents never let you drink. Realizing it's just sugar water, you switch to a healthier option. For me, it took [...]

New pic, who dis?

Another week, another chance to struggle with a blog topic. I just got off of a whirlwind of a couple of weeks. An 11-state road trip to get our daughter off to college. A first-time empty nester vacation. Trying as [...]

I ran my agents from my phone for two weeks

The last two weeks of my life have been quite transient. More so than the time I hopped a plane to San Francisco, interviewed for 5 hours, and hopped back on a plane back to Florida the same evening. The [...]

Security Caveat: Locked out of my server while traveling

I'm still on my self-hosting kick as of late, while also questioning my life choices around hosting my own git forge. The last week or so has included what appears to be a DDoS attack rather than some coordinated scraping [...]

Last Saturday

I've had a lot going on recently. So much so that I'm questioning whether or not it's the right time to finally break the blogging streak. I think about this regularly, and tend to blog about it when I'm having [...]