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Fallacies of AI-driven product research

The customer is always right. But what if the customer was lied to? If a sales person over promises, and the product under delivers, the customer won't be happy. This often leads to a cancellation and refund request. But what [...]

Notes on Diablo IV's Eternal Realm after 10 Seasons

I've been playing Diablo IV since launch, having partaken in every season since the first. That was until season 9, when I opted to continue my lovely Torment 4 Necromantress in the Eternal Realm rather than chase this season's "collect [...]

AI Coding Tools I Use to Ship Faster - Q4 2025

Back in June I wrote about the AI coding tools that I was using to be productive. Fast forward through Q3, a lot has changed in the market. Newer tools and shinier LLMs, sometimes both in the same week. I'm [...]

Halloween Movies Watch List 2025

With baseball season nearly over (for our beloved Angels at least), spooky season is nearly upon us. Loving seasonal holiday content, we typically will binge episodes of our favorite TV shows, and will watch some scary movies during October and [...]

Real-time Web Analytics with GoAccess

My mission to gain more technical independence has me questioning any and all third-party services I use. While I do value having visibility into my websites traffic, relying on Google for anything has been top of my mind during this [...]

Stop Overcomplicating Sea-Monkeys

I have fond memories of Sea-Monkeys as a kid. I had them, but I don't remember any success with them. Maybe it was a bad batch, maybe I over fed them, who freakin' knows at this point. Fast forward to [...]

Category and Tag Pages with Eleventy

After switching from WordPress to Eleventy (11ty) earlier this year, I'm still playing catch up on a few things. One such thing, is getting category and tag pages setup again. With Jekyll, I had setup a series of individual pages [...]

End of the World Carnitas

I remember it like it was yesterday. My daughter and I, on our usual Saturday grocery store run. We're at HEB Plus! on the eve of the end of the world. We were fully aware of COVID-19, but trying to [...]

Perceived Personality in Generative AI

I talk to robots... a lot. Because of this, I don't take the stock "personality" at face value. I try to dial things in, sometimes fun and flirty, other times cold and direct. I treat it like a visual novel [...]

A week with Cursor Agent CLI

It feels like every week, there's either a new LLM version or new AI coding tool or both. It's freakin' exhausting, so I try to be selective about which tools I dabble with. When I do venture from my usual [...]