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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 [...]

How to rotate log files with logrotate

Part of the fun of self-hosting is making sure you follow best practices and don't shoot yourself in the foot. One of those tasks is making sure things are backed up, ideally to an off-site location (I use S3), and [...]

You Might Not Need Plugins: WordPress Login Security with Fail2Ban

Becoming an insufferable self-hosting zealot has its ups and downs. Dealing with all of the bad actors in the world is a complete downer. That is, until you deploy a solution and get that hit of dopamine as you watch [...]

AI Code Completion is Cognitive Castration

AI code completion. It's great right? You sit down, open up some file, navigate to a line of code. BOOM! Like magic, a dozen or more lines of code show up. You give them a quick glance, maybe try running [...]