Best Practices Are Engineering Anathema
Abandon 'best practices' and start making your own decisions.
2025-06-21
#essay
Implementing Some New Blog Improvements
Uplifting the blog with image optimization, preview components, tagging, filtering, and rich previews.
2025-06-20
#dev
Aquarium Engineering
DIY display-refugium system with an ecosystem of bacteria, plants, shrimp, and fish.
2024-08-22
#diy
Career Lessons
Reflections five years working.
2024-05-25
#essay
Moving this Blog to Astro (ft. Cloudflare R2 & Pages)
Rebuilding the blog from the ground-up using Astro.
2024-04-18
#dev#ops
First Impressions of the Framework Laptop
Getting started with a Framework Laptop 13. It's fine.
2023-10-25
#gadget
Launching a 2009 RuneScape Server
Deploying a 2009 RuneScape server for nostalgia, but not before ranting about the game’s downfall.
2023-07-09
#ops
Building a Go Discord Bot to Manage AWS EC2
Developing a Discord bot to uh... turn servers off and on again.
2023-04-01
#dev#ops
Making a Tailscale VPN for On-The-Go Ad Blocking
Personal ad-blocking VPN with Tailscale.
2023-01-15
#ops
Developing Cadence: Self-Hosted Web Radio Suite
My 5-years-running self-hosted web radio suite project.
2022-11-08
#dev
Building a Kubernetes Mini Cluster with Raspberry Pis
My triple-node Raspberry Pi K3s mini cluster.
2022-09-25
#ops