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How I read more books

I used to devour books as a kid but slowed down after I graduated college for some reason. I think it's partially because I read an article once-upon-a-time that your bed should only be for sleeping (and spousal appreciation). I used to read before bed…

Wiggle wiggle

I saw a fun post on Hacker News about creating wigglegrams, and decided to try it for myself. Since I live in the Google ecosystem, I had Claude rewrite the code for Google Photos support. However, because of some limitations to the Google API: Since…

Building and hosting a website in less than 3 minutes

I recently wrote about building a website in minutes, and now it's even faster. As in, literally 4 minutes and 22 seconds. Cloudflare released the ability for agents to deploy with temporary accounts. Using my example from the other post, that means you can pop…

How to build a website and host it in minutes

I've written a lot about how I built this website, but making websites has gotten even easier over time. A friend of mine came to me with a logo and asked, "I want to build a website for this junk hauling business. Can you make…

Yes, we still need engineers

Prototyping has done wonders for speeding up software delivery. I start with a clone of our UI repository and open Claude Code. I'll prompt it to help me add a button (or whatever), set up some test data, and record a demo of a full…

Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer (Gen 2) Review

Somehow, I avoided wearing glasses until I was 36 years old. I had seen optometrists, I have a prescription, and I wore cheap prescription glasses for nighttime driving. But it wasn't until 2026 that my eye doc said, "You really should be wearing glasses all…

I can't in good conscience recommend the Meater BBQ probes

A digital thermometer is the most important tool in a cook’s arsenal. Thermometers save lives and money. AmazingRibs.com Meater probes sound like God's gift to BBQ thermometers: it's wireless, it has a slick app, it estimates variable cooking times, and you can even make cool…

Google finally decided to start indexing my site

The world of SEO is a strange and mysterious place. That's my takeaway after writing on my site for over a year now. I never intended for this site to become an SEO-optimized destination, but it's been a frustrating journey getting Google to index my…

Checking in on owning an Electric Vehicle after 1.5 years

At the end of September 2024, I leased a Nissan Leaf for a song. In April 2026, how is it holding up? Do I still like it? Would I get another one? Let's dive into some stats about how it's going. The amount I've driven…

Cutting GitHub from my site's deployment workflow

I've been using Publii to manage my site but apparently my site is too big for GitHub anymore. Any time I try to update my site and upload to GitHub, I get a 502 error. Pretty frustrating. That GitHub endpoint times out because there's simply…