I Gave My Bots Names and My Homepage Forgot the News
Three days, three unrelated systems, and exactly one of the bugs was mine.
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The Outfit Engine Said No to Everything, and Three of My Sites Were Lying to Google
Two things this week: a personal app I’m building broke in an interesting way, and I found the same kind of quiet failure hiding on three different websites I run.
I built a truck-hunting machine, then bought a truck and killed it
Six months, 1,058 Tacomas, 487 parsed dealer emails, and one uncomfortable lesson about where the value in a scraper actually lives. It isn’t the parser.
Two of seven make money
Pottydirectory took three months to stand up the first time.
We Moved Our Anniversary
What twenty years of marriage teaches you about grief, new rules, and getting matching tattoos.
The Consumer Week
What happens when a builder gets sick, stops building, and plays Assassin’s Creed for four days straight.
Book club for men. Like Fight Club, but with books.
Four things shipped this week. Two are the work. One came from a viral seafood boycott. And a burn-on-read tool became a client asset overnight.
Why I Use Claude and Not ChatGPT
My family thinks I’m being difficult.
I Shipped 10 Products in 90 Days. Here's What I Have to Show for It.
Six months ago I had a corporate job, a neglected personal site, and a vague idea that I should build something of my own.
The centurion, the challenge, and the long walk home
I’ve been reading Luke this week, tracing Jesus’s footsteps on a map.