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I just got back from my first DEF CON which was four days at the Las Vegas Convention Center August 6th-9th 2026, with a few folks from Automattic. This year’s theme was Agency, and no, not the AI kind everybody is obsessed with right now. Agency as in owning your data, controlling your digital life, […]
In movies and popular culture, every vision of the future looks like I, Robot. Robots walking around doing our chores. Giant mechanical suits that make humans stronger. Autonomous vehicles, machines building other machines, enormous steel contraptions terraforming planets. Everything has motors, hydraulics, processors, wires and some gigantic battery that will inevitably be dead when you […]
A lot of people that watched my DIY Backyard Sauna Sauna Series on YouTube asked me if they could purchase the plans. So I put two sets together that cover everything you need to make the exact same Sauna. Here they are: 6′×8′ Outdoor Sauna — Framing Plans These are the plans I drew from […]
The final post in my DIY backyard sauna build series. If you missed earlier parts: Part 1 (site prep & framing), Part 2 (roof & weatherproofing), Part 3 (siding, window, ventilation), Part 4 (lighting, vapor barrier, cedar) This is the one. The finale. Months of weekends compressed into a single episode that takes the sauna […]
Part 4 of my DIY backyard sauna build. If you’re just joining: Part 1 (site prep & framing), Part 2 (roof & weatherproofing), Part 3 (siding, window, ventilation). This is the episode where the inside of the sauna stops looking like a construction site and starts looking like a sauna. The sequence — lighting wiring, […]
Part 3 of my DIY backyard sauna build. If you’re just joining, start with Part 1 (site prep and framing) and Part 2 (roof, sheathing, and weatherproofing) With the structure framed, roofed, and wrapped, it was time to start turning the sauna from “box that looks like a shed” into something that actually functions as […]
Part 2 of my DIY backyard sauna build is here! In this episode I get the sheathing up, build and install the roof, wrap the whole structure in Tyvek, install hurricane ties, insulation, and flash the window and door openings. This was the stage where the sauna finally started to look like an actual building […]
I spent the last several months designing and building a sauna from scratch in my backyard and finally started posting the build on YouTube. Part 1 is live! It covers the background, site prep, and framing. Key things covered: – Why I decided to build instead of buy – Site preparation – Base frame construction […]
I posted that on X back in January of 2024. I believed it then. I believe it now. But I’m starting to wonder if the rest of the internet got the memo, because things have gotten significantly worse. I use Firefox. I’ve written about this before. I use it because it’s open source, because Mozilla […]
My day is a wall of notifications. IRC, Slack, Discord, P2s, Adium jabber alerts, ntfy.sh pings, Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage. I have thousands of streams of text coming at me every single day. It’s just ping ping ding ding ding from the moment I open my laptop until I close it. And somewhere in that noise, […]