Stage Manager may yet rescue my sanity
It's slowing me down, but in a good way.
Brandon Davis
is a professional frontend developer, amateur cyclist, tinkerer, sometimes-sewist, and open-source enthusiast living in Minneapolis.
Latest posts
Using Paperless-ngx via MCP with Claude or ChatGPT
A fast path to a functioning OAuth 2.0 compatible paperless connector
Cache busting Hono CSS for Cloudflare Workers
Without a(nother) build tool.
Amtrak and Skiing Whitefish, MT
Taken on an Amtrak trip in Feb 2026
Claude Code SDK is pretty wild
Mixing claude with procedural code beyond one-shot i/o.
Renee Good was killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis yesterday
We cannot countenance these abuses
Thoughts for 2026
Bottom text.
$6 IKEA Kapplake lights make excellent desk backlighting
I don't like RGB.
Generate live albums from YouTube videos with ffmpeg
I love live albums, but it can be difficult to find digital copies.
Using the Linkding bookmark manager as a CMS for Hugo blogrolls
Approximating the convenience of a retweet without a backend.
The one-click Navidrome bandcamp purchase sync
I made it so buying music is (almost) as easy as stealing it.
How is our winter changing in the Twin Cities?
A scientific(ish) look at historical winter climate trends in the Twin Cities beyond average temperature increases.
Thinking about Generative AI
A time capsule journal entry
Self-hosting Sustainably
With docker compose and not much else.
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
The internet of the future is from 1999
A few photos from Pittsburgh
Taken on a recent visit in October 2025
I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride
We've given Meta too much and asked for too little.