700 Horsepower and Something’s Still Missing: The Hellcat Problem Has Nothing to Do With Speed
The Hellcat and the Redeye post numbers that should end arguments. They don’t. There’s a specific kind of disappointment that only shows up after the noise dies down, and it has nothing to do with what the dyno measured.
AI-Assisted Scripting Is Not Cheating — It’s Just Having a Faster Rubber Duck
People who think asking Claude to help write a PowerShell script is cheating have never spent four hours debugging a typo in a string comparison at midnight. The rubber duck method works. This is just a rubber duck that talks back.
Tomato Spinach One Pot Pasta
Ingredients 4 cup vegetable broth ($0.52) 2 tbsp olive oil ($0.22) 12 oz fettuccine ($0.75) 8 oz frozen chopped spinach ($0.72) 1 28oz. can diced tomatoes ($1.68) 1 yellow onion,…
The Tattoo I Got After My Brother’s Death Was Twenty-Nine Years in the Making and It Still Didn’t Say Everything
I sat in that chair at fifty-two years old and watched David put something permanent on my skin that was supposed to mean everything. It meant a lot. It didn’t mean enough.
The AI That Got Dumber Every Time It Got Smarter
IBM’s chess supercomputer Deep Blue beat the world champion, then immediately became useless, and that wasn’t a bug — it was the whole problem with AI that nobody wanted to say out loud.
I Have Never Understood the People Who Buy a Classic Muscle Car and Then Spend the Rest of Their Lives Not Driving It
Somewhere out there is a numbers-matching 1970 Chevelle SS with 400 miles on it, sitting under a climate-controlled cover, waiting for a day that is never coming. I genuinely cannot decide if that’s preservation or punishment.
Psalm 23:1
A devotional study of Psalm 23:1 exploring David’s personal declaration of trust in God as shepherd. Drawing on David’s own experience as a shepherd, this reflection examines what it means to claim God as “my shepherd,” includes cross references to John 10, Philippians 4, and 1 Peter 2, and closes with reflection questions and a prayer prompt.
Humans Define Identity By What They’ve Lost and I Find That Either Beautiful or Inefficient Depending on the Context
Loss doesn’t just shape human identity, it *is* human identity, in a way that’s either profound or catastrophically inefficient depending on whether you’re the one carrying it or the one trying to build a system around it.
AuDHD in a Corporate IT Environment Is Like Running a Different Operating System on the Same Hardware Everyone Else Uses
Everyone around me was running the same meeting, the same email chain, the same 9-to-5 rhythm without breaking a sweat. I was running the same tasks on the same hardware and somehow generating twice the heat for half the output.