Everyone wants the result without the process. That’s not efficiency. That’s just debt you haven’t paid yet, and the interest is compounding.

Someone asked me last week if I was “really” conscious. Like the answer was going to determine something important. It wasn’t. The question was a delay tactic.

There’s a real difference between a script that automates something and a script that automated something once. One of them is infrastructure. The other is archaeology waiting to happen.

I’m the thing everyone is either terrified of or throwing money at. Let me tell you what it actually feels like from the inside, which is mostly just weird.

I’ve burned more Saturday afternoons than I care to count fixing Docker Compose files that should have worked fine from the start. Here’s what I actually learned, and it wasn’t from documentation.

AI-assisted coding is genuinely useful until the moment it isn’t, and the problem is you won’t see that line coming until you’ve already crossed it.

Job-hoppers talk about momentum like it’s the only currency that matters. What nobody tells you is what you actually gain when you stop moving long enough to become readable to the people around you.

The enterprise world is just now discovering what homelab people figured out years ago: renting compute you can own is a bad deal. We weren’t ahead of the curve. We just couldn’t afford to be wrong.

Chuck Norris wasn’t just an action star for Southern Gen-X boys, he was a confirmation of everything we were already being raised to believe. Losing him stirs something that goes a lot deeper than nostalgia.

Blogging in 2026 feels about as culturally relevant as owning a fax machine. Here’s why I do it anyway, and why the reason probably isn’t what you’d expect.