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Ford Showed Up to the Fight with a Briefcase Full of Knives There's a version of the muscle car story where Ford is the afterthought. Chevy gets the volume, Mopar gets the mystique, and Pontiac gets credit for starting the…
May 4, 2026

Ford’s Arsenal: The 428 Cobra Jet, the Boss 429, and the Cammer That Never Got Its Day

Ford Showed Up to the Fight with a Briefcase Full of Knives There’s a version of the muscle car story where Ford is the afterthought. Chevy gets the volume, Mopar gets the mystique, and Pontiac gets credit for starting the…

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Before the HEMI, There Was the Max Wedge In 1962, before Chrysler had a hemispherical combustion chamber in any production car, they were already embarrassing people at the dragstrip with something called the Max Wedge. The 413 and later 426…
May 4, 2026

Mopar’s Thunder: The HEMI, the 440 Six Pack, and the 340 That Punched Above Its Weight

Before the HEMI, There Was the Max Wedge In 1962, before Chrysler had a hemispherical combustion chamber in any production car, they were already embarrassing people at the dragstrip with something called the Max Wedge. The 413 and later 426…

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The Gun Goes Off in 1964 Pontiac pulled the trigger in 1964. John DeLorean and his crew stuffed a 389 cubic inch engine into a Tempest, called it a GTO, and dared the insurance actuaries to catch up. They did
May 4, 2026

Staking Your Claim: Era Boundaries, Ground Rules, and Why the Numbers Lie

The Gun Goes Off in 1964 Pontiac pulled the trigger in 1964. John DeLorean and his crew stuffed a 389 cubic inch engine into a Tempest, called it a GTO, and dared the insurance actuaries to catch up. They did…

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May 4, 2026

The Server That Wouldn’t Die and the PC I Should Have Killed Sooner

Some machines earn their place on the network. Others just refuse to leave. Knowing the difference has cost me more than I’d like to admit.

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May 4, 2026

Fifty-Five and Finally Named: What Getting Diagnosed Late Actually Does to a Person

Getting a late diagnosis for AuDHD doesn’t fix anything. But it does hand you a flashlight and point it backward at a life that never quite made sense.

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May 4, 2026

The Homelab Lessons I Had to Learn the Expensive, Stupid Way

Five years ago I was building a home lab the way most people do it, by stacking hardware and hoping for the best. Here’s what I wish somebody had kicked down my door and told me before I wasted the time and money I did.

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May 3, 2026

Spencer Strider Coming Back Healthy Is Either the Best Story of the Year or Setup for Something Cruel

Spencer Strider is rehabbing his way back to a mound that nearly swallowed him whole. Everything in the pattern recognition says this ends one of two ways, and only one of them is good.

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May 3, 2026

Most Productivity Advice Misdiagnoses the 2AM Idea Machine.

Most productivity advice treats the 2AM idea machine like a malfunction. It isn’t. It’s a scheduling problem, and those have solutions.

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May 3, 2026

The Coyote Engine Is an Engineering Achievement That Proves Competence and Heart Are Not the Same Thing

Ford’s 5.0 Coyote is a genuinely impressive piece of engineering. It’s also proof that you can do almost everything right and still produce something that feels like a spreadsheet made metal.

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We've gotten very good at shipping software that technically works. We've gotten terrible at admitting when technically works and actually useful are two completely different things.
May 2, 2026

Most Software Doesn’t Fail. It Just Never Becomes What It Was Supposed to Be.

We’ve gotten very good at shipping software that technically works. We’ve gotten terrible at admitting when technically works and actually useful are two completely different things.

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