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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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People who didn't grow up with guns spend a lot of time arguing about them in the abstract. I didn't, so I won't.
May 2, 2026

Georgia Born, Georgia Armed: What Guns Actually Mean Around Here

People who didn’t grow up with guns spend a lot of time arguing about them in the abstract. I didn’t, so I won’t.

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There's a whole class of American car that never made the glossy magazine covers, never got the restoration budget, and never got the respect, until somebody figured out you could get a twenty-foot land yacht for three grand and have the coolest thing in the parking lot.
May 2, 2026

Led Sleds, Hooptys, and the Cars Nobody Wanted Until They Did

There’s a whole class of American car that never made the glossy magazine covers, never got the restoration budget, and never got the respect, until somebody figured out you could get a twenty-foot land yacht for three grand and have the coolest thing in the parking lot.

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May 2, 2026

How the Whole Ranch Runs: One Request’s Journey From Browser to Billed User

Every request is a little miracle when you think about it. One second a person is staring at a browser tab. The next, they’ve authenticated, unlocked a feature, handed over…

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May 2, 2026

Supabase Auth: Letting Strangers Through the Door Without Handing Them the Keys

The Fastest Way to Lose a User’s Trust Is to Lose Their Password I don’t store passwords. Not in my apps, not in my databases, not in environment variables I’ll…

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May 2, 2026

Stripe: Taking Money Without Losing Your Mind or Your Margins

The first time I tried to wire up payments, I spent three days reading Stripe docs, built a checkout flow I was genuinely proud of, deployed it, and then watched…

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