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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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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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