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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

Every request that touches anything I run hits Cloudflare first. Before my Hetzner box even knows there’s traffic coming, Cloudflare has already inspected it, decided whether to pass it through…

Running a $5/month VPS on AWS will cost you closer to $35 before you’ve added a static IP, decent storage, and a data transfer allowance that doesn’t make you sweat…

It Started With a Broken Docker Compose File at 11pm Three services wouldn’t talk to each other. The network names looked right. The environment variables were set. The logs said…

AI music can technically do almost everything now. Tempo, key, arrangement, timbre, dynamics. It can fake grief and fake joy and fake longing. The question nobody in the hype cycle wants to sit with is whether any of that is actually happening.

Frank asked an AI to help figure out what his blog should be. That’s either genuinely smart or a quiet admission that content strategy has become so abstracted from actual humans that a machine is now the most honest voice in the room.