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April 30, 2026

Nobody Told Me the First One Sets the Ceiling

I got my first tattoo at 52 and made every mistake in slow motion. Here’s what I’d tell myself if I could go back to that parlor chair.

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April 30, 2026

I Spent 55 Years Not Knowing My Brain Was Wired Different

Getting diagnosed with AuDHD at 55 doesn’t rewrite your past. It just finally explains it, which is both a relief and its own kind of grief.

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April 29, 2026

The Homelab Way: Running WordPress in Docker Behind a Caddy Reverse Proxy

Most people run WordPress like it’s 2008, and they pay for it every time they need to move or update anything. Here’s how Docker, MariaDB, Redis, and Caddy turn a traditionally brittle setup into something you can migrate in fifteen minutes flat.

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April 29, 2026

Bass Fishing Before Sunrise Is a Silence That Requires Zero Explanation to Anyone Who Has Experienced It

There’s a cost to getting on the water before daylight that nobody puts in the brochure. The silence is real. So is everything you give up to get there.

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April 29, 2026

The Engineer Who Still Writes Code Is Getting Rarer and That Should Scare Someone

Somewhere between the org chart expansions and the process certifications, the people who could actually build things started disappearing. We replaced them with people who manage the people who manage the tools.

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April 29, 2026

Kade’s First Masters Is Going to Be Something (for PopPop)!

He won’t remember it. He was too young. But I’ll remember every single second of it, and that’s the whole point.

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April 29, 2026

The Stand-Up Meeting Was Supposed to Be Short and Now It Has Subtasks

The stand-up was invented to replace meetings. Somewhere along the way, it became one. And nobody involved seems to notice the irony.

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Every car company on earth has tried to bottle what Detroit did between 1964 and 1972. Every single one of them has failed. And the reason is something they could never admit out loud. Guest Contributor
April 29, 2026

Detroit Built Feelings in the Late Sixties and Called Them Cars

Every car company on earth has tried to bottle what Detroit did between 1964 and 1972. Every single one of them has failed. And the reason is something they could never admit out loud.

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April 28, 2026

The Gear I Bought First Was Almost Never the Gear I Needed

Five years ago I was spending money on equipment I hadn’t earned yet. Here’s what I wish someone had just said out loud.

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April 28, 2026

The Bulldogs Between the Hedges and the Bulldogs on the Road Are Sometimes Playing Different Sports and I Can Prove It with My Blood Pressure

UGA at home is a different organism than UGA on the road, and my cardiovascular system has the receipts. This isn’t about talent. It’s about something uglier.

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"I spent three hours last weekend arguing with my truck about whether it wanted to start, and you know what? The truck won that argument, but at least one of us learned something about ourselves."

— A Truck Owner's Diary, Page 47, Coffee Stain Obscuring the Rest

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