People hear “rural Georgia” and picture a guy fixing printers. The reality is a lot more complicated, and the gap between assumption and truth says more about the tech industry than it does about small towns.

Exchange Hybrid isn’t a migration strategy — it’s an architecture you move into and sometimes never leave. After 16 years managing it for a major health system, here’s what it actually looks like from the inside.

Systems engineers and developers aren’t just using different tools, they’re running different operating systems in their heads. The sooner both sides admit that, the better the work gets.

I run both Authelia and Authentik in production — not because I couldn’t pick one, but because I learned the hard way that they’re solving different problems. Here’s what the comparison guides won’t tell you.

Every shortcut I took setting up my homelab made sense at the time. Six months later, I was untangling decisions I barely remembered making — and that’s the real cost nobody talks about.

Most people think about their next tattoo. I’ve started thinking about the whole wall — and that shift changes everything about how you choose what goes on your skin permanently.

I set up an auto-writer plugin to generate posts for Knuckledust Chronicles using a detailed document about my life. What I got back was technically accurate and weirdly hollow — and that gap taught me something I wasn’t expecting.

DDLs in Exchange look like they solve the membership problem automatically. They do. They just solve it on their own schedule, using logic you probably haven’t read in six months.

I’ve made over a thousand songs with Suno. The ones that surprised me most weren’t the best ones technically, they were the ones that told me something about myself I wasn’t expecting.

The skills that kept you employed in 2005 aren’t the ones keeping people employed in 2025. Some of that shift is obvious. The part nobody talks about is more uncomfortable.