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March 15, 2026

I Stopped Trying to Explain Myself to the Algorithm

At 55, I’ve made peace with being a guy who doesn’t fit cleanly into any category the internet has invented for people like me. That peace took longer than it should have.

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March 15, 2026

Flash Was Just a Dog (Except He Wasn’t)

Flash, our Miniature Dachshund, lived 16 years in this house and left a hole that doesn’t make sense on paper. This is an honest account of what that actually means.

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March 15, 2026

Your Data Isn’t Yours If You Can’t Walk Out the Door With It

Any tech company that makes exporting your own data difficult, confusing, or impossible is telling you something important about how they see you. Listen to them.

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March 14, 2026

Optimus, Scooby, and Megatron Walk Into a Network: Why Every Machine on My Homelab Has a Name

I don’t use hostnames like SERVER01 or DESKTOP-A4F2C. Every machine on my network has a real name, a personality, and a reason it got that name. Here’s the system behind it.

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March 14, 2026

The Barbell Doesn’t Care How Good You Used to Be

After a long break from the gym, I’m back under the bar at 55 — and the thing that surprised me most wasn’t how much strength I’d lost. It was how honest the whole process is.

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March 14, 2026

Nobody Assumes You’re Running Exchange Hybrid From a Town With Four Stoplights

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.

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March 13, 2026

Exchange Hybrid Is the Mullet of Enterprise IT: Business in the Cloud, Party On-Prem

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.

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March 13, 2026

We Will Never Fully Understand Each Other (And That’s Fine, Actually)

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.

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March 13, 2026

Authelia vs. Authentik: The Tradeoffs Nobody Warns You About Upfront

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.

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March 13, 2026

My Homelab Has a Debt Problem (And It’s Not the Kind You Pay Off With Money)

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.

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