Most people see late-night server builds as a sleep problem. I’ve started thinking of mine as a scheduling solution — and the evidence backs me up.

Five years ago I was busy every single evening and had almost nothing to show for it. Turns out there’s a difference between working on things and working toward something.

I’ve worn a lot of labels over the decades: hardware guy, IT veteran, self-taught coder, grandfather. None of them tell the whole story, and some of them are starting to feel like clothes that don’t fit anymore.

Chuck Norris wasn’t just an action star for Southern Gen-X boys, he was a confirmation of everything we were already being raised to believe. Losing him stirs something that goes a lot deeper than nostalgia.

Seven Royal Caribbean cruises, and the hardest part was never the packing. It was figuring out how to be a person who isn’t useful for a week.

Blogging in 2026 feels about as culturally relevant as owning a fax machine. Here’s why I do it anyway, and why the reason probably isn’t what you’d expect.

The industry spent twenty years building a mythology around who belongs in technology. Most of it was never true, and the parts that were true stopped being true a long time ago.

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.

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.

Tech culture has a loud minority running the microphone, and most of the people actually building things have stopped trying to compete with the volume. That’s a problem worth talking about.