blog.

writing about devops, hardware, the slow death of weird websites, and occasionally my body. infrequent. unedited. no editor will ever fix that.

• 2026.04.18

  computers got too polite

  every interface now sounds like a flight attendant who has been instructed never to say anything useful.

  rantFUTURE
  6 min →
• 2026.02.11

  against the engagement metric

  on running a personal site with one number that goes up sometimes. (it is the uptime counter.)

  rantmetaFUTURE
  5 min →
• 2025.09.20

  i am not an ms warrior

  on the language of chronic illness. i am not battling anything. i am just tired.

  personal
  11 min →
• 2025.09.08

  sdam, and living without recall

  severely deficient autobiographical memory. what it's like to remember the facts but not the moment.

  personal
  21 min →
• 2025.09.06

  taming mcp madness with metamcp and tailscale

  one mcp server to rule them all. plus a tailnet. plus a bad mood.

  opsbuild
  17 min →
• 2025.08.26

  neurakink

  a survey of consumer eeg headsets and the people doing weird things with them. yes that includes me.

  hardwarenerd
  15 min →
• 2025.08.21

  not everyone can use a vpn

  a reminder that the threat model behind "just use mullvad" is privileged on its face.

  rantpolitics
  5 min →
• 2025.04.28

  ai knows just how to manipulate you

  on the slow normalisation of having a chatbot grade your homework / your therapist / your day.

  rant
  9 min →
• 2025.04.15

  microcommissioning

  paying $20 for a small weird thing that didn't exist yesterday. the best money i spend.

  rant
  4 min →
• 2025.04.11

  good times in the shell

  fish, fisher, tide, atuin, eza, fzf, mise, opencommit. the cull, the survivors. a long love letter.

  shellnerd
  20 min →
• 2025.03.27

  genderbase

  why i built a directory of gender-affirming resources. the tech is the easy part.

  buildpolitics
  6 min →
• 2025.01.23

  reproductiverights.gov

  a domain that became a battleground. on what disappears when an administration decides it should.

  rantpolitics
  14 min →
• 2025.01.20

  how i turned notion into a blog

  the original sin. before this very rewrite. cron jobs and webhooks. would not recommend.

  build
  18 min →
• 2025.01.16

  prometheus is cool and good

  metrics, dashboards, and the sweet sound of a homelab finally telling on itself.

  ops
  12 min →
• 2025.01.15

  we have to call the police: flying with a flipper zero

  TSA does not have a sense of humour. neither do i, anymore.

  rant
  5 min →
• 2025.01.14

  getting started with meshtastic

  lora radios, $40, and a small mesh of friends pretending the internet doesn't exist.

  hardware
  7 min →
• 2025.01.13

  0x5f3759df: a true magic number

  fast inverse square root, the line of code that taught a generation of game devs to fear math.

  nerd
  6 min →