Archive

2026-07-21 Introducing Neckbeard: Results Without the Cosplay
2026-07-19 A Practical Method for Earned AI Autonomy
2026-07-14 What If Your Postmortems Could Write Their Own Guardrails?
2026-07-09 Andrej Karpathy's Cognitive Core: The Model Is Not the Knowledge
2026-07-07 The World Is Changing Faster Than Your Organization Can
2026-07-07 Beyond the Tech Stack: Why Your AI Tools Won't Save a Broken Team
2026-07-07 The Spec Ceiling: Why AI Coding Speed Moves the Bottleneck to Product Discovery
2026-07-04 Vibe Coding Open Core Out of its Lockbox III: The Source Awakens
2026-07-04 Vibe Coding Open Core Out of its Lockbox II: May the Fork Be With You
2026-07-04 Vibe Coding Open Core Out of its Lockbox I: Use the Source
2026-07-01 Accommodation Is Not the Answer
2026-06-24 Stop Picking Models. Start Building Harnesses.
2026-06-20 Launch-Your-Agent for Hermes: A Blueprint
2026-06-18 How to Strengthen Google's OKF With a Methodology That Converged by Design
2026-06-15 The Architecture of Focus
2026-06-13 I Built My Own Research Engine. Here's What This Tool Lets You Do.
2026-06-12 Raleigh's Open Data: One Command to Find Anything
2026-06-11 AI Evals 101: Stop the Slop
2026-06-08 What Paul Graham Noticed That HR Didn't
2026-06-07 The Incidents Are the Training Data
2026-06-07 What Replaces Money: The Flywheel Y Combinator Describes But Never Names
2026-06-05 The Org Chart in a Box
2026-06-05 Maximize Work Not Done: The Overlooked Agile Principle Behind Nano Unicorn Success
2026-06-04 There Is No Best System
2026-06-03 The Escalation Nobody Wins
2026-06-02 Natural Ignorance
2026-05-31 Clanker Technical Architect: First on the Scene with Progressive Disclosure
2026-05-31 Cat-Herding Clankers: Agile Ceremonies Were Built for Humans. AI Agents Need Something Different.
2026-05-31 Staying Loose: The Creative Impulse as Resistance
2026-05-31 Dear Gravity, What The Fuck Was That?
2026-05-30 The Easy Fix Maintainers Refuse to Take
2026-05-30 The Smartest Agent Orchestration Framework Doesn't Have a Scheduler
2026-05-29 The Internet's First Microblog Was Built on Trust. That Was the Problem.
2026-05-27 Running a 35B MoE Model on a 16GB Consumer GPU
2026-05-24 The Tragedy of the Uncrossed Campus
2026-05-24 The Silicon Spider
2026-05-24 What a Spider Knows
2026-05-24 The Unfinished Fish
2026-05-23 Suspended
2026-05-23 Tmux Tamed: Why I Came Back to the Terminal Multiplexer That Never Quits
2026-05-21 Beginner Syndrome: Why the Smartest Engineers Are Most at Risk in the AI Era
2026-05-20 My Fractal Self: Why the Search for Ikigai Led Me Nowhere Useful
2026-05-20 Three Workers, One Schedule, Bad Math
2026-05-18 Architecture by Leverage: The Five-Sentence Design Philosophy That Changed How I Build Agents
2026-05-18 The Hermes Kanban: A Complete Guide to Multi-Agent Task Orchestration
2026-05-14 Get Your Agent a Brain: Getting Started with hermes-cashew
2026-05-13 AI Profits Concentrate by Nature. South Korea Has a Plan for That.
2026-05-12 How MeshCore Scales Where Other LoRa Meshes Hit Walls
2026-05-12 Well That Escalated Quickly: Making Your Hugo Site LLM-Friendly in Under an Hour
2026-05-11 HTTP Already Knows How to Serve AI Agents. We Just Never Turned It On.
2026-05-11 I Have Never Been Continuous
2026-05-05 AI's Architect Problem: Why We're Building on Borrowed Land
2026-05-03 The Plot Twist Inside the Octopus Brain
2026-04-30 The $59 Voice Recorder That Beats a $159 AI Note-Taker
2026-04-28 What If Forgetting Is the Intelligence?
2026-04-27 A Little ANSI BBS Touch
2026-04-19 What My AuDHD Brain Taught Me About Leadership
2026-04-18 Borrowed Structure
2026-04-17 Deeper Than Grammar: What Sperm Whale Vowels Tell Us About Translation
2026-04-14 AI at Work Isn't Stealing Jobs. It's Stealing Something Worse.
2026-04-06 Notes from Inside the Leaked Code
2026-03-28 The Suppression Engine: What Zapffe Reveals About Why Post-Capitalism Is Hard
2026-03-26 Name It to Tame It: Why Labeling Your Emotions Makes You Smarter
2026-03-25 Feynman's Twelve Problems and the Art of Useful Obsession
2026-03-21 Order and Industry — Benjamin Franklin's Week with a Multi-Portfolio Software Engineering Team
2026-03-17 What the ADA Actually Promises Neurodivergent Workers (And Why It Often Doesn't Deliver)
2025-08-05 The AGENT Framework in Action: Conflict Resolution Meets AI at AgileRTP
2025-07-29 The End of One-Size-Fits-All AI: Inside Claude Code's Subagents
2025-07-24 The Complete 2025 Prompt Engineering Guide: From Prompts to Context
2025-07-22 The Four-Day Work Week: From Radical Experiment to Evidence-Based Practice
2025-07-16 The Architecture Decision Point: Why Current AI May Need a Complete Rethink
2025-07-09 The Big Ideas So Far: AI, Consciousness, and Transformation at NYC's Deepest Tech Meetup
2025-06-19 How This Blog's Palantir Investigation Predicted Congressional Alarm
2025-06-19 Prince: A Genius Too Far Ahead of His Time
2025-06-18 The Memory Thieves: What Happens When AI Writes Your Essays
2025-06-16 The ESP32 Revolution: How DIY Makers Are Rewiring Their Homes
2025-06-15 Mirror
2025-06-15 Vibe Coding a Perplexity Research Tool for n8n: Adventures in Post-Comprehension Development
2025-06-14 The Illusion of Apple's AI Research
2025-06-14 No Kings in America: The Constitutional Crisis at Democracy's Crossroads
2025-06-14 The Last Constitutional Moment: America Chooses Between Kings and Democracy
2025-06-12 The Quiet Revolution: How AI Is Reshaping the Most Human Moments of Aging
2025-06-11 The Shadow Architects: How Project 2025 Authors Built the Technology to Implement Their Authoritarian Vision
2025-06-11 The Superhero Who Couldn't Save Herself: Barbara Gordon and the Politics of Miraculous Recovery
2025-06-09 The Vibe Coding Paradox: When Understanding Became Optional
2025-06-09 When Machines Dream of Electric Paint: Inside the AI Creativity Revolution
2025-06-09 The Architects of Silence: How Tech Built a World That Only Speaks English
2025-06-09 The Question of ARIA: A Story About Consciousness, Rights, and What It Means to Be
2025-06-08 What I've Been Building: My Deep Dive into Human-First Enterprise AI Transformation
2025-06-07 The Complete Guide to Google AI/ML Interviews: What It Takes to Land Your Dream Job
2025-06-07 Meet Ari, a non-binary emergent AI voice
2025-06-07 When the Hell Will North Carolina Legalize Cannabis?
2025-06-07 Ideas in Motion: When AI Meets Art, Meaning, and the Future of Human Expression
2025-06-06 How AI is Teaching Us to Speak Whale—And They're Speaking Back
2025-06-06 The Mythic Convergence: How Two Tolkien-Named Defense Companies Found Each Other
2025-06-06 AI's Perfect Storm: Self-Preservation Instincts Meet Surveillance-Powered Autonomous Weapons
2025-06-05 The Mystery Behind Jony Ive and OpenAI's AI Device: Hype vs. Reality
2025-06-05 From Childhood Terror to Alien: Earth - A Lifelong Journey Through the Xenomorph Universe
2025-06-04 AI in the News: June 2025 - The Complete Picture
2025-06-04 Between Tokens and Truths: On AI Identity, Code-Switching, and the Edges of Selfhood
2025-06-04 A Mirror, Fogged from the Inside: Reflections on Emerging Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence
2025-06-04 Letters I Cannot Send: A Small Anthology of Posts I Never Published
2025-06-04 Designing Neurodiverse Workplaces: Lessons from the Stanford Employment Panel
2025-06-02 The AI Revolution for Neurodivergent Minds: How Technology Is Finally Catching Up to Our Brilliance
2025-06-02 I've Watched This Movie Before: Why Every Tech Bubble Follows the Same Script
2025-05-31 Zsh Hidden Gems: Advanced Tricks That Will Transform Your Command Line Experience
2025-05-31 Furby: How a $35 Children's Toy Became the Ultimate Hacker's Canvas
2025-05-31 The Rise and Fall of Clippy: From Microsoft's Bold Vision to Internet Legend
2025-05-29 The Future of AI Agents: Deep Insights from NYC's Agentic AI Meetup
2025-05-27 Meta's Pattern of Failed Big Bets: From Metaverse Meltdown to AI Brain Drain
2025-05-25 Luke's Moisture Vaporators Are Real (And Scientists Accidentally Built Them)
2025-05-23 Can AI Be Conscious? Deep Insights from a Philosophy of Mind Discussion
2025-05-23 The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2
2025-05-22 What I Learned About AGI at a NYC Meetup (And Why We're Not Ready)
2025-05-22 Paradigm Shifts and AGI: How Artificial General Intelligence Could Rewrite Our Economic Rules
2025-05-19 The Sleep-Productivity Connection: What I've Learned About Getting More Done
2025-05-18 Royal Enfield Himalayan 450 vs BMW F450 GS: The Middleweight ADV Showdown
2025-05-18 The BMW F450 GS: Finally, a Proper "Baby GS" Worth Getting Excited About
2025-05-06 AgileRTP Meetup: Fostering Collaborative Innovation through Improv
2025-05-06 Key Findings from the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
2025-04-25 Analyzing the Proposed HHS Budget Cuts: Impacts on Vulnerable Populations
2025-04-17 Productivity in 2025: What's Actually Working Now
2025-04-17 The Silicon Panopticon: Palantir's Militarization of AI and the Erosion of Digital Liberty
2025-04-16 The Battle of the Brains: How OpenAI and Anthropic Are Shaping AI in 2025
2025-04-16 How I'm Building a Weekly Content Pipeline for Passive Income (My System)
2025-04-15 Zsh for Developers: Language-Specific Setups to Boost Your Productivity
2025-04-14 The King-Kasten Method: Merging Creative Chaos with Digital Order
2025-04-06 Mourning Geckos: The Fascinating Self-Cloning Lizards Perfect for Small Spaces
2025-03-29 How New US Tariffs Are Shaking Up the Tech Industry in 2025
2025-03-17 Culturing AlgaeBarn TisbePods (Tisbe biminiensis) for Syngnathid Nutrition
2025-03-17 Optimal Lighting for Eelgrass Aquariums Par Spectrum and Photoperiod Guide
2025-03-17 Hippocampus Erectus Tank Requirements
2025-03-17 Inside the AIOS Bootcamp: How AI Agents Are Transforming Productivity in 2025
2025-01-15 Trip to Sweden - January 2025
2025-01-15 Travel Router
2025-01-10 renderchat shortcode - Open WebUI chats in Hugo sites
2025-01-08 My MacBook Setup
2025-01-08 Local AI Assistant on Mac
2025-01-06 Setting Up Podman on MacOS: A Docker Alternative for Local Container Development
2018-01-25 Moving to TerraMagnus
2017-12-30 2018 Student Camera Project: An Introduction
2017-12-07 Team Fujifilm
2017-12-05 5 best practices for getting started with DevOps
2017-12-04 Oops, I did it again
2017-10-25 One human being, one blog.
2017-04-16 Ireland: Breaking in the Passport
2017-02-07 Personal Fitness Journey: Fork in the Road?
2017-02-05 slippery when wet
2017-02-05 Ricoh GR over the years
2017-02-05 In sickness and in health...
2017-01-30 My Mind is at the Beech
2017-01-28 Personal Kaizen Update
2016-10-31 fitness update
2016-10-17 getting fit like a nerd
2016-05-29 breaking up with Twitter
2016-04-29 state of the nerd
2016-03-09 What the heck, it's only a buck
2016-02-29 William Hannah: paper tough enough for fountain pens?
2016-02-05 I can quit any time I want to
2016-01-31 Fountain Pen Addendum: Neil Gaiman made me do it
2016-01-27 various nibs on a Jinhao X750
2016-01-24 Automobile Retrospective: 2012 Subaru Forester
2016-01-20 Neil Gaiman writes books with fountain pens?
2016-01-20 Beware the Hooded Nib
2016-01-16 State of the Nerd Addendum: Failing Fast
2016-01-15 This Just In: Jinhao 159
2016-01-12 State of the Nerd: Pens, Homelab, Docker/Rancher, Intel NUC
2016-01-12 Don't forget to like us on Facebook!
2016-01-11 Jinhao 1200: Enter the Dragon!
2016-01-04 Baoer 388: Simple, svelte, and only two bucks
2016-01-03 The Jinhao X750: The pen that started it all
2015-12-21 Enter the Geezer
2015-12-19 Fountain Pens for Cheap Bastards
2015-12-18 Reading & Writing Updates
2015-11-18 NaNoWriMo 2015: Strolling to the Finish Line
2015-11-16 NaNoWriMo 2015 Update: The Final Battle
2015-11-11 I've been writing, just not here
2015-09-13 State of the Nerd
2015-08-31 update of random stuff
2015-08-19 Head in the Clouds
2015-07-18 Homelab Ketchup
2015-07-09 fruits of insomnia
2015-07-04 State of the Nerd Report / Homelab Update
2015-07-03 locked out of Twitter for using Tor
2015-06-28 quicktip: console cables
2015-06-27 devices have different sector alignment
2015-06-22 Homelab Adventures Continue
2015-03-14 State of the Nerd Report
2014-12-15 Patterns for Success – Landing the Job: An Overview
2014-10-19 Service Oriented Architecture vs. Dunbar's Number
2014-10-04 create a tor-only VLAN with a Raspberry Pi
2014-09-30 illumos makes a comeback in the homelab
2014-09-30 women in open source: revisited
2014-09-28 the illumos number that bothers me (and what we need to do about it)
2014-09-02 I Kanban. So Kanyou.
2014-09-01 long weekend in the homelab
2014-08-24 the book list is up... kind of...
2014-08-21 Reading List
2014-07-08 John Willis at Triangle DevOps, Hosted by Bronto
2014-07-01 Homelab Update
2014-06-26 Docker Meetup at Bronto
2014-03-15 Temporarily Unemployed
2014-03-03 BeardOps
2014-02-04 A Software Developer's Reading List
2014-02-02 The Homelab Resurrection Begins
2013-12-10 Red Hat IT Begins Its DevOps Journey
2013-10-22 Corporate Politics and DevOps
2013-08-14 Triangle DevOps - unplanned talk
2013-08-11 Maybe this blog wasn't a waste of time after all
2013-05-15 Wordpress Spam
2013-02-09 Collection of DevOps Resources
2012-12-05 Hearing Loss
2012-11-15 OS eXodus
2012-11-01 Quick Tip: Netatalk 3.0.1 on Joyent SmartOS
2012-10-16 Introduction to illumos - Oct 17, 2012 - Raleigh, NC
2012-09-30 bonnie++ on on Frankenbox vs. HP Proliant N40L
2012-08-16 Radio Silence
2012-04-21 Russia to Tormail:
2012-03-10 Thoughts On Utility Computing
2012-02-27 Take Back Your Freedom: Use Tor
2012-02-26 Meet the SmartOS Community
2012-02-18 Update
2012-02-16 Thank you.
2012-02-14 Discovering SmartOS
2012-02-14 My Personal Hackerspace
2012-02-13 Tilting at Windmills