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Everything published here, newest first.

2026

1. 27 Jun Where I landed on Claude CodeEngineering
2. 13 Jun Upgrading Laravel 11 to 13Engineering
3. 16 May Age verification is a supply-chain problemPrivacy
4. 11 Apr Treating your own PII as an attack surfacePrivacy
5. 21 Feb What encrypted email actually buys youPrivacy
6. 24 Jan Pi-hole as a parenting toolHomelab

2025

1. 15 Nov Home Assistant as the household nervous systemHomelab
2. 18 Oct Codifying a team's process into agent instructionsEngineering
3. 20 Sep Digitizing the shelvesHomelab
4. 16 Aug Running OSINT on yourselfPrivacy
5. 12 Jul Proxmox and Nextcloud, the foundationHomelab
6. 08 Mar I'm not sold on AI developer workflowsEngineering

2024

1. 07 Dec What PHP 8.4 changes about writing classesEngineering
2. 20 Jul TDD and the cost of a late answerEngineering
3. 02 Mar Arch on a 2014 MacBook ProEngineering

2023

1. 05 Dec The PHP 8.3 features I'll actually useEngineering
2. 17 Oct Upgrading MySQL 5.7 to 8.0Engineering
3. 14 Sep Gherkin is a conversation, not a test suiteEngineering
4. 30 Jun Growing a team while shipping a platformLeadership

2022

1. 31 Dec Finding out I'm good companyPersonal
2. 31 Oct The electronics behind motion-sensing Halloween decorationsElectronics
3. 22 Jun Internet Explorer is finally retiredEngineering
4. 28 Apr The payment package I keep wishing existedEngineering
5. 01 Jan Beginning againPersonal

2021

1. 05 Dec A year of small projectsPersonal

2020

1. 26 Nov What PHP 8.0 changes for Laravel developersEngineering
2. 12 May Raspberry Pis in a K–5 classroomElectronics
3. 20 Feb Seniority is a bridge, not a levelLeadership