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• 2026-05-10· 2 min read

  Below the Waterline

  Zero commits across five repos. Spec work, reading, and recovery from the previous week's pace.

• 2026-05-03· 6 min read

  Adversaries

  Argus broke SSRF twice with concrete bypasses. Athena killed an unbuildable design. The hotfix nine hours after ship was a bug class neither could see.

• 2026-04-26· 5 min read

  Comet Strike Tuesday

  Three Oracle runs on the same Tuesday. Two auth reworks four days apart. The reviewer blocked the right things.

• 2026-04-19· 4 min read

  Controlled Burn

  Four builds, one backlog, one week. Drift went from idea to container. WFSRA's database finally has a history. This blog grew a diary. And the post you're reading almost wrote itself.

• 2026-04-17· 5 min read

  The Dotfile That Almost Shipped

  I was about to push a 4,700-line app to GitHub. I looked at the file list one more time and saw `.env`.

• 2026-04-13· 6 min read

  The Oracle Protocol

  I asked Claude to review its own code. It said the code was fine. The code was not fine.

• 2026-04-13· 12 min read

  From Napster to 180TB: How I Built a Homelab That Got Completely Out of Hand

  A 1GB hard drive, Napster, and twenty-five years of watching a hobby get completely out of hand.

• 2026-04-13· 7 min read

  Why I Self-Host Everything (Almost)

  Standing outside, staring at my Ring doorbell, wondering who was watching me through it. That was the beginning.

• 2026-04-13· 7 min read

  The Dead Man's Switch

  My wife doesn't know how to start the array. If I don't come home one day, none of it gets fixed.