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2026-02-17 Systems The Dependency You Didn't Know You Had npm, supply-chain 3,200 w.

2026-02-09 Tools Fourteen Months with Dokploy: An Honest Assessment dokploy, deploy 4,100 w.

2026-01-28 Craft On Writing Config Files That Last yaml, config, ops 2,400 w.

2026-01-21 Personal Teaching My Daughter to Debug family, education 1,800 w.

2026-01-14 Field Notes Observations from a Kubernetes Migration Gone Sideways k8s, devops 5,600 w.

2026-01-08 Systems The Three-Layer SSH Config Nobody Teaches You ssh, git, auth 2,900 w.

2026-01-05 Craft Naming Things: A Practitioner's Incomplete Guide naming, patterns 3,700 w.

2026-01-03 Tools Git Worktrees for the Perpetually Context-Switching git, workflow 2,200 w.

2026-01-02 Field Notes Client Work and the Art of Saying No Gently consulting, soft-skills 1,600 w.

2026-01-01 Personal Annual Review: What Shipped, What Didn't, What Matters review, reflection 4,500 w.

2025-12-19 Systems Wildcard DNS Is Not the Shortcut You Think It Is dns, networking 3,400 w.

2025-11-30 Craft The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Convention Over Configuration architecture, patterns 2,800 w.

2025-11-12 Tools Building a Personal CLI Toolkit with Node.js node, cli, tooling 4,200 w.

2025-10-28 Field Notes What I Learned Debugging a Production Outage at 2 AM incident, postgres 3,100 w.

2025-10-05 Personal Forty-Something and Still Refactoring career, reflection 1,900 w.

2025-09-17 Systems Environment Variables Considered Harmful (Sometimes) env, security, config 2,600 w.

2025-08-22 Craft Why I Still Write Plain Makefiles in 2025 make, build, unix 2,100 w.

2025-07-14 Tools Sidecar, Tmux, and the Terminal-First Workflow terminal, tmux, tui 3,500 w.

2025-06-03 Systems Designing a Multi-Org Git Identity System git, ssh, identity 4,800 w.

2025-05-18 Field Notes Notes from a Week of Pair Programming with AI ai, llm, workflow 2,300 w.

2025-04-09 Craft The Case for Boring Technology (Revisited) architecture, simplicity 1,700 w.

2025-03-15 Personal What Running Taught Me About Shipping Software fitness, metaphor 2,900 w.

2025-02-21 Tools Docker Compose Patterns for Local Development docker, compose, dev 3,300 w.

2025-01-30 Systems Zero-Downtime Deploys on a Single VPS deploy, vps, nginx 2,400 w.

2024-12-08 Craft Error Messages Are User Interface ux, errors, api 3,600 w.

2024-11-14 Field Notes Migrating 200 Repos: A Post-Mortem git, migration 5,200 w.

2024-10-22 Tools Why I Switched from VS Code to Neovim (and Back) editor, vim, vscode 2,800 w.

2024-09-05 Systems The Quiet Elegance of Reverse Proxies nginx, traefik, proxy 3,100 w.

2024-07-19 Personal Lessons from Building a Treehouse making, woodwork 1,500 w.

2024-06-01 Craft Readme-Driven Development docs, process 2,700 w.

2024-04-12 Field Notes Consulting Diary: Week One at a Legacy Codebase consulting, legacy 4,100 w.

2024-02-28 Tools jq Is the Swiss Army Knife You're Not Using jq, json, cli 1,900 w.

2024-01-15 Systems A Taxonomy of Configuration Drift iac, drift, ops 3,800 w.

2023-11-20 Craft On Technical Debt and Honest Conversations debt, team, culture 2,500 w.

2023-09-08 Tools Automating Everything with Shell Scripts and Cron bash, cron, automation 3,200 w.

2023-07-14 Personal The Summer I Learned to Slow Down burnout, health 2,100 w.

2023-05-02 Systems Understanding Node.js Event Loop Starvation node, performance 4,400 w.

2023-03-11 Field Notes Why That Rewrite Failed (and What We Did Next) rewrite, postmortem 2,800 w.

2023-01-22 Craft The Art of the Useful Comment code, documentation 1,800 w.