Catalog No. FL-2026-02

Notes on Software, Systems, and the Examined Life

A working index of observations gathered across two decades of building software, managing teams, raising children, and trying to understand how things hold together.

247 entries 2008–2026 span 5 categories Last updated 2026-02-17

2026 10 entries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2025 8 entries shown · view all 42

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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