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Five years of posts, grouped into reading paths. Pick one that sounds right for the mood you're in. These are curated by hand — no algorithm, no engagement score, just what I think belongs together.

AWS, grudgingly

The cloud is fine. The cloud is also a tax on people who don't read the fine print. These are the posts where I read the fine print for you.

  1. serverless cost optimization for cheapskates
  2. aws outages PIR and Toxicity
  3. I let Claude build my serverless app and now I have questions
  4. GenAI code review
  5. A deep dive review of the AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
  6. software updates are gaslighting us

Computing history, enthusiastically

Every technology has ancestors. Some of them wore Navy uniforms and smashed assumptions for a living.

  1. Happy Birthday, Admiral Grace Hopper: The Original Bug Hunter
  2. The Edmund Fitzgerald: when Lake Superior said 'fuck around and find out'
  3. why do faxes still exist?

Food, family, weather

Not every post is about computers. Some are about stuffing, or DST, or being alive in a body that has opinions.

  1. The thing about stuffing, and also the mailman, and wait what was I saying
  2. sourdough is not a personality trait
  3. my tea has a name and it's name is ennui.
  4. dst sucks
  5. I hate the sun setting so early now.
  6. Paul Hollywood and his haunted blue eyes: a love letter to GBBO Season 9
  7. The Feta-l Oppressors of Our Time

Things I made in a browser

Modern browsers can do a staggering amount. These are small weird things I built to prove it to myself.

  1. I told Claude to build me a browser game. It actually worked.
  2. Cryptogram: Because Solving Puzzles is Better Than Debugging Production
  3. AWS Memory Match: A Card Game for Cloud Masochists

Assorted yelling

The house specialty. Affectionate profanity aimed at things that deserve it.

  1. hustle culture is a cult and LinkedIn is the megachurch
  2. password requirements are a psychological experiment
  3. bluetooth is magic that personally hates you
  4. documentation is a lie we tell ourselves
  5. you are not special (and that's okay)
  6. the million/billion confusion that keeps you voting wrong
  7. what a billion dollars actually looks like