By 2021, the rest of the world had moved through two entire generations of PHP without this server noticing. It was still running 5.4 on RHEL 6, like handing someone […]

Three-quarters of a mile. Every morning. Or a shuttle that showed up whenever it felt like it. For two to three years, I counted down the months like a kid […]

I spent two weeks convinced I’d broken something. Turned out the actual problem was managers, more than one, leaving employees’ performance reviews open on their screens, unattended, for hours. The […]

Nine Anthropic certifications sit in a folder on this site. Twenty-one public repos sit on GitHub, spanning Yii, Laravel, React, Django, Ruby on Rails, a handful of API scrapers, five […]

Ever wonder what the actual weather is? I don’t mean the vague, hand-wavy forecast you get from “The Weather Channel,” AccuWeather, WeatherBug, or whichever app currently owns your home screen. […]

Square dancing might seem like an unusual addition to a tech-heavy life, but it’s become one of my anchors. Every week — sometimes two or even three times — I […]

Cooking has always been more than just preparing food for me. Some recipes are quick fixes, and some are meditative journeys. This summer, I returned to one of my all-time […]

I’ve always loved being near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada — the way the morning sunlight filters through the trees, the smell of pine and damp earth after a […]