Technology, AIIn the Era of ChatGPT and friendsIf you can no longer tell whether ChatGPT or a human wrote a piece of text, what does that do to authenticity and trust in what we read?
Technology, AIBing's great comebackMicrosoft wired ChatGPT into Bing and used the waitlist to push Bing onto millions of devices — pure marketing genius in my book.
Security, TechnologyFinding an appropriate WAF might be harder than it looksShopping for a Web Application Firewall on a small budget is rough — opaque pricing, call-for-quote tiers, and GDPR clashes with CDN offerings.
Smart Home, Hobbies, TechnologyBuilding a smart HVAC system from scratchWhen you build your own house you get to make all the decisions. That sounds great until you realize you also have to live with all of them.
Smart Home, Technology, HobbiesZigbee first, Matter later — radios for a local Home Assistant houseMy house is Wi‑Fi and Shelly end to end. When I finally add battery sensors, I still plan Zigbee first — and Matter as a buying filter, not a rip-and-replace.
Technology, AI, OpinionsDeepSeek R1 and the week the pricing story brokeWhen DeepSeek dropped R1, my first reaction was not hype — it was spreadsheet panic. The comfortable pricing story suddenly had a counterexample.
Technology, AI, CodeThe week coding assistants stopped pretending to be autocompleteClaude 3.7 Sonnet was the first time I caught myself delegating context, not lines. AI coding assistants stopped pretending to be autocomplete.
Smart Home, Technology, HobbiesHome Assistant and the local-first smart homeSmart home products love to sell you convenience. What they do not mention is that most of that convenience runs through someone else's server.
Technology, AI, Code, OpinionsVibe Coding: An Honest Take After Three Years of AI-Assisted DevelopmentThree years of AI-assisted development later, vibe coding is real. The thinking is yours, the judgment is yours — the typing was never the point.
Opinions, Code, TechnologyTraining juniors in the AI era — judgment, struggle, and why the field still needs new dataAI makes junior developers look productive on week two. If we train them for speed alone, we hollow out the next decade of engineering judgment.
Ionic, Technology, AI, Code, PersonalThree similar Ionic apps, one Nx monorepo, and a lot of AI-assisted glue workHow we merged three Ionic/Angular/Capacitor codebases into a single Nx workspace so a small team could stop maintaining the same code in three places.
Technology, Code, Firebase, Tools, PersonalPortfolio Ticker — a tiny monitor for investments scattered across brokersI had stocks and ETFs across three platforms and no single place to see them. So I built one, and left it open for anyone else to use.
Technology, Personal, OpinionsThe Fellow Aiden was the most fun I've had making coffee — I still might not buy it againThe Fellow Aiden is the most hyped filter coffee maker on the market. After a few weeks with one, the coffee is good — just not 10x-the-price good.
Personal, Technology, OpinionsOwning an EV — the parking space and the bill nobody mentionedEveryone selling you an EV talks about the driving. Nobody mentions the parking space it requires, or what it does to your electricity bill.
Tools, Technology, Code, Firebase, PersonalPortfolio Ticker four months on — ROI/yr, year returns, and a real order logLiving with Portfolio Ticker exposed the gaps — annualized ROI, calendar-year returns, and what happens when you sell. Here is what I added.
