I personally own well over 100 domains. A select few of them are actually live. The rest? Parked, forwarded, or none of the above. These domains cost me real money. For whatever reason, I've chosen to be loyal to a domain registrar that doesn't have the best prices, unless you jump through some weird hoops with their discount program. I've been thinking a lot about the cost of things, especially the things that realistically have no value in my life. Owning a bunch of domains is a flex of my own ignorance in a lot of ways, and that doesn't spark joy. The majority of my unused domains fall…
From humble beginnings in eLearning, I have somehow spent the majority of my career thus far in or around email. Not to flex, but I am an email expert. Cold, hot, and everything in between. I'm one of very few people on the planet that can say they've personally been responsible for sending 10,000,000 emails a day. I've recently nurtured an email-infrastructure-as-a-service platform from the ground up to over 100,000 monthly sends. I know nuances about SMTP and IMAP servers that would give you nightmares. So you know after a long day, the last thing I want to do is open an email client. That…
As a child, you drink Kool-Aid. Then somewhere along the way, you stop. Maybe you switch to sugary sodas your parents never let you drink. Realizing it's just sugar water, you switch to a healthier option. For me, it took a little longer to grow up. I had the Kool-Aid jug and matching cups, and even the cycling hat which I wore until the flip up brim fell off. These things brought me happiness, but I always had this unrealistic vision of saving up enough points to get a car, or whatever the actual top-tier reward was back then. My consumption of IRL Kool-Aid dwindled a bit, but it never went…
Another week, another chance to struggle with a blog topic. I just got off of a whirlwind of a couple of weeks. An 11-state road trip to get our daughter off to college. A first-time empty nester vacation. Trying as hard as possible to not open my laptop. My first week back to normalcy was less than normal. It started with a national holiday, included a ~6-hour tattoo session, and by Friday evening, I got caught up on all the loose ends that opened up along the way. The original plan was to drop a post about how I'm signing tagged releases for my agent and context library, to add some public…
The last two weeks of my life have been quite transient. More so than the time I hopped a plane to San Francisco, interviewed for 5 hours, and hopped back on a plane back to Florida the same evening. The trek started in Texas with a road trip that passed through 11 states, ending up in Rhode Island where my daughter is attending college. The weather was beautiful, but only for a moment as the next leg included a flight down to North Carolina to give Charlotte a test run. As a newly minted empty nest couple, it's time for a change. Austin was fantastic when we moved there, but since the…
I'm still on my self-hosting kick as of late, while also questioning my life choices around hosting my own git forge. The last week or so has included what appears to be a DDoS attack rather than some coordinated scraping effort by a sketchy LLM company. Open source will prevail, even if I'm being stubborn about giving in and setting up Anubis. WordPress has been its own other adventure, but this isn't meant to be a post about those security caveats. I'll save those for another week. The current dilemma is that I'm far from home, ~30 hours away up in Rhode Island. I'm sitting at Audrey's…
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