A photographer's holy trinity is the three lenses they will be buried with. You can cover a lot of ground with three lenses from a focal length perspective, or choose to completely disregard reason and become a bokeh whore while making some tough financial decisions. With that in mind, my weapon of choice is the Sony A7, which I won't be getting into for this article. If you know, you know. read more →
What is the marginal cost of happiness? Each new dependency, each build tool or abstraction, quietly claims a piece of your agency. These decisions are not free. Over time, the stack you build begins to shape the way you think. It narrows your options, calcifies your patterns, and it replaces expression with compliance. The more you add, the less you notice what has been lost. The code becomes a weight. At some point, you forget what you were trying to say. When is it enough? What is sick funny? read more →
Filling the empty void, or at least the space where my unused light switch used to be in the living room. I decided to yank it out and replace it with something more honest: an e-ink display embedded inside the switch box. Another screen in my life sounded like a good idea. Build first; provide purpose later. read more →
This project isn’t new. I built it almost a decade ago, a simple CLI tool to send my friends pennies through Venmo, each with an unsolicited cat fact. I wrote it mostly to amuse myself, and maybe irritate them a little. What surprised me is that it still works. The API hasn’t changed. The tokens still authenticate. The endpoints, still listening. read more →