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I wanted a wireless keyboard and ended up finding the factory behind half the brands on AliExpress.
I boilerplated too close to the sun and ended up with a new way to build web apps. And somehow it's not a framework.
GitHub is bad and the only alternative I actually want is gated by Bluesky moderation. So nothing.
I added a blog to my portfolio site. Astro got out of the way entirely. That's rarer than it sounds.
I bought a Lenovo V14 out of desperation, built a desktop two years later, and somehow the laptop is still working — it just changed jobs.
AWS has a free tier. It is weirder, more generous, and more dangerous than you think. Three years of building Lambda backends taught me how to make it sing.
I asked Claude to take the RAADS-R. I expected a polite refusal. I did not get a polite refusal.
My first dev post blew up. Great! A term that didn't exist became the definition because I put two words together. AI summaries is doing something new (and slightly alarming) to search.
After looking at SOPS, Parameter Store, Vault: Infisical might be the homelabber's best friend.
Homelabbing is genuinely fun. I want to say that upfront, before I tell you about the time I locked myself out of my own infrastructure for an afternoon.