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2026-10-22

The Internet Is Ready. The Walls Aren’t

I’m renovating the upstairs, so I ran an Ethernet cable to get the network ready for an access point and the computers. Wiring up the outlets took me back to technical school, except this time I didn’t need a punch-down tool. The network already works. The walls aren’t there yet.

2026-10-19

Migrating from Perseus and Sycamore to Leptos

The maintainer said Perseus isn't a priority, and questions about v0.5 went unanswered. I moved my whole frontend from Perseus and Sycamore to Leptos in a single weekend.

2026-09-07

I Wanted to Record a Metabase Tutorial. I Built a Webhook Receiver Instead.

I planned twelve episodes on Metabase, picked a sample database, and wrote every script. Then I got to the alerts episode and, instead of writing that script, spent an afternoon building a small server to make the demo look good on camera.

2026-07-21

The One-Line Change That Became a Refactor

I wanted to update my job title. That meant editing a TOML file and rebuilding the whole site, which annoyed me enough to move all the content into SQLite - and along the way I found out the thing I set out to optimize wasn't the slow part.

2026-07-20

Three Months of Silence: A New Job, a Semester, and an Agency I Never Started

The last post here is dated April 26. It's July. In between there was a job change, a master's semester, and a business idea I researched into the ground before writing a single line of code.

2026-04-26

How Metabase Saved Me From Endless Data Requests

The story of how introducing Metabase to our company stopped the constant stream of "can you fetch this data from the database" requests and opened doors to smart automation with n8n.