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🤓 The Technical: The day started with me waking up two minutes before standup, which is exactly the...

🤓 The Technical: Day job started strong - fixed a merge conflict in a PR before my first stand-up, and...

🤓 The Technical: Meeting-heavy day at the day job - a kickoff, a one-on-one, and a backlog grooming...

🤓 The Technical: Busy day, no fires, which is the good kind of busy. At the day job I got pulled into...

🤓 The Technical: Took a sick day. The honest version is it was a mental health day, and as far as I'm...

🤓 The Technical: Finally heard back from QA, so the day job had a fresh batch of work waiting on me....

💧 The DropletsRoutine Sunday maintenance, run a day late - packages updated and reboots applied across...

🤓 The Technical: Lighter work day, which I didn't mind after wondering lately whether the assignments...

💧 The DropletsRoutine Sunday maintenance, plus some runbook hardening that came out of a real near-miss....

🤓 The Technical: Set the alarm for 7 AM to knock out the training that was due this past Saturday. Logged...

🤓 The Technical: Quiet day on the work side - had a PR to submit and that was mostly it. The personal...

💧 The DropletsRoutine maintenance — system packages updated, reboots applied, no infrastructure changes....

💧 The DropletsNot a routine week. The headline was bumping the PHP Redis client extension (ext-redis)...

🤓 The Technical: The headline today is personal-project work: all four of my Symfony sites are now on...

🤓 The Technical: First day back at the day job after the long weekend, and the Adobe Commerce B2B push...

💧 The DropletsRoutine maintenance — system packages updated, reboots applied. No infrastructure changes...

🤓 The TechnicalToday was a tale of two projects. On the day job side, I spent the morning tracking down...

🤓 The Technical: Quiet day at the job — PR's been sitting out there with both reviewers assigned, neither...

🤓 The Technical: At the day job, I was mostly blocked — the lead is out for Victoria Day (yes, I looked...

💧 The DropletsRoutine maintenance week — system packages updated, reboots applied. No infrastructure...

The DropletsRoutine system updates and reboots across all three droplets — LEMP 1, LEMP 2, and Node.js...

🤓 The Technical: I took the day off from work — the day job involves complex Magento environments, and...

The DropletsRoutine system updates and reboots across all three droplets — LEMP 1, LEMP 2, and Node.js...

🤓 The Technical: Reviewed and submitted a PR today on the Magento side — built out an inventory history...

Dev Log 04.29.2026: QA Deep-Dives, Strixhaven, and a Wheel I'm Proud OfThe Technical: Spent most of...

The Technical: Resolved a high-priority staging site issue today — emergency ticket landed first thing,...

The SetupThis was the first weekly deployment from the new rig. Every project got a small commit to...

I missed the daily logs all week, so this one's a recap.The Technical: Steady ticket flow on the emergency...

The DropletsBehind-the-scenes infrastructure milestone this week: the second (and final) LAMP droplet...

The Technical: Honestly? Not much code today, and I made peace with that. The brain was in power saver...

The Technical: Gave a tech talk to the team today — got a "it was good," which in that context is a...

The Technical: Still deep in the emergency B2B project — today's focus was adding history logging to...

If you've played Magic: the Gathering for any length of time, you've probably had questions you couldn't...

Yep. Just three times. In a movie literally named after its main character — who is also literally in...

The Technical: Wrapped up a couple of tickets on the emergency project and got through some more PR...

The Technical: PR reviews and customization work on the emergency project today. The kind of day where...

The ServerRoutine maintenance tonight on the droplet — system packages updated, reboot applied. Nothing...

The Technical: Another day on the emergency project, plus some time studying Claude Code. Starting to...

The Technical: Back at it on the B2B implementation — dashboard improvements and bug fixes today. Nothing...

The Technical: The day job has me deep in a Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce B2B implementation that's in...

The Technical: Today was a study in communication overhead. Being a Senior Dev on an "emergency" project...

The Technical: Today’s "Senior Dev Rescue" involves more than just a standard IDE refactor. I’m using...

There is a hollow ache in the quiet moments of my life — a deep, persistent loneliness. Like so many...

Hello, everyone! Uncle Versace here with some exciting news. As some of you may know, these projects...

Alright, film fanatics and fellow code connoisseurs! Uncle Versace here, kicking off a brand new chapter...

I remember a time, not so long ago, when I believed love was an endless well. It was a beautiful, comforting...

Alright, fellow spell slingers! Uncle Versace here, dropping in with some lukewarm takes from the world...

I relearned something today that I'd known before, but today I learned the reason why, which I don't...

On the anniversary of her mother's death, Max goes to see one of her old B-horror movies. But when Max...

When a bunch of nerds find out their friend is dying, they decide to take a road trip across the country...

As I've been watching movies and adding them to my movie website (They Said It!), I realized I haven't...

I made some updates to my movie web app, They Said It! Some were behind the scenes improvements like...

When his teenage daughter goes missing, a single father becomes desperate for answers. In order to track...

What do you do when you need to assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia? Well, you brainwash someone...

When a young journalism student is confronted by the spirit of a dead journalist, she's tasked with...

What do you do when you're in your late 20s living a modest but happy life - you don't smoke, you don't...

I have feelings for someone who doesn't have the same feelings for me, and it sucks. It's also one of...

Silly, sometimes stupid, but mostly just hysterical, comes a comedy about 3 high school friends who...

From the writer/director of In Bruges, comes a dark comedy about grief, guilt, redemption, and billboards...Okay,...

Unrequited love sucks. Like, it always sucks. But there's something to me that's especially hard about...

I keep forgetting I made this blog and don't have to restrict myself to Twitter's 280 characters when...

TL;DR I'm going to be less active on Twitch. I don't really market my blog, so I don't know if literally...

I made a personal home page. And a blog. Because I have thoughts. And rants. And things to say. Things...