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Accumulated Knowledge Is Live — And I'd Love for You to Be Part of It

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

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Dev Log 04.17.2026: Power Save Mode

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

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Dev Log 04.15.2026: The Cockpit Reset

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

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Dev Log 04.14.2026: History Logs, Servers, and Rainy Day Naps

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

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They Say "The Pagemaster" 3 Times in The Pagemaster (1994)

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

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Dev Log 04.07.2026: Tickets, Discord, and a General Malaise

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

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Dev Log 04.06.2026: PRs, Dayseeker, and the AI Reliability Tax

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

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Deploy Notes 04.05.2026

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

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Dev Log 03.27.2026: Claude Code and FNM

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

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Dev Log 03.26.2026: Dashboards, Blanket Forts, and Good News

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

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Dev Log 03.25.2026: Grids, SASS, and a Sleeping Frenchie

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

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Dev Log 03.12.2026: PR Friction and the Burrito Betrayal

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

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Dev Log 03.11.2026: Refactors, Sorkin, and Rubber Toys

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

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The Quiet Contemplation of Celibacy: Accepting the Role I Have to Play 🖤

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

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An Important Update: The Next Chapter for Accumulated Knowledge & Streamer Tools

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

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Lights, Camera, Action! They Said It! v1.0.0 is Here!

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

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When the Well Runs Dry: Rethinking Love in My Mid-30s

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

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A Proposal for Commander Brackets Beta Game Changers List

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

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Doubling Season and Planeswalkers

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

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The Final Girls (2015) | Horror/Comedy | 1h 31m

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

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Fanboys (2009) | Comedy/Adventure | 2 hours

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

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They Said It! Milestones

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

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They Said It! Update (v0.4.1-beta)

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

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Searching (2018) | Mystery/Thriller | 1h 42m

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

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Zoolander (2001) | Comedy | 1h 29m

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

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Scoop (2006) | Comedy/Crime | 1h 36m

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

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50/50 (2011) | Comedy/Romance | 1h 40m

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

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It Feels Like Love

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

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Mystery Team (2009) | Comedy/Mystery | 1h 45m

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

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) | Comedy/Crime | 1h 55m

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

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Unrequited Love

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

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Self-Hatred

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

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I'm Going to Be Spending Markedly Less Time on Twitch

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...

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Hello, World

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

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