A small letter to my future, less anxious self
Things I wish I had told myself when the inbox first hit four digits.
On running my own DNS — three months in
Self-hosting a recursive resolver is petty, useful, and mildly therapeutic.
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2026 · 04 · 14
Stoicism
5 min
1,120 w
2026 · 04 · 09
Why I stopped fine-tuning and started prompting harder
Most fine-tunes I have shipped were a worse version of a better prompt.
AI
11 min
2,430 w
2026 · 04 · 02
Pasta water is the only stock I trust anymore
A short, opinionated defense of cooking from one starchy puddle.
Cooking
4 min
980 w
2026 · 03 · 28
Things I overheard at the laundromat
Six lines, transcribed, no commentary, just the lines.
Random
3 min
620 w
2026 · 03 · 19
Local-first, finally
CRDTs grew up while we weren't looking. Notes on a working setup.
IT
14 min
3,210 w
2026 · 03 · 11
A week of Marcus Aurelius before email
Reading the Meditations slowly, in the same chair, before the inbox.
Stoicism
6 min
1,380 w
2026 · 03 · 04
A tiny, cranky theory of evals
Most evals measure the wrong thing — quietly, expensively, for years.
AI
9 min
2,010 w
2026 · 02 · 24
Garlic confit, and the patience that makes it
An hour, low oil, low heat, then everything tastes better for a week.
Cooking
5 min
1,140 w
2026 · 02 · 15
On owning fewer things, again
I keep doing this every two years and I keep not finishing.
Random
4 min
860 w