Topics on One For The Code

AI and LLMs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I use these tools daily and I am neither evangelical nor dismissive about them. Mostly I am interested in where the line sits between useful and confidently wrong, and in running as much of it as possible on my own hardware.

Engineering Craft

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fifteen years in, the things that separate a good team from a struggling one are almost never technical. These are the opinions I have arrived at, including the ones I am least sure about.

Homelab and Self-Hosting

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

My homelab has been running and evolving since 2023, managed with Ansible and Terraform rather than by hand. It is the best learning environment I have ever had, because when it breaks nobody is paging me but me.

Obsidian and Productivity

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Everything here runs on markdown files I own. Obsidian happens to be a nice window onto them, but the point is that the notes outlive whichever app I am using this year.

PHP and Laravel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

PHP has been quietly excellent for years and Laravel is the reason a lot of small teams ship at all. These are the things I keep reaching for on Laravel engagements.

TypeScript and JavaScript

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Most of my contract work is Node and TypeScript, so this is the pile that grew fastest. It runs from the fundamentals that trip everyone up at some point through to the type-level tricks I actually reach for on client work.