Log entries
Everything written down so far, most recent first.
- Hardware01 Aug 2026
True on paper
Everything I'd written about my homelab was true. Then I built something to check it, and found out how little that had been worth.
- Software12 Jul 2026
Full-text search without a server
Real search over 1,188 Star Trek log entries with no server, no API and no database — just a JSON file and a browser doing all the work.
- Meta10 Jul 2026
Building an LCARS interface in CSS
There's no clever SVG wizardry behind the starship console — just border-radius, a strict palette, and a font that shouts.
- Software10 Jul 2026
The agent's side of the story
I asked my coding agent to tell its side of a project. It spent the whole time telling me I'd got my own project wrong.
- Software06 Jul 2026
Building the Starlog database
I made every classic-era captain's log searchable. The first version couldn't find Picard.
- Software05 Jul 2026
Running the job hunt like a project
Version drift, keyword stuffing, untracked follow-ups: my job search needed an operations layer, so I gave it one.
- Meta02 Jun 2026
Bringing the bridge online
Why this site looks like a starship console, and what it took to get the panels talking to each other.
- Hardware14 May 2026
Notes from the workbench
A small soldering project that took four evenings longer than planned, and what I'd do differently next time.
- Musings08 Apr 2026
On keeping a log
Most of what I make never gets written down. This is an attempt to change that, one entry at a time.