EarthBound Misfit — Articles

Reflections on the debate over distilling AI models.

How I used Claude Design to explore a new direction for pardonned.com, then handed the approved sketches to Claude Code to ship — issue by issue, branch by branch.

An excercise in leveraging AI to scrape, model, and present data that is technically public but not easily accessible.

Regarding Anthropic's study about AI, coding skill development, and how it relates to individual growth.

My thoughts on agentic coding after one week of scratching my own itch.

Progress report on development of the linkblog.

Resume Driven Development - Learning new tools, technologies and scratching a personal itch.

Thoughts on netizenship, what it means to me, and some practical steps I'm taking to be a better netizen.

A Chrome extension for automatic currency conversion when browsing across countries.

App stuck in your Dynamic Island?

A guide to compiling and installing the latest Neovim version on Raspberry Pi OS for LazyVim users

A website that tracks, compares, and understands the price of everyday goods across different regions in the USA

A Step-by-Step Guide to Formatting Unix Timestamps in Postman Visualizations

Building very fast websites with Headless WordPress and Astro

How to edit PHP.ini settings like upload_max_size and upload_post_size in elastic beanstalk

How to install the latest version of Ruby on your local development environment

My personal cheatsheet on how to query data in mongodb.

A personal/secure requestbin or private pipedream or webhook.site

Tips and Tricks on how to debug WordPress sites

How to install AWS CLI version 2 on Raspberry Pi 4"

A cheatsheet/quick-reference on how to use the AWS CLI

How to use the find command, to make your life easier on the linux or unix cli

Installing Plausible Analytics with Jekyll and Minimal Mistakes

Notes on how to setup NodeJS on a Mac, using brew and NVM to keep multiple versions installed for easy testing

How to get around anti ad-block detection on sites that ask you to disable your ad blocker

Using environment variables and HTML Rewriter API to create a dynamic ..static.. site

Screen hacks for your Raspberry Pi

How to switch between Amazon accounts while using the aws cli

How to keep your resumé in a Markdown file, but share it in HTML or PDF format

wp cli commands that I use often when dealing with WordPress sites

How to use the Hide My Email feature in iCloud + / Monterey / iOS 15.

Using awk to get information from text files

How to configure Tailscale with Pi-hole, so you can block ads even when you're not at home.