Articles
Personal thoughts and observations — mostly about how I work.
- A prompt that saves me hours splitting a wireless family plan bill I was at my wit's end as the owner of a wireless family plan — responsible for splitting the bill fairly each month as new charges came in. I was ready to tell everyone to get…
- Cursor AI use cases beyond vibe coding Most of the conversation around Cursor focuses on shipping fast with “vibe coding” to quickly ship use facing features which is addicting.
- 2026 Dev Tooling For years I wrote about treating a remote machine as my primary development environment - using a VPS for day-to-day dev, wiring up Cloud9 on a Forge server, and later pairing…
- Remote Development with Visual Studio Code + SSH I prefer to use a VPS for my development environment and have tried a variety of IDEs as mentioned in the linked article.
- Configuring AWS Cloud9 on a Laravel Forge Provisioned Server If you don’t already have a server that you would like to configure with AWS Cloud9, you should create one in Laravel Forge.
- Basic Token Based API Authentication with Laravel I recently had a need to expose an API with some very basic authentication requirements:
- iMessage Dependency Every time I go down the rabbit hole of considering a switch from iOS to Android I always back down at the last minute for one reason: iMessage.
- Using a VPS for your Dev Environment About a year ago, I transitioned my local development environment to an inexpensive VPS and haven't looked back.
- Recipe Migration for Mom If anyone is in the same situation as my mother and uses The Recipe Manager on iOS and/or macOS, the app is end of life and is not supported by the recent update of iOS 11 / macOS…
- Low-Cost Feature Packed Infrastructure This article describes a cost-effective feature-rich infrastructure. The hypothetical setup described below costs $37.50 per month + $35 per year (excluding domain costs).
- Cruise Outlook: Year in Review About one year ago, I was preparing for a cruise vacation with my wife. There are many considerations when packing for any vacation and one important variable is weather. The…